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@BeardyHowse. The LCC ceased to be responsible for trams in 1933 when LPTB TOOK OVER. This cover is almost 100 years old! - or more! The history of London in the pavement !! @archdeaconluke @city muso
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Luke Miller
@ArchdeaconLuke
Archdeacon of London, Prolocutor @Synod, Rector @bythewardrobe, Married to @jacquiAMiller
City of London, London Katılım Mayıs 2013
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New video: Cairo to Aswan by Abela sleeper train, in the new Elite class youtu.be/oraiR3tNmB8 via @YouTube
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@puddingbowl1905 @seatsixtyone @YouTube When we went to Abu Simbel they flew us over Lake Nasser in a rear engined passenger jet!!
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@ArchdeaconLuke @seatsixtyone @YouTube Nasty injury Luke. Any air conditioning these days? We did Luxor to Aswan (boat) thence to Abu Simbel (convoy of taxis each with army officer and gun).
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Quite so - I love Joshua Price* early 18C Conversion of St Paul Window adopted by Wren’s WW2 bombed but fabulous St Andrew–by-the-Wardrobe. New life in another sacred setting and publicly visible and appreciated.
*Father of William Price/James Thornhill Great West window @wabbey
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@DrFrancisYoung @Gough_Janet On the other hand….
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Traditions surrounding State Opening and delivery of a speech by the Monarch can be traced back as far as the 16th century. @UKParliament @UKHouseofLords
📸 flickr.com/photos/ukhouse…
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Most of the public open space in @cityoflondon is churchyard. The partnership between the churches and the Corporation maintains the sustainability, workability & liveability of the City. Accessible & open to all, unlike sky gardens.
City of London@cityoflondon
St Andrew Undershaft churchyard has been transformed into a greener, more climate-resilient space 🌿 With flood-reducing paving, rainwater reuse 💧 and climate-smart planting 🌸, it’s a calm “green lung” in the Square Mile 🌳 Part of our Climate Action Strategy 🌍 @citylordmayor @GreenSqMile @sthelenschurch
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Mrs M returns from the school trip they had for Y6 at the end of SATS week.
“How was it?” quoth I
“Awful. I had to ration the sick bags.”
“Did the children enjoy seeing the animals?”
“It’s Chessington World of Adventures!”
“Isn’t that a zoo?”
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Rebecca West describes the gardens of a Croatian castle: “the kind of grounds that were made in England during the 19th century…shrubby & expensive and futile; these sloped to the base of an extremely steep sugar-loaf Hill which had something like Bailliol on the top of it.”
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My wife found these at an estate sale and asked if the boys would like them.
So, I responded:
“April – 1805. Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him. Oceans are now battlefields.”
“Does that mean yes?” she asked.
Me: OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS
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@UrbanHermit15 @ludgatelarry You are right that it is more than one church; the successor parishes are Holy Sepulchre &S Barts the Great the incumbents of which for the time being are the owners of part of the ground each. Aldersgate is a Guild Church &the Guild Church Acts removed churchyards to parishes.
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@ArchdeaconLuke @ludgatelarry Three in One: St Botolph's Aldersgate, Christ Church Greyfriars, and St Leonard, Foster Lane burial grounds?
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#Thursgate
Two gates, both providing access to the same place. But where are they? Three gold stars if you can identify their location...
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@UrbanHermit15 @ludgatelarry Nope. Clue- it’s a burial ground.
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@ArchdeaconLuke @ludgatelarry The City of London Corporation
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Across the UK, countless acts of kindness and care happen every day - but so often they go unseen.
A Million Acts of Hope is about shining a light on those moments and celebrating the people helping their communities flourish.
Because there is far more that connects us than divides us.
millionactsofhope.org
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14 May 1936, FM Edmund Allenby died, aged 75. Led Egyptian Expeditionary Force in #WW1 Sinai & Palestine Campaign against Turks. Having captured #Jerusalem in Dec 1917, entered city on foot. Reputedly said, “I won’t ride my horse into the city into which my Lord rode a donkey.”
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This isn't all that unusual - Georgian church art (where it survives at all) is often systematically hidden by churches and cathedrals ashamed of anything that isn't Victorian or medieval and doesn't fit in with the Tractarian fantasies that still hold the Anglican mind captive
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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?
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New every morning is the love
Our waking and uprising prove
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New mercies, each returning day,
Hover around us while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiv'n,
New thoughts of God new hopes of heav’n.
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Remarkably, on a wall in St. Oswald’s, Ashbourne, the original brass consecration plate of 1241 survives - in honour of St. Oswald (Oswaldi). It feels like a wormhole - as though the medieval world has briefly surfaced in the present - captured like a fly in amber.
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