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“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin & let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather & the still more miserable ways of our fellow-men.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips Sherlock Holmes “born” 6th January 1861

'A Lambeth Alley' (1920s) by Douglas Percy Bliss (Private collection)

London Backwater, near St Pancras', Woburn Walk by James Finlay Watson (1898–1981) (Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens)

You have to admit, this one has a magic that is not to be resisted.

Back alley in Whitechapel, London. One of my favourite back alleys, in fact. Off the busy main street here, you walk through an archway and seemingly into another world and another time, of cobbled streets and Victorian buildings.

'Fog: Ladies crossing Piccadilly' (from 'The Colour of London', 1907) by Yoshio Markino

Did you ever kill anybody Father, by Frank Holl (1883)

'A Wet Night at Piccadilly Circus' (1910) by Arthur Hacker (Royal Academy)

The palatial Grand Salon of the Holborn Restaurant. Can I take your order from their 1881 Table d'Hôte please?

This sewage pumping station in London is a sight to behold. 🤩 Opened #OnThisDay in 1865 by Joseph Bazalgette, Crossness Pumping Station is a masterpiece of Victorian engineering. It was part of Bazalgette’s sewage system, which contributed to eradicating cholera in the city.

We're thrilled to be back at the Edinburgh Fringe for 2025! Tickets on sale here: edinburgh.justthetonic.com/event/88:4970/

Words can't say how much I love this photo: "The Ship's Cat," Sydney, circa 1912. [Harold Cazneaux] An evocative scene for your #MewseumMonday

Queen Victoria's Christmas tree at Windsor Castle, by English painter James Robert (1850). Royal Collection.

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone. We hope you indulge in some seasonably spooky stories tonight 🖤🕯️

Decorating the Christmas tree, by French painter Marcel Rieder (1898). In private collection.

We saw this and it was great fun – Oxford-based fans, do take a look:

@BITheatre bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… well done all of you.

NOTICE: a break from Fringe preparation – our beloved sometime home the @BITheatre is appealing for donations to keep its doors open. Save the UK’s first full-time dedicated improv theatre by donating here (we have): improvtheatre.co.uk/donate/

'Sunday Afternoon - East London', Rotherhithe (c.1887) by Charles William Wyllie (Private collection)

A burglar who broke into an apartment in Rome last night was arrested after sitting down mid-robbery to read a book about Greek mythology. wantedinrome.com/news/rome-burg…

"“ ...books are the voices of the dead. They are a main instrument in communion with the vast human procession of the other world. They are the allies of the thought of men... In a room well filled with them, no one has felt or can feel solitary.” - William Ewart Gladstone