John Preston

Sounds like it might be an interesting read

@SundPamela I finally cracked and found time to make the shelves. Lots of sorting still to do.

Does anyone else have an area in every room that looks like this?

@SundPamela Does this give you hope?

It was another amazing day of cloud inversions on Helvellyn today, it was a special day to be on the high fells! We just need some snow now! #helvellyn #cloudinversion #summitsafely

@RosemaryKarlss1 Merry Christmas. Hope you are doing OK. ?

@MichelleU_Wood A Merry Christmas Michelle. Successful painting in 2025

Merry Christmas, All!🎅🏻🎄 Hope you all have a lovely day with people that you love. Thank you for all of your encouragement, support and friendship here. Much love, Michelle xxx

@Petercl04558275 And to you Pete. May 2025 be a good year.

Merry Christmas to everyone 🎉🎄🎉🎊🎉🎄

An unusual window, the tracery and designed to be viewed from the enclosed staircase, lit by the room/outer window beyond. Fountains Hall @fountainsabbey In memory of two lost in WW2 As many gather with friends and family- remember those who will not be there, @BSMGP

@WriterHannahBT That would be a more colourful first bird series. It is wet and windy I have been listening for #firstbirdofmyday nothing. So chilly I will be forced to get up.

Apparently I joined X 4 years ago today. I was living in the rural grasslands of Ghana surrounded by parrots and turacos and kingfishers. Thanks to all of you who have surrounded me here, with your birds.

@MichelleU_Wood Beautiful work

Life drawing class 10 min pose with ghost drawing showing through the paper.

it is lovely, although I fear the bike slightly undersize?

@SimoninSuffolk I feel the need of a visit

3/3 The street view from Deansgate. Champneys gives the gravitas of a secular Gothic cathedral to a what is still an imposing public building today. The combination of red brick and Art Nouveau ironwork is memorable.

An archway leads to a balcony above the entrance hall of the John Rylands Library, Manchester. By Basil Champneys, 1890-99, a private commission by Rylands' widow Enriqueta. It cost £230,000, roughly £24,000,000 in today's money. John Rylands was a wealthy entrepreneur employing 15,000 people in Manchester manufacturing textile goods. In the early days, much of the cotton was picked by enslaved people on plantations in the southern United States, although the Rylands family themselves owned no slaves or plantations, and the company also offered 'freely picked' alternatives to some of its products, which was considered unusual and enlightened at the time. Nevertheless, Rylands was Manchester's first multi-millionaire, and one of the richest men in Europe. His activities as a philanthropist included paying for schools, orphanages, retirement homes and non-conformist chapels, as well as a number of public buildings in Stretford, including the Town Hall, although he never held any public office himself. He bankrolled the Manchester Ship Canal when it looked like the project might fail. When he died in 1888 his estate was valued at £2,574,922, roughly £270,000,000 in today's money.

Painting of a celebration in 1953 signed simply BZ. ..the banner in the painting says Acrobatics of Burley...in the background is a church steeple...many others from different Burleys suggested Leeds. could it be a celebration in @BurleyPark Any insight @ahistoryinart @HWarlow

@MichelleU_Wood On the Folly Flanuse website. A weekly post on Follies. The painting is c 1908 and in the Kirklees collection

@JohnPLeeds I can totally see what you mean John, it really does look like my style. Where did you come across the painting? Thanks for sharing it with me, it’s a beautiful artwork.

❄️FOR SALE❄️ ‘Heading to the Bothy before Nightfall’ Indian ink and mixed media on Arches watercolour paper. Large size - 46 x 61 cm (18 x 24 inches) £110 including postage within the UK. Postage additional outside of UK. DM or comment if interested.

@ahistoryinart I saw the early 1990s exhibition twice some remarkable total landscapes with naval and northern. Thus one really different

During the 1950s when 'The Donkey Boy,' was painted, Richard Eurich was recognised as one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists who had exhibited at the Royal Academy consistently from the 1930s onwards - his work is frequently concerned with the sea and English countryside.

As it’s a chilly old day, make a pot of tea, put a blanket on your knees, shut your eyes for ten minutes and listen to short passages from the past. I’d be thrilled if you would join me☔️🤗 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gre…

@WriterHannahBT A couple of solo crows riding the wind as it curls off the roofs of the bigger terraces. A couple of six times craw calls of joy? from ones playing king of the chimney pots And we have had a mistle thrush drop by to finish off the final rowan berries #FirstBirdofMyDay

First bird of my day: a wren, in the low branches of a shrub, luckily light and small and hidden from the 65kmph gusts of wind. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

Powerful painting.

Click in Storm Bert !