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A wonderful description of the limestone landscape which we’re restoring with @NaturalEngland, and already seeing some incredible results #WildIngleborough

Why did past societies build so much "useless" beauty everywhere — and why did we stop? It might be a measure of a culture's health... (thread) 🧵

@roberrttoa @YorkAdventurers @YorkUnlocked @yorkcivictrust @riverfossYork @YorkshireMuseum @yorkwalls @DavidPetts1 It's not really been in use since the food barrier was constructed, but the Hospitium in York Museum Gardens has one against the door.

#OnThisDay 1976: A Wycombe footpath with the right of public access allowed locals to traipse through Mr and Mrs Hall’s flowerbed, through gaps knocked through their garden wall, and into the lounge of Mr and Mrs Dunn. Inevitably, it became a council matter.

Have you ever wondered if there's any significance in the design of a Custard Cream biscuit? A biscuity thread...

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This is a very popular view of York, but this photo from the 1960s shows something that’s no longer there. See the two air vents? They were for the wartime air raid shelter and command centre for the staff of the old train station.

York walls @BeaufortCompnye image & reconstruction of archer hatches possibly used as a cheaper defence alternative to overhanging wooden hoarding. Uses less wood & Archers were a valued defence commodity. Unlike in Hollywood films when they keep dying leapting off battlements!

In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods. @R0b1et @UniRdg_water

Aysgarth Falls in North Yorkshire runs dry. A natural casualty of the current heatwave sees this famous waterfall without water #heatwave @itvtynetees @Ross_Hutchinson

@GarethDennis You guessed right about that area being an exercise yard as well, there used to be bars running between the buildings wings to keep the inmates not only imprisoned but visible to the public as a sort of attraction along with the deer that lived on the grounds in the 18th century!

@GarethDennis A fascinating place with plenty more graffiti to be found, particularly inside! Although it has been modified time and again that building is the original 1705 structure made in part from the magnesian limestone from St Mary's Abbey in what's now the York Museum Gardens.

I was having a plod around the @YorkCastle Museum building over the weekend and, in an area that I presume was formerly an exercise yard for the prison, spotted quite a bit of historic graffiti...

A N N E B O L E Y N • • My favourite find from today’s rummaging through manuscripts @britishlibrary that turn out to be not so beneficial to my research… T H I S! • • A sketch depicting Anne Boleyn and the seating plan at her coronation banquet.

Chapter House, Minster - roof structure. (The oldest beam is c950AD and the heaviest weighs 2 tonnes). It's a gigantic jigsaw puzzle

Fun Fact: Tirpitz was painted to look like a building. During her fitting out, the German dreadnought was painted to resemble the dockyard buildings around her in an attempt to better hide the dreadnought from British aircraft. #FunFactFriday #History #FridayFeeling #fashion

Byland Abbey, Whitby Abbey and Tynemouth Abbey (reconstructions) #EnglishChurches #HistoryRebuilt

Yearly Bridge hospital was constructed 1879 to 1881and at the time was known as York City Fever Hospital. It was extended in 1932 and an annex known as 'The Bungalow" for use as a Smallpox Hospital.@BBCYork @Ex_Heritage @yorkcivictrust @virtualheritage youtu.be/qGzbDK1mmOM

London's long-forgotten pneumatic postal tube network! It ran from House of Commons to the Tower, via the City & GPO and grew to 40 route miles by 1909 - all about 60cm below the street. Many other cities had them too... #PostalWorkersDay #eng" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/p…

York Walls (England) @yorkwalls image and reconstruction suggestion. Darcy the friendly pig from Dirleton is in the foreground. Have used her in several reconstructions.#YorkTownWalls #EnglishCastles #HistoryRebuilt