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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 32m

Two more shows on Emma Pollock’s first tour in almost a decade, Aberdeen tonight and a Glasgow homecoming gig tomorrow which’ll be sensational. New album Begging The Night To Take Hold is wonderful, while here’s the classic Paper and Glue from @thelexingtonlondon.bsky.social
October 19 #EmmaPollock

matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 2d

Last call for the Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk The House at Tate Modern which ends today. I would imagine it’ll be pretty busy #DoHoSuh

matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 2d

Sunny but cold afternoon at Hornchurch Stadium as unbeaten Urchins go back to the top of National League South after a 2-1 win over midtable Hampton & Richmond Borough, with a raucous 758 crowd. The first Hornchurch goal was scored by Angelo Balanta, 35, once of QPR, the best player on the pitch.

Sunny but autumnal afternoon at Hornchurch Stadium as the unbeaten Urchins moved back to the top of the National League South with a 2-1 win over midtable Hampton & Richmond Borough, with a raucous 758 crowd. The first Hornchurch goal was scored by Angelo Balanta, once of QPR and the the best player on the pitch aged 35. Early days but on this evidence the Urchins could be in the National League next season.

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 2d

1 of London’s 9 remaining windmills. “Upminster Windmill was built for James Nokes, a local farmer, in 1803. It is a Grade II* listed building and in terms of quality, completeness and significance it is widely considered to be amongst the very best remaining English smock mills.” #UpminsterWindmill

Upminster Windmill, apparently one of nine remaining in London. Now owned by the London Borough of Havering and managed by the Friends of Upminster Windmill. They say: “Upminster Windmill was built for James Nokes, a local farmer, in 1803. It is a Grade II* listed building and in terms of quality, completeness and significance it is widely considered to be amongst the very best remaining English smock mills.”

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 3d

Kew Gardens Tree of the (Belated) Day 7: Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia, the first North American tree introduced to Europe, in the early 17th century.
Planted in 1762, a survivor from Kew's original 5 acre arboretum and one of 5 Old Lions which remain. It survived a lightning strike in 2010.

Kew Gardens

Remarkable Trees trail

Black locust 7

The black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) was the first North American tree to be introduced to Europe, in the early 17th century.

This tree, planted in 1762, is a survivor from Kew's original five acre arboretum, which was developed by Princess Augusta (1719-1772). Today, the Arboretum spans most of Kew's impressive 326 acres. This black locust is one of the five trees referred to as the Old Lions - the trees which remain from the original five-acre planting.

This tree has thrived at Kew for over 250 years, even surviving a lightning strike in 2010 which removed much of its core. It is now held together by steel bands.Despite this, it still flowers and its hollows provide prime accommodation for nesting ducks.

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 4d

#WestHamUnitedvLeedsUnited

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t get to Swell Maps at the Lexington in that north London tonight so here’s a snippet of Jowe Head and the Eternal Trinity (Catherine Gerbrands and Ravi Low-Beer) with Luke Haines at the Resonance FM fundraiser at the same venue a few weeks back #JoweHead

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 4d

It’s taken time to process just how bad the @westham defeat to Brentford was on Monday, but this window display at a nearby pub sums it up perfectly. See also two injured players being ignored for ages. Will it get even worse at Elland Road tonight? I think we all know the answer #WestHamNightmare

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 4d

The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk The House at Tate Modern ends on Sunday. I saw some of these works at his 2017 @victoriamirogallery Passage/s show and he’s become very popular since. He’s obsessed with the idea of home, important for all yet perhaps under represented as a theme in the arts.

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 5d

For our Autumn edition, Granta goes to Modi’s India.

The issue launches on Thursday November 6th.

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 5d

So sad to hear Dave Ball has died, aged 66, peacefully at his London home. The Grid, producer and remixer but best known as half of Soft Cell, one of the all time great synth pop duos. I got perhaps the last ticket to see them at their huge O2 show in September 2018 and it was everything I’d hoped.

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 9d

Fascination Zollverein by Thomas Stachelhaus is extended to November 2, for those who can visit Essen. 65 large format images of the preservation of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in the coking plant’s mixing plant: “Visitors thus experience industrial history right where it was actually written.”

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 9d

Two images by Olivia Arthur from the project Summertime, taken on a warm July day in Margate. Part of Magnum: A World In Color at FUJIKINA London, which has now ended. They were presented alongside pictures from the Magnum archive illustrating seaside resorts around Britain #Magnum

matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 10d

For those wanting more gritty industrial realism, here’s the Mixing Plant at the Zollverein Coking Plant, in Essen, Germany’s Ruhr Valley, which is vast and I think usually unused, although there’s a photo exhibition at the moment #zollverein

matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 12d

Visit Germany for fairytale castles, Bavaria, Black Forest? Zeche Zollverein, Essen, in the Ruhr, is a different aesthetic, reputedly the most beautiful coal mine in the world, once among Europe’s biggest. Closed in 1986, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the Ruhr Museum & much more #Zollverein

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 15d

Couple of days ago. Still recovering from the thrill of it all.

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 16d

Surely the world’s best rapid transit system? Worth visiting Wuppertal in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia just to ride the Schwebebahn, the suspension railway, & its floating, flying or hanging trains. Opened in 1901, it runs for 8.3 miles through the city, mostly over the Wupper River #Schwebebahn

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 17d

There were gradation ceremonies this week on the Grand Place in Brussels so Mannekin Pis was dressed appropriately #mannekinpis

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 18d

Former Arsenal striker and Germany World Cup winner Lukas Podolski has a chain of kebab shops in North Rhine-Westphalia, the “kebab of champions”, including in Düsseldorf, despite his close connections with Koln, who aren’t exactly popular there. He’s still playing aged 40 for Gornik Zabrze #Kebabs

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 19d

Jowe Head and the Eternal Trinity (Catherine Gerbrands and Ravi Low-Beer) with Luke Haines at the Resonance FM fundraiser at the Lexington a bit back. Jowe is back there on Friday October 24 with Swell Maps C21, which will be fabulous in a post punk way. The Eternal Trinity are more folk #JoweHead

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 19d

Kew Gardens Tree of the Day 6: Monkey puzzle
The monkey puzzle (Araucaria araucana) was introduced to the UK from South America in 1795.
By 1839, monkey puzzle trees were being sold throughout Europe, using propagation and growing techniques developed by horticulturists at Kew.” #KewGardens

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The monkey puzzle (Araucaria araucana) was introduced to the UK from South America in 1795.
By 1839, monkey puzzle trees were being sold throughout Europe, using propagation and growing techniques developed by horticulturists at Kew.
The common name monkey puzzle is said. to originate from the 19th-century barrister Charles
Austin. Upon seeing the tree at a dinner party, he remarked that its dense, sharp leaves would provide 'a puzzle for even a monkey to climb'.
When monkey puzzles mature, at around 100 years of age, they lose most of their lower limbs, revealing a tall, straight trunk.

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 21d

Luke Haines plays Lou Reed @thelexingtonlondon for the
Resonance FM fundraiser last week. Playing with Catherine Gerbrands, Jowe Head and Ravi Low-Beer #LukeHaines

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 21d

Kew Gardens Tree of the Day 5:
Oriental plane

“This oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) is one of Kew's Old Lions, the small collection of heritage trees which remain from the original five-acre arboretum developed by Augusta, Princess of Wales (1719-1772).” #KewGardens

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matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 21d

Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London. Doctor Who episodes were made here between 1964 and 1968 #DoctorWho

matgeorgewhu.bsky.social @matgeorgewhu.bsky.social · 22d

Kew Garden Tree of the Day 4:
Horse chestnut
“Just like people, trees are enormously diverse.
Individual trees within the same species can have different features. For example, their flower size and colour may vary.” #kewgardens

w Gardens

Remarkable Trees trail

Horse chestnut

Just like people, trees are enormously diverse.
Individual trees within the same species can have different features - for example, their flower size and colour may vary..
Aesculus indica 'Sydney Pearce' has more flower panicles per branch than typical examples of o this species. It is a cultivated variety, or cultivar, • specifically grown to preserve these physical traits.
Its spectacular flowers were first noticed growing at Kew in 1887. This specimen was grown fram seed collected from that original tree, and planted on this spot in 1928. The cultivar is named after Sydney:
Pearce, assistant curator of Kew in the 1,930s.

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