And a cracker it is! I've only ever passed through Winchelsea, but by all accounts it's a fascinating place, with the lost old town and the planned new one. Very characterful.
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And a cracker it is! I've only ever passed through Winchelsea, but by all accounts it's a fascinating place, with the lost old town and the planned new one. Very characterful.
😄 I'm not making them up, I promise! (Someone did, at some point mind.)
A black and white photo of a large and ruinous 19th century mansion, in the French style. Historic England, England's Place Collection, O574_037.
A black and white photo of broad wooden staircase, of three flights going around three sides of a grand but ruinous room. Historic England, England's Place Collection, O574_077.
A black and white photo of a narrow but stylish wooden spiral staircase, with significant damage. Historic England, England's Place Collection, O574_059.
The staircases of Marbury Hall, near #Northwich, just before demolition in 1969. The house had been a home, country club, base for the Army, a POW camp & temporary housing for ICI workers. No wonder it had its share of wear & tear.
#StaircaseSaturday #Cheshire
📷 Historic England (see Alt text)
That's nicely done: it focuses on the people, their items and stories. All the best to Barrow for their anniversary year.
Terrific, I'm glad to hear it. I'll be sure to call in when next visiting Sheffield. I have very fond memories of the place from the 90s and 00s, though have only been in a couple of times since then.
...I've especially enjoyed The Bath Hotel, The Red Deer, The Three Tuns and - of course - The Grapes. I haven't been to The Old Shoe, but I'll make sure I do next time, on that recommendation. Cheers!
...hotel cellar, long gone), Sportsmans (lasted until a few years back under a different name) and Dog & Partridge (back then a genuine Irish-run Irish pub; the longstanding landlady moved a few doors up to The Grapes and created the same scene there, still going strong). On more recent visits...
My local at the time was The Beer Engine, just off the bottom of the road. Reliably good, with as many locals as students. Still there, although I haven't been back in for ages. I have fond memories of the Hallamshire (gone), Dove & Rainbow (still with us), the Wapentake (legendary rock bar in a...
There sure are. I left there in '98, but return for a mooch every few years. A lot of my old favourites have gone, but plenty of others have flourished since. For a start, The Sheffield Tap is a massive improvement on the old bar it replaced, before you even leave the station!
I remember watching that game in a pub on West Street in Sheffield. The fact it was 30 years ago is surreal.
A two-fingered metal fingerpost (hopefully made of iron, given the location), with one pointing left and one right. The left one reads 'Quaker Burial Ground'. To the right: 'Derby Houses; Museum of Iron 1/4, Enginuity 1/4. There are several waymarking stickers on the pole, and bushes in the background.
In the week that the @nationaltrust.org.uk formally took over from the #Ironbridge Gorge #Museums Trust, a topical entry for #FingerpostFriday: a functional two-fingered number directing the visitor to some of Coalbrookedale's many points of interest.
📷 My own, from 2020.
Good news in the British Museum polling re. the Bayeux Tapestry visit: 71% of parents want their children to learn more about the story of 1066 and 76% of responses agreed '1066 is an important part of British history and people should learn more about it'.
Fund the Arts and Humanities!
#Medievalsky
It really is. Visiting the place is as close as we're likely to get to time travel.
Not a tiny fragment, nor a single sherd of pottery, but a full, voluminous Anglo-Saxon space from the 9th century at St Wystan’s in Repton, Derbyshire. The spiral columns - perhaps a memory of St Peter’s shrine. Holy air encased in stone. Betjeman’s words describe it perfectly.
The partially excavated outline of a Roman fort and its vicus in a countryside landscape. There are reconstructed towers and sections of wall in the bottom right, outside the fort itself.
#Vindolanda pictured in May 1980, at a much earlier stage in the epic and ongoing excavations there. The reconstruction towers and sections of wall built in the 70s are plainly visible, bottom right. #RomanFortThursday #Northumberland
Image: Cambridge Air Photos, CUCAP 35kCB022
Cracking - those really convey the ridge's bulk.
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A fascinating point! #HillfortsWednesday
More on the promontory fort at Helsby, #Cheshire - as mapped by the OS at the turn of the C19-20, and on a recent satellite view. The massive sandstone ridge is obvious even from above, & the earthworks visible to varying degrees, depending on land-use. #HillfortsWednesday
Lichfield Cathedral's twin spires. But they're not, quite.
Yep. If you've got a tower knocking around in your back garden, today is the day old son.
Good morning from the #RiverWeaver, near #Northwich. #Cheshire
The West end of a very old church building, viewed from up close. A rough stone tower is flanked by two later aisles, each of different design, giving an asymmetrical appearance.
For #TowerTuesday, the wonderful 10th century example at the Church of St. Mary, Deerhurst, #Gloucestershire. Substantial parts of the building are pre-Conquest, and with another Saxon church 100-odd yards away (Odda's Chapel), the place is a time-machine. #ChurchCrawling
📷 My own, 2019.
Three rectangular mosaics, in portrait aspect, presented next to each other on a brick wall. From left to right: - A salt worker above the word 'SALT' - A chemicals factory, with smoking chimneys, above the ICI logo and the word 'CHEMICALS' - The Anderton Boat Lift, above a boat on the water and the word 'WATERWAYS'.
The #Northwich triptych, celebrating its three major historic industries in mosaic form, on a wall in Leicester Street. I esp. like the depiction of the Anderton Boat Lift. Produced some years ago by artists Sarah Hill & Karen Smith, & community groups. #MosaicMonday #Cheshire
📷 My own, from 2024
The thought of a parmo in 1980 seems genuinely exotic. I know they've been around longer than that, but I didn't encounter them until spending regular time on the far side of the Pennines, from about 20 years ago.
The Council should pass a motion on this.
A green metal fingerpost with two fingers, both pointing to the right. The one in the foreground reads 'Ampitheatre', in white lettering. The one in the background is partly obscured, but reads 'Brookway Lane'. It is set in a relatively young woodland. The site is what used to be spoil tips for Bold Colliery, and before that, Parr moss. It is now known as 'Colliers Moss'. Brookway Lane is part of 'Cement City', a housing estate built for miners.
Another Friday, another classic example of the genre:
✅ Misspelt
✅ Used for target practise
Not as high scoring as last week's entry, but I think the prospect of visiting an 'ampitheatre' makes up for it.
#FingerpostFriday #StHelens #Lancashire #CoalMining
📷 my own, 2019
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I didn't think the parmo could be improved, but encasing it in pastry to make it acceptable to polite society on weekday teatimes instead of just weekend chucking out times is a stroke of genius.
It was good for something, then. 😄 I remember the weird temple/dance floor thing, complete with columns. Very odd.
