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Carleton
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Here for culture, and general amusement.
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katebevan.com
absolutely fantastic choice of new judge here
January 26, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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stelingard.bsky.social
Splendid mosaic bookstall sign, at #Manchester Victoria Station. Pic my own, from 2016. For a few years before that, the old stall was used as a booking office for a rebooted Orient Express 'Northern Belle' service. #MosaicMonday #Railways
A large mosaic above a former shop front. The gold letters 'BOOKSTALL' are set against a blue background.
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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blitzwalker.bsky.social
The (as far as I know) last surviving Auxiliary Fire Service pumping station on the Thames at Charlton. Still hanging on!
The last surviving WW2 auxiliary pumping station on the Thames at Charlton
January 26, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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hansholbein.bsky.social
Portrait of Lady Mary Guildford https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-holbein-the-younger/portrait-of-lady-mary-guildford-1527
Portrait of Lady Mary Guildford
January 25, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
Morning!
#MosaicMonday
A Roman Mosaic. Trust us. This is a wolf. It may look like Batman after he's fallen asleep at a party and his "mates" have "decorated" him, but it's a wolf.
January 26, 2026 at 9:20 AM
jcarleton.bsky.social
Never knew there was a 1926 precursor to Orson Welles radio broadcast.
"Listeners heard Big Ben had been destroyed by trench mortars, the Savoy hotel bombed, and the government minister for traffic hanged on a lamppost on Vauxhall Bridge Road".

#news #FakeNews #Radio #hoax
100 years of fake news: the accidental radio hoax that te...
A century ago, a priest’s satirical BBC broadcast convinced listeners that London was under siege. It became a global sensation, and Orson Welles was listening...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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roaringmeg.bsky.social
Former Eagle Insurance offices 122-124 Colmore Row #Birmingham
Completed in 1900. #ArtsandCrafts style by William Lethaby & Joseph Lancaster Ball. Pevsner describes it as “one of the most original buildings of its date in England” #Architecture #Buildings
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 AM
jcarleton.bsky.social
#Pre-Raphaelite favourite Jane Morris born Oct 1839 – died #OTD 26th Jan 1914, photographed by John Robert Parsons, 7th June 1865, posed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Morris as Mariana from Measure for Measure, painted by Dante Gabriel #Rossetti (1870)

Study of Jane Morris by Evelyn De Morgan (1904)
A woman posed seated, only visible down to the waist, with one arm draped across the top of the chair. Her dress is full, the drapery chosen for the way it hangs and folds. Her face in profile, her head tilted down showing her strong jawline, and her hair in rows of curls gathered at the nape of her neck. Desciption of the first image fits for this image also, except it's a painting, in colour and we can see the dress is blue A painting of Jane Morris in later years with silver hair, striking a similar pose to those in her earlier pre-raphaelite portraits, with tilted head supported by a blue cushion.
January 26, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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bwallower.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
From a domus of v high status next to forum in #Roman Tarantum excavated 1899.
One of a number of fine mosaics around the peristyle featuring geometric patterns + delicate polychromy.
In Taranto's super MArTA (Nat Arch Museum). 🏺
On an off-white mosaic background, pinkish-tan diamond shaped lozenges are set out alternately horizontal or vertical. Each has a thin black line as a border, and another black line around it. These are all contained within a geometrical pattern of more black lines connecting all the points of the other outlined forms.
January 26, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Hell yeah, former Meyercord Company Building. I've been waiting for you to show up on here! The original interiors were by Abel Faidy, who was aptly initialed because they do indeed go hard AF.

Architect: Julius Floto, 1938
Old pics: buff.ly/4f9dmnh
Color photo of a two story, tan brick Art Moderne building with a white SUV parked in front, blocking full view of the entrance. Each corner has a curving expanse of wraparound glass brick, and the building has a central bay of glass brick stretching from the second to third story, above an obviously remodeled plain entrance. Windows at ground level have also been covered. Black and white photo of the same building in the 1930s. Each expanse of glass bricks glows, and the original entrance is revealed. When built, the central bay had glass brick extending down to the first floor and surrounding the doors. The now covered windows at ground level were also once curving wraparound windows of glass brick. Two black photos of the interior of the building, showing what the corner offices looked like. The room itself is curvy, and each features a boxy desk that the rooms seem to flow around. Light too flows in through the glass block windows directly behind the desk; these rooms must have been awash in natural light. Two black photos of the interior of the building, showing what the corner offices looked like. The room itself is curvy, and each features a boxy desk that the rooms seem to flow around. Light too flows in through the glass block windows directly behind the desk; these rooms must have been awash in natural light. Black and white photos of the interior of the building. One showcases the specially designed floor at the bottom of a stairwell. The terrazzo floor features the Meyercord's logo -- a hand pulling back a decal. The other photo shows what I believe might be a waiting room, featuring some modern art and seating, and an abundance of natural light flowing in from windows near the back of the room.
January 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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doreenfletcher.bsky.social
‘Canada Square,’ 1989. I watched this building being built and mature trees being dropped into place by cranes. In 1996, painting was damaged in a gallery near South Quay when the IRA bomb was detonated. I still have the work and have left the marks created by flying glass, all part of its story!
December 11, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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duille.com
Teaset. Jacob Bjorheim. 1933.
December 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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wendyo.bsky.social
Hutzler Olive Keeper 🫒
Container that looks like a green olive with a pimento in the lid
December 6, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
Just in case you miss it:

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mariegardiner.bsky.social Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · Nov 4
The original wooden escalators from 1951 are still in the Tyne Pedestrian and Cycle Tunnel, though they've taken one out per side. They don't move now but you still walk up/down them to access the tunnels (if you're not using the lift).

#Photography #Architecture
Wooden escalators from the bottom looking up, there are green tiles on the wall to the left wooden escalators leading up to the entrance of the tunnel, there is an empty shaft to the left coloured with purple lighting
November 4, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
One indication of Bazille's close ties to the Impressionist circle is in this curious scene he painted of one of his friends in bed with a badly injured & inflamed leg - a bearded figure who is none other than Claude Monet, with whom Bazille shared a studio www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/...
A painting of a young bearded man in bed, with a red, inflamed leg, and an improvised contraption hanging over him to keep the leg supported
December 6, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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stelingard.bsky.social
Ryknild Street (18a), just west of Bourton-on-the-Hill, w. Bourton Hill Farm in the centre of the shot. Clear as day from above in 1977...now partly under plantation. #RomanRoadsFriday #RomanBritain #Gloucestershire
A black and white aerial photo of farmland, with hedges, a few buildings and some lanes. The ghostly line of an old Roman road cuts across the lines in the foreground, heading into the distance. Photo via Cambridge Air Photos, CUCAP CCF52.
November 29, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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philgrowney.bsky.social
Everton library, bright start to this new app for me
November 13, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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richardmortimer.bsky.social
#AdoorableThursday
Spitalfields
December 5, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
For sale

#ThePhotoHour #Photography #Abandoned #Architecture
a detached three story building in poor shape. The bricks are burnt and the windows are either smashed or boarded up. There's a for sale sign on the lower left third of the building. On the right there's a lamp post with a pigeon that looks a bit fake but isn't, flying past it
November 27, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'Past Power And Glory' by John Bryce
www.re-printmakers.com/artists
November 29, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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ahistoryinart.bsky.social
In March 2025, the Royal Academy is exhibiting around 70 pictures by the author and politician Victor Hugo, who is less well known as an artist than he should be. This work is of the Eddystone Lightstone from 1866.
December 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM