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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 3h

2/2 Esso World Cup 1970 coins: milesfromnowhere.uk/2014/06/07/e...

Esso World Cup 1970 coins

It’s official, Esso brainwashed the Welsh into supporting England at the 1970 World Cup. We should sue. As a vulnerable, easily-led, seven-year-old in Llangunnor, Carmarthen, I collected the …

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 3h

These gold tokens depicting 'Leaders of the Reformation' seen in Dunblane Museum remind me of nothing so much as the Esso World Cup coins I collected as a child...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 5h

The setting of the Garrard memorial within the chancel of the otherwise empty church at Langford, Norfolk. The church was last used in 1944. The curtains are an attempt to stop the algal growth on the memorial.

More about Langford church: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/langford/lan...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 5h

I'm just a sucker for old style family breweries like Shepherd Neame, Batemans and Adnams - and the product of all three is generally good.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 7h

2/2 A wider view of the Hood memorial at Bury, Greater Manchester, a relief of a walrus and an elephant flanking the figure of Grief with urns for Robert and George, sons of the Rector, Richard Hood. The memorial is under the tower which was rebuilt in 1842, the rest of the church in the 1870s.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 7h

Today's the feast of St Paulinus, C7 Roman missionary to England. 4th from the left in glass by Leonard Evetts, 1969, at Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, with St Aidan, St Bede, St Peter and St Cuthbert. He would have been the first Archbishop of York, but the pallium did not reach him from Rome in time.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 7h

The figure of Grief sits with two urns flanked by a walrus and an elephant at St Mary, Bury. Robert Hood was 'assassinated by an Iriquois' on the 1821 Arctic Expedition, his brother George 'on the eastern coast of Africa, perished by a fever' in 1823. The perils of Empire. #31DaysofGraves 10: urn

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 8h

The enormous 1730s memorial to Jacob Garrard, who leans proudly in a Roman toga by an urn with his son and grandson. The whole piece is shoe-horned into the tiny church at Langford, now marooned in the British Army's Norfolk battle training area. #31DaysofGraves 10: urn

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 21h

It never fails, imho. Not living in Kent, I always keep an eye out for Shepherd Neame pubs when I'm in London.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

I was intrigued by a new campaign to convince young people that there's more to Norwich than Alan Partridge, Colmans Mustard and a medieval castle, though I suspect that what many outsiders admire about the city is that it ISN'T cool:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Campaign launches to make Norwich cool to young people

Project organisers say the city

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 'Heart speaks unto heart'

Cofton Park, Birmingham, 2010. It's no exaggeration to say that Newman's writings transformed popular understanding in 19th Century England about both the Catholic Church and the Church of England.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the feast of St John Henry Newman, 19th Century English theologian, philosopher and poet. A memory of 2010, Pope Benedict presiding at his beatification mass in Cofton Park, Birmingham.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 a wider view of Jonas Walpole's 1905 pointy finger obelisk at Erpingham, Norfolk for #31DaysofGraves 9: hand.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

Going up. A pointing finger on the churchyard memorial for Jonas Walpole, 1905, at Erpingham, Norfolk.

Erpingham: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/erpingham/er...

#31DaysofGraves 9: hand

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

One of those songs that makes me well up whenever I hear it.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

An ergonomic chair in the Mackintosh House, the rebuilt home of the Scottish designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald, at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

#Woodensday

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

The hallway window in the Mackintosh house, the rebuilt home of the Scottish designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald, at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

#WindowsOnWednesday

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

Buckfast! I'm afraid that my immediate reaction even before I saw it was you was that this photograph was taken in Scotland...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to Flanders & Swann, my immediate reaction is to search for the disused railway station!

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

2/2 A wider view of the mausoleum of the composer Francis Poulenc, 1963, in Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris. He shares it with his niece who died later the same year.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

Coloured glass set within the mausoluem of the composer Francis Poulenc, 1963, in Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris. 1/2

#31DaysofGraves 8: glass

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

2/2 Refusing to recant, they were executed by drowning while tied to stakes in the Solway Firth on 11th May 1685. The memorial was covered by a glass dome in 1867.

#31DaysofGraves 7: angel

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

The Wigtown Martyrs Memorial, Stirling, by Alexander Handyside Ritchie, 1859.

Sisters Margaret and Agnes Wilson, aged 18 and 13, and Margaret McLauchlan, in her late 60s, were Presbyterian covenanters opposed to religious reforms of Charles II. 1/2

#31DaysofGraves 7: angel

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

More about the plans on the Diocese of East Anglia website: www.rcdea.org.uk/trinity-chur...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 2d

Inverness!

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