Michael Hall
@humberlevels.bsky.social
Theatre Lighting professional. Interested in the arts, growing, cooking and eating vegetarian food. Public transport user, serious about infra structure past and present. A Green, Leftie ,Yorkshireman , still proudly European.
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Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
January 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
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1930s suburban houses in Middlesex tickle your interest? An album of adverts from the c.1936 County Handbook showing the spread of Metroland & beyond #architecture #housing #1930s #suburbs @c20society.bsky.social @timenw.bsky.social
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCFpAh
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCFpAh
1930s suburban Middlesex homes
Adverts from the c.1936 Middlesex County Handbook showing builders, developers and estate agents.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:55 PM
1930s suburban houses in Middlesex tickle your interest? An album of adverts from the c.1936 County Handbook showing the spread of Metroland & beyond #architecture #housing #1930s #suburbs @c20society.bsky.social @timenw.bsky.social
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCFpAh
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCFpAh
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Manchester Ship Canal, a 36-mile waterway linking the city to the Mersey estuary, opened for traffic on this day 1894. Eventually Manchester became Britain’s third busiest port. (Punch cartoon ridiculing the idea)
January 1, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Manchester Ship Canal, a 36-mile waterway linking the city to the Mersey estuary, opened for traffic on this day 1894. Eventually Manchester became Britain’s third busiest port. (Punch cartoon ridiculing the idea)
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do you remember or know of socialist historian Eric Hobsbawm? Christmas University Challenge teams on 29th December didn't
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University Challenge Christmas 2025. Alumni Teams had never heard of Eric Hobsbawm
The University Challenge Christmas series, consisting of teams of Alumni, on Monday 29th December featured St Hilda’s Oxford and Edinburgh Amol Rajan asked who the joint author (with Terence …
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December 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
do you remember or know of socialist historian Eric Hobsbawm? Christmas University Challenge teams on 29th December didn't
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@lumilyon.bsky.social
Beautiful!!
Beautiful!!
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
@lumilyon.bsky.social
Beautiful!!
Beautiful!!
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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It looks like a #ChristmasParty to me @arascot.bsky.social A 1954 advert with the whole of the Schweppe family around the Schweppervescent table ready to party! Artwork by Sheila Robinson of the Great Bardfield Artists group in Essex. #ArchiveAdvertCalendar
flic.kr/p/2iUiKAn
flic.kr/p/2iUiKAn
December 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It looks like a #ChristmasParty to me @arascot.bsky.social A 1954 advert with the whole of the Schweppe family around the Schweppervescent table ready to party! Artwork by Sheila Robinson of the Great Bardfield Artists group in Essex. #ArchiveAdvertCalendar
flic.kr/p/2iUiKAn
flic.kr/p/2iUiKAn
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Lincolnshire Gothic
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Lincolnshire Gothic
December 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Happy 45th birthday to Sandinista by The Clash
▶️🔊 open.spotify.com/album/2UxN3U...
▶️🔊 open.spotify.com/album/2UxN3U...
December 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Happy 45th birthday to Sandinista by The Clash
▶️🔊 open.spotify.com/album/2UxN3U...
▶️🔊 open.spotify.com/album/2UxN3U...
Me too 😂
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Reposted by Michael Hall
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
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[to the tune of Eleanor Rigby]
Jonathan Gullis
Studies his shorts on the train with a sense of unease
Too much Febreze
Jonathan Gullis
Studies his shorts on the train with a sense of unease
Too much Febreze
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
[to the tune of Eleanor Rigby]
Jonathan Gullis
Studies his shorts on the train with a sense of unease
Too much Febreze
Jonathan Gullis
Studies his shorts on the train with a sense of unease
Too much Febreze
First anniversary on Bluesky. Hundredth post!
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
First anniversary on Bluesky. Hundredth post!
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃
October 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃
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Railbus at the platform at the long closed station at Cirencester Town. An exhibition in the rarely-opened station building, its interior under heavy refurbishment, tea, coffee, biscuits. Nothing not to like - just today and Sunday.
A timetable on display too. Kemble - Cirencester: 11 minutes.
A timetable on display too. Kemble - Cirencester: 11 minutes.
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Railbus at the platform at the long closed station at Cirencester Town. An exhibition in the rarely-opened station building, its interior under heavy refurbishment, tea, coffee, biscuits. Nothing not to like - just today and Sunday.
A timetable on display too. Kemble - Cirencester: 11 minutes.
A timetable on display too. Kemble - Cirencester: 11 minutes.
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A rare Railbus built in 1958 which is currently being restored returns to Cirencester station which closed in 1964. 👇
BBC News - Railbus returns to Cirencester 61 years after station closure - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Railbus returns to Cirencester 61 years after station closure - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Railbus returns to Cirencester 61 years after station closure
The railbus was built as a British Rail experiment to serve Cirencester, working until 1964.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A rare Railbus built in 1958 which is currently being restored returns to Cirencester station which closed in 1964. 👇
BBC News - Railbus returns to Cirencester 61 years after station closure - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Railbus returns to Cirencester 61 years after station closure - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#OnThisDay 8 years ago the new Abbey Wood station was opened in prepartion for the Elizabeth Line's opening (which transpired to be another 5 years away!). A typically brilliant capture of the new building by the wonderfully talented @tubemapper.bsky.social buff.ly/bpKPEGm
October 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Rare win for public history! 😉
FT columnist Janan Ganesh recently wrote of his conversion to the 'Great Man' theory of history - but only a minority agree
-History is primarily shaped by major figures: 27%
-Primarily shaped by broad social / economic / cultural / tech changes: 51%
yougov.co.uk/topics/enter...
-History is primarily shaped by major figures: 27%
-Primarily shaped by broad social / economic / cultural / tech changes: 51%
yougov.co.uk/topics/enter...
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Rare win for public history! 😉
@lumilyon.bsky.social
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
@lumilyon.bsky.social
@lumilyon.bsky.social
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
@lumilyon.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM