Christopher Howse

Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74

From the BBC's Newscast: "Q+A: Burnham Says He'd Save Labour, But Can He Win Makersfield?" Makerfield, the constituency name, is unfamiliar because it is not an actual place. Ashton-in-Makerfield exists. But there is no bus to Makerfield.

One of the fine old buildings facing the river Yare along South Quay, Great Yarmouth. The entry under the house is Row 76, in the tragically lost series of 145 such lateral alleys.

@BeardyHowse A different strategy at Cambridge station. The plastic owl...

For #AscensionDay let’s champion a return to public view for William Hogarth’s vast Ascension triptych - proof the English could rival the Continentals in grand-scale church history painting. Painted for St Mary Redcliffe, it now hangs hidden behind a curtain in St Nicholas, Bristol. Surely it deserves better?

@ALucieSmith Some background here: premierchristianity.com/interviews/wes…

What sort of Anglican is Streeting? High? Evangelical? Middle stump? Anglo-Catholic? Anyone know?

The warning ... the culprit. Great Yarmouth station.

@TheFrameBlogX Would you go as far as frumenty?

@BeardyHowse Personally I am all for leaving wheat happily in its previous incarnation, and just borrowing the odd bit for brown soda bread.

Pasta la vista: Waveney Mill on the Yare at Yarmouth, which turns wheat into pasta.

@ThatNickGraham @AntigoneJournal Reads better in translation.

@AntigoneJournal Walter Scott, much as I admire him, is punching above his weight in that company.

An intriguing intellectual exercise to pull together a list of the "100 greatest men" and summarise each of them in but a few pages. Any surprising omissions or inclusions?

What is this barnlike thatched building on the far side of the river Yare from Great Yarmouth? An ice house, of course, built in the early 19th century to store ice for packing herrings, the town's precious commodity.

Such a pretty almshouse: Fishermen's Hospital, Great Yarmouth, 1702. Painted statue of St Christopher under the cupola. Grade I listed building.

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ΣTAPMHP.

Evrelyn Dunbar's "Convalescent Nurses Making Camouflage Nets" (1941), showing nurses from St Thomas's Hospital, London. Part of the Imperial War Museum's excellent Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art.

@brendanwalsh53 And it's very hard to see how Utopia applies to real-life societies.

@BeardyHowse A Secular Age is a bit of a whopper.

Bravo! Throw in a Maritain (say, Man and the State) and you’ve got an even stronger hand.

A conspicuous piece of #spolia stands in the C15 atrium of the #TordeSpecchi monastery in #Rome, this #SpoliaSunday: a massive upside-down #sarcophagus lid from the C5, reused as a #manger for the mule of the nunnery's founder, S. Francesca Romana. 📸 Francesca Casonio via IG

At least it's not fully goodbye, but it is very sad news. I have got some wonderful treasures at Travis and Emery over the years.

@cguyver No, the Dark Ages began in 1789.

funny cos I thought the Dark Ages were earlier

Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.