I was there on Sunday. Agree it is a good refurbishment and was gratifyingly busy during my visit.

What's stopping you now?

I was there this time last year. Gertrude Stein is buried nearby too.

Good to see tram networks included, though not without error (deansgate/Castelfield).

The actual link doesn't immediately seem relevant so I will query that.

It would have linked 9,000 records back to the blogpost, so that one doesn't have a link.

Digitised back in 2018 as part of the @sciencemuseum.org.uk partnership with Google Arts and Culture. blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/expanding-ou...

Distinctive street names are always good. Like placenames generally they can easily remain in use long after their source is forgotten (e.g. Tooting). I see there's also adjacent Recovery Street. That appears on OS maps revised in 1893-4, whereas Effort Street is first named on maps revised in 1913.

Fascinating, thanks Nick and Stuart. One of my formative influences was the 1993 BBC TV series and book Tales from the Map Room, and the episode/chapter title 'A tissue of lies' seems appropriate here.

You might say cuff-deep. Cuffs sit immediately above the wrist, but there aren't any common terms for between there and the elbow. Gauntlets can cover at least part of the forearm (depending on length), but nobody says gauntlet-deep.

Very good.

Surely you can get a haiku out of it.

The Japan House London exhibition?

During the pandemic I started noticing drain covers, the best of which tell a history of local governance. The earliest I have found is this one bearing the name Withington Local Board, which dates it to between 1876 and 1894.

Left is better, pictograms are easier to scan than text and use of colour is (slightly) better. However neither is great, partly because the pictograms are overly stylised, the white on grey stairs don't stand out, plus some people find axonometric projections hard to interpret.

I highly recommend reading No Place To Go by @lezlielowe.bsky.social.

Review: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I expect you know that @c20society.bsky.social has a campaign to list cooling towers. c20society.org.uk/cooling-towers. However to my mind the best, the pink-tinted cooling towers of Ironbridge B (seen here in 2012), have already gone.

I considered pointing this out, but investigation showed that "a full rough draft of Swift's masterpiece had been completed and was being transcribed by 14 August 1725" (DNB) so I didn't consider you to be entirely wrong, even if publication wasn't until 1726.

Let me know where you want it posted.