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History, London, and Beyond [All pictures my own unless cited]

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 19d

Record Room, College of Arms, London

#library #libraries #heraldry

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 1d

Poor Box, Barts, London

ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 3d

Badger action in Hertfordshire for #NationalBadgerDay

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 4d

Good to have a few strings to your bow

Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 4d

From
#DocklandsMuseum #LondonDead exhibition #executioner to
#HerMajesty

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Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 5d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 11d

May need a spot of oil

Rusting machinery, South Downs of England

ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 12d

Hey diddle diddle

Hanging sign of a cat playing a fiddle, Lombard Street, City of London. He’s having to play it more like a cello. Because he’s a cat.

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 12d

Some sort of viewing arrangement in a theatre box??

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 13d

Popped into Morville Church, Shropshire on the way back from Bridgnorth for a dose of some early Norman architecture and to see the fab font with its ‘green man’ style heads. I did a quick #lidar scan with the phone so you can give it a twirl & have a look… skfb.ly/pBBoP

Morville Church Font - Download Free 3D model by Mark Walters (@markwalters)

Early Norman period baptismal font circa 1118 inside Morville Church, Shropshire. Carved from limestone probably derived from Wenlock Edge 📍 Bridgnorth, England - Morville Church Font - Download Free...

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 14d

The White Lion in Lewes, despite the company of nesting birds, seems sad his pub was demolished in 1937. More so, perhaps, when he learns he’s a replica, his C18 original now in the Town Hall.

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 15d

Lovely. And you timed the light beautifully.

ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 15d

Box pews throughout, and commandment boards in German: the remarkably intact interior of St George's German Lutheran Church in Whitechapel.

#woodensday #london

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 16d

Red kites are supposed to have been a thorough pest on old London Bridge, as I recall? And of course (black) kites are still the same in places like Delhi, so..

ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 16d

Hoist with his own canard

Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 16d

Clearing out my #photos. Haven’t kept ghosts gem! #nature #news

ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 16d

How was it?

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 17d

Bronze & enamel lectern by Gilbert Bayes in the Savoy Chapel, memorial to Laurence (son of Henry) Irving who drowned with 1000 others when the Empress of Ireland sank off Canada in 1914. Its captain Henry Kendall, on his prior ship, sent the radio message that led to Dr Crippen's arrest.

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 17d

especially the little one

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ID @chuffnell.bsky.social · 17d

Magnus Volk at St Wulfran, Ovingdean. Inventor of Volk's Electric Railway in Brighton, the world's oldest still-operating electric railway, and the wonderful if short-lived Brighton & Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway that ran through the sea on stilts. At low tide you can still see sleepers.