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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
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Christopher Howse
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Christopher Howse
@BeardyHowse
Writer for the Telegraph. Author of Soho in the Eighties and The Train in Spain.
Katılım Ekim 2013
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I'm increasingly convinced AI poses an existential threat to the academy and all we stand for.
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The remains of Kitty Witches Row, Row 95, in Great Yarmouth.
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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
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'A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London' (1918) by Anna Airy
(Imperial War Museum London)
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@lornahunting Ah, Richard III's badge for the waiting room.
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Before the tyranny of apostrophes.
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20th May 1609: Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
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A College tradition, a Porter escorting a mother and her ducklings from the Master's Garden, through New Court and across Trumpington St before handing off to the teams @Catz_Cambridge and then @QueensCam 🐥🐥🐥🐥
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@BeardyHowse There are one or two pedants at Oxford and even a pendantic column. (Brasenose and Christchurch)
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Avoiding the politics in @The_Tablet I find @BeardyHowse complaining about the service in his bank but rather than wanting to the glory days of cashing cheques he wants to pay tat iniquitous invention of modern days a credit card bill.
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How good men and women were at travelling on top of buses.
History Girl@HistoryGirlBW
A rare film of Edwardian London filmed over a century ago, in 1902. The streets, the people, the pace of life, it’s incredible to watch.
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Muito em linha com as ilustrações do John Tenniel, mas ainda mais bizarras, gosto muito. Como será o caso com muita gente, nunca procurei muito pelas obras de Lewis Carroll para lá de Alice, mas que belas ilustrações com este The Hunting of the Snark.
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Henry Holiday: to Parnassus from The Hunting of the Snark.
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Ham sandwiches? Peggotty's in Great Yarmouth. Prevously St George's Wine Vaults.
Gault brick, 1830. Listed Grade II.
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@TheFrameBlogX * Lear liked lame repetitions at the ends of his Limericks.
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@TheFrameBlogX There was an Old Man who tried hard
To sell Chinese pots full of lard.
When they asked, "Is it Ming?"
He proceeded to sing,
Which cracked open the pots full of lard. *
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A double-decker Venetian window (with door combo)! Ooooh 😍
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@katephillips29 Venetianer: 12 Gentle Street (named after the Gentle family) from St John's churchyard, Frome. Built 1769, listed Grade II*
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