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Mendip-dwelling retiree: considers himself a West London Cockney.

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martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jun 21

For BaNES & Somerset, these are good.
Also have tithe maps with information on each plot (field name/property name, owner, lessee, etc)
www.somersetheritage.org.uk

Somerset HER

www.somersetheritage.org.uk

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · 5h

When The Spastics Society changed their name to Scope, playgrounds moved with them and started calling other children 'Scopies'

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · 6d

paging @ejparkinson.bsky.social

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 8d

“An example of the town of the future is Coventry.... Traffic and pedestrians are kept apart and the roads are planned to let traffic flow smoothly”

(Our Land in the Making, 1966)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Illustration of the precinct shopping centre in Coventry, with its shiny 1960s architecture, walkways and colourful flower planters

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martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · 6d

All run by the same multi-million company that also leases out dodgy sweet-shops on Oxford Street and is trying to close the Prince Charles Cinema.

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · 7d

I'll just leave this here:
thecritic.co.uk/the-end-of-p...

The end of Pevsner | Charles Saumarez Smith | The Critic Magazine

I was given my first copy of Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England in the summer of 1967 when I was going off to boarding school

thecritic.co.uk

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · 27d

Unsurprisingly, I'm not the first to ponder the question, see:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...

What would the union jack look like if Scotland votes for independence?

An association of flag experts, or vexillologists, has created a set of designs it hopes will encourage a discussion, writes Sam Judah.

www.bbc.co.uk

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · 27d

Seeing a picture of a Red Arrows flypast set me wondering if they would have stopped using blue smoke if Scotland had gained independence.
Would the union jack have lost the saltire?

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martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Sep 1

"They lose me right after the bunker scene..."

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Aug 20

The humiliation always feels terrible.
They have the knack, you don't know the knack.

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 21

Lovely. And there was always an older tape-deck with varispeed in the corner that delayed the feed to the echo unit, because echoes aren't instant.
I read that Duane Eddy/Lee Hazelwood used a grain silo (Wikipedia says water storage unit) and that Ry Cooder used an oil-drum echo.

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martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 21

There's a train line in London unoffically called the Goblin - "Gospel Oak to Barking Line"

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 17

Shhh! Don't make yourself so common!

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 10

Ah, the Battleship and Rotunda buildings
More here: www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/off...

Battleship / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris | AHMM

www.ahmm.co.uk

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great writing (as always) but that illustration is what grabbed me. Sadly no credit given on the FT web pages.

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 4

takeaway #3: many other bird species will opportunely lay eggs in neighbouring nests: moorhens, we're looking at you.

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 4

takeaway #2: ... and they spend most of the time hiding and watching other nests ready for the moment to lay, with the egg - so to speak - preloaded.

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 4

takeaway #1: female cuckoos have probably never seen their own eggs ...

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jul 4

Just finished my 2nd read of 'Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature' by Nick Davies, a glorious celebration of a weird and infamous bird. The 1st read was so good I gave it away as a gift - to share the enjoyment - so had to buy another copy.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · Jul 1

Sometimes I wake up - like today - thinking quite out of the blue how insanely easy it would’ve been to improve things in even the most marginal of ways after the catastrophe of the Tories, and how insanely incompetent and malevolent Labour have been in actually making it just as bad, if not worse.

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martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jun 21

For BaNES & Somerset, these are good.
Also have tithe maps with information on each plot (field name/property name, owner, lessee, etc)
www.somersetheritage.org.uk

Somerset HER

www.somersetheritage.org.uk

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jun 18

online is the only way to go - Bath Library is similar but it's teenage students commandeering every desk and chair.

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jun 17

oooh, v. happy you followed up one of my recommendations.
Twilley mostly writes in the New Yorker, available online (and free) from most libraries.

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martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jun 12

You do!
(and definitely not banal)

martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jun 12

1st take-away factoid: eels are the most smuggled animal by weight and value.
2nd take-way factoid: Ely (city) was named for its eels.
Many more amazing factoids available (but why are podcast presenters so banal?)

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Jun 10

Watch me talk about eels! This was a really fun conversation, and I'm delighted that it's out in the world! Also, I talk about maps a bit, and why meat is sexy in ways that eels just aren't!

Lynn Price Robbins, PhD @lynnprobbins.bsky.social · Jun 10

Step away from the dumpster fire that is the Earth for a moment and learn about the fascinating world of eels with @greenleejw.bsky.social! You won't regret it. #2complicated4history

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Jun 7

Happy National Donut Day!

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martin'o'mendips @martinevans2000.bsky.social · Jun 3

The wheat sheaves feature prominently in the Grosvenor family who came from Chester, hence the similarity.
All the devices are quite common, so I think the bridge is the clue.
I'm only a novice but thank you for the challenge, and many thanks to this site:
www.civicheraldry.co.uk

CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND

information on civic heraldry in england, wales and northern ireland both contemporary and obsolete

www.civicheraldry.co.uk

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