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

@MichaelMcGough3 But there it might rhyme with cow.

"Body Snatcher's Row" would make a great band name.

Classical and rustic: an 18th-century extension to the former White Horse public house opposite St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth. The alley to the right is Row No 6 (of 145), Body Snatcher's Row, after Thomas Vaughan, who dug up 10 in 1827 and was jailed.

Pleasant mix of flint and brick in the walls of the early 17th-century Old White Lion, under its pantiled roof. King Street, Great Yarmouth. Listed Grade II*

@TheFrameBlogX @NationalGallery It's packed full of good things.

@BeardyHowse @NationalGallery Thank you so much - how kind of you!🙂🙂

How Whistlejacket lost the context of his frame, and other tales – in time to catch the Stubbs exhibition @NationalGallery theframeblog.com/2026/05/23/geo…

A remarkably well turned letter encapsulating two lives. Jean Mellows died in 2023.

When does a half-eaten pavlova become an Eton mess?

@intelhistory I fear it has closed down.

@BeardyHowse Is Burdens Wet Fish still there in Gorleston? Worth a visit if it is.

Lark & Son – Family boot & shoe makers. A restored fascia in King Street, Great Yarmouth.

Fine cats

Flinty. South wall of St Nicholas's church, Great Yarmouth

The Place – public library, registration of births etc – in Great Yarmouth Market Place. From 1837 to 2020 it was Palmers department store. The conversion cost £17 million.

The longest line of sight in the U.K. has been seen only a few times, and photographed once. In 2015, Kris Williams was atop Snowdon in perfect conditions and managed to snap The Merrick in Southern Scotland. A remarkable distance of 232km (144 miles).

'That Whitsun, I was late getting away...' Philip Larkin's poem 'The Whitsun Weddings' is set today, the Saturday of the Whit weekend: poetryfoundation.org/poems/48411/th… Larkin's voice, my video of the train leaving Hull and travelling along the north bank of the Humber:

The Ship Inn until 2008, Great Yarmouth. A 17th-century building now listed Grade II. Dutch prisoners were held here after the Battle of Camperdown, 1797.

@TheFrameBlogX Answer 1: Everyone knows who the Kitty Witches were. Answer 2: No one knows who the Kitty Witches were.

@BeardyHowse I feel that you really do need to explain who the Kitty Witches were...

The remains of Kitty Witches Row, Row 95, in Great Yarmouth.

I'm increasingly convinced AI poses an existential threat to the academy and all we stand for.

This scarce 1 lepton coin was minted during the brief period from 1815 when the Ionian Islands were British. Venetian for centuries and the only part of Greece not conquered by the Ottomans. The British protectorate ended on 21st May 1864 when the islands were united with Greece

'A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London' (1918) by Anna Airy (Imperial War Museum London)