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Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 17h

Yesterday we welcomed a team from NHK (Japan's biggest broadcaster) interviewing @public-history.bsky.social about the amazing story of the Wiltshire Thatcher and the cover of Led Zeppelin IV (with Stairway to Heaven!). Broadcast in the New Year.

More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

Three people in front of a blownup historic photograph of an elderly man carrying a bundle of sticks and labelled 'a Wiltshire thatcher'

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Jennings.

Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 1d

The questions were so interesting it was a pleasure being interviewed by Yasuhiro Kodama and Haruyoshi Nishimura for a Japanese television series about famous rock music album covers.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 1d

Poles with dropwires and aerial cabling are not just the cheapest, quickest and financially efficient way of supplying broadband feeds where there is no availanle underground duct capacity - birds perch on dropwires to bring nature into urban lives. They should bring back pole finials though.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 3d

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Strongest candidate.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 3d

@martynjb.bsky.social

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/music/2023/n...

Figure on Led Zeppelin IV cover identified as Victorian Wiltshire thatcher

Fifty-year mystery solved as research suggests picture shows Lot Long, a widower from Mere

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 3d

Led Zeppelin IV released on this day 1971. The Victorian photograph on the cover is of the Wiltshire Thatcher - the original is in the collection of Wiltshire Museum. @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 4d

Inconveniently designed to slip into stirrups, given the amount of time he spent on a horse, Stukeley's footwear choice is strange. 😉

Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 4d

They were on a schedule, so I was required to deliver a 5,000-year history in 30 minutes. 😆

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 4d

The vertical shaft being excavated by Drax's miners in 1776, the discovery of the collapse in the summit of Silbury Hill 29 May 2000, and the resulting 'hole.'

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 4d

An open air talk to Christian Climate Action pilgrims at Silbury Hill in the footsteps of talks popularised in the 19th century: the collapse on 29 May 2000, Edward Drax's miners of 1776, Dean Merewether's 1849 tunnel, BBC failing to backfill in 1970 + climate info text from @jimleary.bsky.social

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 6d

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 7d

'Sofa',... end credits from Men Behaving Badly series 6 episode 6, broadcast 11 December 1997. Moments earlier, a large exotic snake had been tipped out of a sack in front of the sofa, but was removed. Wondering if the cast and crew were aware of the justifiable reputation for adders on that hill.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 9d

Released this day in 1967, I didn't buy it until nearer Christmas. My father was sick of it within the first few days but within a week started to sing along to the Mother's Lament.

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 11d

A splendid 2 days exploring the mysterious and not so mysterious Chiltern chalk figures.

Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 11d

Had a lovely visit to an iconic Chilterns monument today with @jonwoolcott.bsky.social , the man who's bringing us a brilliant new book in April!

In between rain deluges, we captured the impressive Vale below the Chilterns Scarp, and even managed to see and hear one of my favourite things

A book entitled The Tattooed Hills and showing a hillside chalk carving of a white horse

A wide shot of a rolling green landscape

A steam engine ( USATV S160 from the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, USA, built in 1945) pulls her carriages across a sundrenched autumnal landscape

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 11d

My thoughts on the potential for any appeal related to the judge's summary; but you are right. Stunts mounted at SMs induce anxieties that take time to subside.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 11d

This will surely go to appeal, the protest could have taken place effectively without the powder being directed at the stones.

Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 12d

Please share.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 12d

And Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson was a great craftsman that cared for it and arranged restorations for over 30 years. I don't think 'crap' is an informed remark. Love those photos Jon, I shall send you something shortly. 😃

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 12d

Kilburn WH has represented regional importance and unity to a number of communities that have identified with it for over a century and a half. Motoring and cycling groups were among those contributing significant donations to the Yorkshire Post's restoration in 1926. ...

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 12d

The wonderful White Horse of Kilburn.

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Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 12d

Have just written a draft note about the onset of Guy Underwood's interest in dowsing during wartime for a magazine. Can't though source any photograph of him other than one used in a previous article. Has anyone knowledge of any photographs of Underwood please?

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