#  @LizzieHelenMay Elizabeth May Elizabeth May posts on X about london, edinburgh, in the, netherlands the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::1517771192786198530/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] -30% - [--] Month [-----] +1,463% - [--] Months [------] +41% - [--] Year [------] -74% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1517771192786198530/posts_active)  ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1517771192786198530/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +0.07% - [--] Month [-----] +0.25% - [--] Months [-----] +1.70% - [--] Year [-----] +5.40% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1517771192786198530/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [countries](/list/countries) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) [musicians](/list/musicians) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) **Social topic influence** [london](/topic/london), [edinburgh](/topic/edinburgh), [in the](/topic/in-the), [netherlands](/topic/netherlands), [to the](/topic/to-the), [amsterdam](/topic/amsterdam), [bruges](/topic/bruges), [lovely](/topic/lovely), [back to](/topic/back-to), [norway](/topic/norway) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@chrisbu03352910](/creator/undefined) [@dailypictheme2](/creator/undefined) [@martgathercole](/creator/undefined) [@wolterian](/creator/undefined) [@richard50942461](/creator/undefined) [@alanwilsonsp](/creator/undefined) [@sandymb1956](/creator/undefined) [@xobreex3](/creator/undefined) [@booksteafilms](/creator/undefined) [@hullsaddler](/creator/undefined) [@gallery365photo](/creator/undefined) [@tynesnapper](/creator/undefined) [@jasonrowphoto](/creator/undefined) [@richardmortime2](/creator/undefined) [@suhlabs](/creator/undefined) [@laidbymonty](/creator/undefined) [@suerobertson7](/creator/undefined) [@peterlewis55](/creator/undefined) [@danitahamel](/creator/undefined) [@keirasoleore](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Dave Inc. (DAVE)](/topic/$dave) [Spire Inc. (SR)](/topic/$sr) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@TyneSnapper Inside the recently restored north building" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1592099043878252545) 2022-11-14T10:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TyneSnapper .the southern entrance building" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1592099434443280384) 2022-11-14T10:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#SundayStonework with a dash of #SundayYellow" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1667828015173341184) 2023-06-11T09:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#rockinTuesday - a cliff face in old worked out Kaolinite mine. From [----] this mineral was extensively mined in Cornwall for the production of porcelain including for Wedgwood Spode and Minton" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1673638049098633216) 2023-06-27T10:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#pubsignthursday much to read on the many signs attached to the Bruce Arms Inn Falkland Fife" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1674337910672314373) 2023-06-29T21:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#thicktrunkTuesday - a lovely old yew in the churchyard of St Mary's Hendon from this time last year" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1678641769636941824) 2023-07-11T05:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@martgathercole @BethChattoGdns Looks like a beautiful garden π€©" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1678696718366375938) 2023-07-11T09:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#adoorableThursday - are you going through the one shilling door or the sixpenny door The truely wonderful gd II* listed Electric Palace Cinema Harwich dating from 1911" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1681949313985904640) 2023-07-20T08:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#transportationThursday - boats big and small - looking from Harwich beach across to Felixstowe container terminal" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1682012228546093063) 2023-07-20T20:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#sundialSunday A splendid brass sundial by instrument makers Watkins of Charring Cross which is set on a lectern in the form of a man's head. Inscrined with the Kennedy Clan motto 'Avice la Fine' (consider the end) it is in the grounds of Culzean Castle Ayrshire #Scotland" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1685515814475067392) 2023-08-06T07:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#postboxSaturday Splendid pair of 'improved wall boxes' Laurence Pountney Hill. Except of course here clearly set into the railings. Per the book the design dates from the 1860s" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1687902086724239360) 2023-08-06T21:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#manholecoverMonday - pavement history. London County Council purchased the existing tram network in [----] and ran it till [----] when the service was taken over by the newly created London Passenger Transport Board. These covers gave access to the electrical supply lines" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1688427751965876224) 2023-08-07T05:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#windowsWednesday George Heriot's School glimpsed thru' the Vennel gate Edinburgh. Truely a remarkable 17th century secular building - built using money from the will of the man who was the banker to James VI/I so no expense was spared" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1689226766928207872) 2023-08-09T10:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#bridgesThursday The Royal Tweed Bridge (1928) with Berwick Bridge (1611/24) behind. I have seen these bridges many many times from the train crossing the Royal Border Bridge (1850) on trips to and from Edinburgh and this is the best photo I have taken from the moving train" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1689526995447889920) 2023-08-10T06:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#staircaseSaturday - is this the most beautiful fire escape stair ever @jasonrowphoto https://t.co/wiU6TEqIQk @jasonrowphoto https://t.co/wiU6TEqIQk" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1690258817249071104) 2023-08-12T07:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#castleSaturday Craigmillar Castle Edinburgh's other castle. Set in a large peaceful park and with connections to Mary Queen of Scots it is well worth a visit" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1690261837143531521) 2023-08-12T07:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#posyboxSaturday - He ain't heavy he's my brother A Carron Ironworks box at Roseburn Edinburgh photographed last August" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1690295811270176768) 2023-08-12T09:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#Sundaystroll - on today's wee wander we discovered the HOOP - the Hitchin Outer Orbital Loop. Only covered a small section of this 12-mile walk but will definitely be back to do the complete circuit someday - hopefully earlier in the summer to catch the lavender fields in bloom" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1690793996694523904) 2023-08-13T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#allmetalMonday #gate with rare glimpse of blue sky" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1690964970304135168) 2023-08-14T05:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy #thicktrunkTuesday" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1691330629923991552) 2023-08-15T06:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#bridgesthursday A double-decker pedestrian bridge across the Spree in Belin links the parliament buildings of Marie Elisabeth Lders House to the Paul Lbe House; the former is on the line of the Berlin Wall so the bridge can be read as a symbol of the unity of East and West" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1692066707735478365) 2023-08-17T06:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@chrisbu03352910 Good morning Chris - have been enjoying your photos as ever this week : )" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1692106942817124643) 2023-08-17T09:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#fingerpostFriday -last year's visit to #Perth - behind is the roofless St Paul's Church which after falling into disrepair was stablised to create an outdoor performance space in 2017" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1692431634836890058) 2023-08-18T07:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "#pharosfriday Harwich Low Lighthouse. This port has had lighthouses since [----]. The orriginal low one was timber & lit by candle & this current one was built [----] (engineer John Rennie Snr). Superseded by Dovercourt in late 19th C & has had various uses since; now a small museum" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1692445163958792517) 2023-08-18T07:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#postboxSaturday - the promise of Award Winning Cornish Pasties has attracted a keen crowd of street furniture" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1692789735083606376) 2023-08-19T06:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#SteepleSaturday The tall & slender spire of the former St Andrew's URC Hebburn (tap) of [----]. The architect was R J Johnson & the church was a gift to the town by Andrew Leslie whose shipyard dominated the town. His company built over [---] ships & in its heyday employed 2600" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1692910331062841716) 2023-08-19T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#365in2023SundayChallenge Brighter than the New York light Kinder than the neon lights Warmer than any London lights Northern lights are humble lights my friend Big North Lights Martin Stephenson & the Dainties" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1693157165501145322) 2023-08-20T07:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's a bit late in the day for #shedsonsunday so maybe this much photographed shed in Eyemouth should be for #blueMonday #Mondayblue" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1693391246369157608) 2023-08-20T22:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#towerTuesday Crouch End has two contrasting towers- LHS of [----] was funded by public subscription to comemorate local politician Henry R Williams (arch Frederick Knight); RHS Dudock inspired Hornsey Town Hall of [----] (arch Reginald Harold Uren who also did John Lewis Oxford St)" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1693866338576392226) 2023-08-22T06:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@keeper_of_books #ThicktrunkTuesday A Northern Red Oak in #Maplewood NJ - the plaque calls it an 'old timer'" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1693890567053168671) 2023-08-22T07:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#windowsWednesday #wallsonWednesday Broadway Ho Crouch End of 1936/7 by Dawe & Carter. Built as the Electricity Board's showroom. The grid was a recent completion & the Board promoted modern/clean domestic appliannces in its showrooms. Rare concave glass see also Simpsons Store" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1694239295803154466) 2023-08-23T06:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#bridgesThursday a bascule bridge at St Peter's Marina basin Newcastle - crossed by two good long distance walks Hadrian's Wall National Trail & the one we were walking when this picture taken the North Tyne Trail" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1694586835899494718) 2023-08-24T05:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#pubsignThursday. A pub name peculiar to core West End London where there are [--] & previously [--] more. The blog suggests that these blue bollards signified places where a Sedan Chair could be hired in the 18th C; sort-of forerunners of taxi ranks. #bollards" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1694590862481637421) 2023-08-24T06:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Nearly forgot about #Thursdaychairs" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1694826421321879675) 2023-08-24T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#pubfrontFriday The Village Green Muswell Hill is not all it seems Once the Edwardian parade of shops continued to here but was destroyed by a bomb in WWII. Rebuilt as a pub it opened in [----] as the John Baird (TV studio at Ally Pally); renamed to honor other locals the Kinks" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1694972627842965779) 2023-08-25T07:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#fingerpostFriday - a memory from last year's walk from Perth to Stirling across the Ochills. The sign explaining the old route is faded but still interesting" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1695001065245306921) 2023-08-25T09:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#pharosFriday Trwyn Du (Penmon) Lighthouse Anglesey. Constructed [----] to designs of Scottish civil engineer James Walker (his grave is in St John's churchyard Edinburgh). He designed several other lighthouses as well as canals docks and railways" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1695010124962931152) 2023-08-25T09:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#steepleSaturday Hawksmoor's singular St Mary Woolnoth smack bang in the centre of the City. "And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine"" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1695318909551866043) 2023-08-26T06:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge There's a door in a wall in a house in a street In a town where no one knows her name She's the patience of angels Does she know I don't know But from here I can tell There's a door in a wall in a house in a street In a town where no one knows her name" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1695702688267391105) 2023-08-27T07:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge In walks a guy with a faraway look in his eyes He said "I've got a powerful horse outside Climb on the back I'll take you for a ride I know a little place We can get there 'fore the break of day" I said "In these shoes No way Jos" Kirsty MacColl" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1695797620470366608) 2023-08-27T13:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#allmetalMonday - Manchester this day last year" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1696065076397031575) 2023-08-28T07:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#tidesoutTuesday Trearddur Bay Holy Island Anglesey" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1696401795197661281) 2023-08-29T05:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#telephoneboxTuesday - was passing it today so here is a photo of the tomb that architect Sir John Soane designed for himself and a K2 kiosk which the archited Sir Giles Gilbert Scott showing how the design of one influenced the other" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1696559917342040522) 2023-08-29T16:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls - one of a series of [--] #sgraffito panels on the wall of the former Friern Manor Dairy building Crouch Hill (now the Old Dairy pub) the panels whcich date from c [----] depict scenes of grazing milking cooling butter making & delivery" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1696754871439913147) 2023-08-30T05:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#Thursgate one of two sets gates to St Pancras Gardens - dating from late 19th c when the old church graveyard was laid out as a public park by the local vestry. Only about [--] acres in size it has some fine trees & must have been a welcome oasis in what was then a dense urban area" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1697136133732249908) 2023-08-31T06:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#adoorableThursday the former Matthiae's Cafe Kew Road Richmond - now a Tesco" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1697270005069439122) 2023-08-31T15:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#fingerpostfriday As meteorological autumn begins here is evidence that we did have a few sunny days this summer (even although it was blowing a gale on this particular one)" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1697525397921882269) 2023-09-01T08:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#pubfrontFriday The Muswell Hillbilly Brewers Taproom. Located just a couple of doors from the brewery its name references the Kinks [----] album The Muswell Hillbillies - Ray & Dave Davies grew up minutes from this location" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1697548350017413443) 2023-09-01T09:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#postboxSaturday -this forgotten old Edward VIII on the Great North Road is still in need of a bit of a spruce up Paid more a ttention to the makers mark this time & think it is possible to make out Carron Ironwork" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1697837001959956641) 2023-09-02T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#Saturdaystatue 'Kindertransport' Harwich created [----] by sculptor @wolter_ian. This month sees the release of the film One Life which tells the remarkable story of Nicholas Winton who arranged for the rescue of hundreds of children from Czechoslovakia & certain death in 1938/9" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1697853862906859568) 2023-09-02T06:08Z [----] followers, 19.8K engagements "@MargyMayell @wolter_ian Harwich turned out to be well worth the visit : )" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1697898614939340990) 2023-09-02T09:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@martgathercole @wolter_ian Haha - think I have posted all my best photos now and will stand down the remainer Martin but it was indeed a rewarding visit π€©" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1697899968734928937) 2023-09-02T09:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge 'Cause I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy But my heart lies in old West Virginia Though my hills they're not green I've seen them in my dreams Take me back to those black hills that I ain't never seen Well I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy Ray Davies" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1698224807178092743) 2023-09-03T06:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#allmetalMonday The gates of Camley Street Natural Park a [--] acre wildlife haven on former railway/canal coal drops behind Kings X Station. Naure took over when the coal drops shut in the 1960s and the London Wildlife Trust now runs the park which opened in [----]. Bonus gas holder" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1698586188544913686) 2023-09-04T06:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#weeklyphotochallenge #ColourChallenge #Orange Splash of orange with a point of view" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1699098443019432045) 2023-09-05T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Am very happy to roll with this new #CheesyTuesday hashtag π" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1699138974915137645) 2023-09-05T19:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#woodensday the purpose of this pile of logs is sweetly explained by the wee sign - Camley Street Natural Park Kings Cross" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1699296619642995162) 2023-09-06T05:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#watertowerWednesday Grade II listed tower containing a tank to provide water for the Midland Railway's locomotives. In stye & materials very like St Pancras Hotel so assumed to also be from the office George Gilbert Scott" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1699302659923013752) 2023-09-06T06:05Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls An eighty year old Florence Nightingale had an input into the design of this [----] nurses' home provided partly* at the expense of London landowners the Howard de Waldens. Glazed bricks were considered hygenic and would have been easy to clean" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1699321282347819094) 2023-09-06T07:19Z [----] followers, 13.3K engagements "#TransportationThursday Coming through St Pancras Locks Regent's Canal. Families lived & worked on the barges on Britain's waterways & canals for nearly [---] years - wonder what they would make of people continuing to make these trips just for fun" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1699661272575283369) 2023-09-07T05:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#adoorablethursday A nurses' home built [----] to the designs Arthur E. Thompson. Unlike anything else of its time & described as 'eccentric Free Style Romanesque'" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1699668570563629215) 2023-09-07T06:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#allmetalMonday A 40ft bronze sculpture of a rusty nail by Gavin Turk - part of a shoping centre in the city designed by Jean Nouvel. The artist says 'It pins the bottom of the building down to the pavement' & links back to older building traditions where nails were a key element" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1699689458650517873) 2023-09-07T07:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "An old favourite from Cemaes Bay for #thursgate" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1699714313211040043) 2023-09-07T09:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#fridayurinal Alway happy to find something to post on this most niche of hashtags - the Attendant Cafe in Fitzrovia a cafe inside an 1890s underground gentleman's toilet. @RichardMortime2" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1700021647091323138) 2023-09-08T05:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#saturdayshipwreck Is this the remains of a WWII concrete tank barge Someone on Twitter is bound to know" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1700402154476028343) 2023-09-09T06:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#saturdaystairs The most extrordinary stairs in the world Thomas Heatherwick's structure 'Vessel' at Hudson Yards NY is made up of [----] steps and [--] landings. Climbing it gives extrordinary views here looking west over the rail yard & the Hudson River" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1700405174366593246) 2023-09-09T07:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#postboxSaturday this Victorian Handyside has seen many changes to the London skyline behind it (might need a tap) since it was installed" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1700494013378306546) 2023-09-09T12:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge When the jazzman's testifyin' a faithless man believes He can sing you into paradise or bring you to your knees It's a gospel kind of feelin' a touch of Georgia slide A song of pure revival and a style that's sanctified Jazzman take my blues away" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1700860172409967017) 2023-09-10T13:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#signsonSunday Despite the heat the evening light is taking on an autumnal feel #ghostsigns" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1700915285505532160) 2023-09-10T16:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#mistymorningMonday We have entered the Open House ballot for the BT Tower many many times This year we were successful & so we went up the tower yesterday only to find the mist was hanging over the river - shades of the London fogs of old" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1701098996201099376) 2023-09-11T05:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#allmetalMonday A 40ft bronze sculpture of a rusty nail by Gavin Turk part of a shoping centre in the city designed by Jean Nouvel. The artist says 'It pins the bottom of the building down to the pavement' & links back to older building traditions where nails were a key element" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1701122148683919458) 2023-09-11T06:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#Mondaysarebrutal Lauderdale Tower the Barbican in the September sunshine (as seen from the number [--] bus)" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1701142281225449801) 2023-09-11T07:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#tidesoutTuesday The River Thames at London is tidal and people do enjoy the beach which is exposed at low tide. Mudlarking is still a thing" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1701495861136805993) 2023-09-12T07:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#towerTuesday The BT Tower London was opened by Postmaster General Tony Benn in [----]. Now shorn of its microwave dishes since fibre optic cables came into use its revloving restaurant (run by Bultins) closed in [----] after a bomb & public viewing decks closed [----] - still iconic" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1701510205698425264) 2023-09-12T08:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#pubsignThursday Watling Street predates the Romans but they routed it thru London. This pub was built after Gt Fire & the upper floor which incorporates old ship's timbers was used as an office by Wren when overseeing the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702254862329672071) 2023-09-14T09:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#adoorableThursday Chandos Ho Marylebone - a little bit of Scotland in London. Designed by Robert Adam and built by Wm Adam & Co in [----]. Whats more the beautiful stone is from Edinburghs Craigleith Quarry" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702347370485187037) 2023-09-14T15:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A bit of juxtaposition for #transportationThursday - the wonderful bronze sculpture is 'Horse & Rider' by the late Dame Elizabeth Fink and dates from [----] (although not originally in this location)" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702432276028539275) 2023-09-14T21:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "William Pitt introduced income tax as a temporary measure in [----] - he would be astonished to learn that it was still a tax [---] years later Goodness knows what he would have thought about #Thursdaybins" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702435993041707168) 2023-09-14T21:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#fridayarchitecture Senate House Bloomsbury was the tallest secular building in London when completed in 1937; photo taken from BT Tower itself the tallest when completed in [----] (581 ft); large tower in background [--] Bishopsgate currently 2nd tallest in the city at [---] feet" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702576984793006469) 2023-09-15T06:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#ferrousFriday Not a UXB but a relic of the early aviation. US showman Samuel Cody met balloonist Auguste Gaudron while performing at the Ally Pally & it sparked his interest in kites which could lift humans into flight. This is a tether for such kites he demonstrated in 1903" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702589316273463799) 2023-09-15T07:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#pubfrontFriday Pubs are important in the urban landscape as markers of things that once were. The Victoria Stakes is a reminder that the nearby Alexandra Palace Park was the site of a racecourse for over [---] yrs till its closure in 1970" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702616243641979138) 2023-09-15T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#saturdaystairs The stairs up to the elevated walkway through the treetops at Kew Gardens. It was designed by architects Marks Barfield and opened in [----] as part of the Garden's Year of the Tree celebrations" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702942644324983162) 2023-09-16T07:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#postboxSaturday Not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702963280631747005) 2023-09-16T08:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#saturdayshopping - same concept different shopping experience" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1702987691204149336) 2023-09-16T10:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge Our one source of energy The ultimate discovery Electric blue for me Never more to be free Electricity Nuclear and HEB Come fuels from the sea Wasted electricity Our one source energy Electricity Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark @LakesStiles" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1703297482309222447) 2023-09-17T06:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#sundialSunday The way its shadow is cast the BT Tower is like the gnomon in a large sundial - all that's needed is for the hours to be marked out on the streets below" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1703304528819577256) 2023-09-17T07:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallange I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road Searchin' in the sun for another overload I hear you singing in the wire I can hear you through the whine And the Wichita lineman Is still on the line Jimmy Webb" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1703309058705686681) 2023-09-17T07:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#allmetalMonday Conversation with Magic Stones a late (1973) bronze by Barbara Hepworth seen in the grounds of Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art (Modern One) #thistimelastyear" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1703650057508053206) 2023-09-18T06:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Suhlabs #orange from NDSM Amsterdam" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1703824379019223384) 2023-09-18T17:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#telephoneboxTuesday - Grassmarket Edinburgh [--] September [----] #thistimelastyear" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1704021251692573118) 2023-09-19T06:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#thicktrunkTuesday An old ash Botanic Gardens #Edinburgh #thistimelastyear" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1704044152483086603) 2023-09-19T08:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls Stone is a wonderful material for building in curves & in #Edinburgh traditional round pepperpot staircases can be glimpsed on the rear facades of old tenement buildings #thistimelastyear" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1704378102841761987) 2023-09-20T06:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#waterWednesday & #waterfallWednesday at the Botanic Gardens #Edinburgh #thistimelastyear" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1704395467314925635) 2023-09-20T07:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#Thursgate with a teasing hint of #Thursdaychairs - the Grassmarket #Edinburgh #thistimelastyear" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1704760371817611506) 2023-09-21T07:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#PostboxSaturday Spotted this little cutie in Knaresborough yesterday" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1705489885098827807) 2023-09-23T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#postboxSaturday An old French post box in the gardens of the Horniman Museum SE London origins unknow but now used for collecting donations" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1705510816655527977) 2023-09-23T09:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#staircaseSaturday #Saturdaystaircase retweet" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1705640203283522005) 2023-09-23T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@chrisbu03352910 Morning Chris - hope you are enjoying Utrecht - loving your photos π" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1705851546200629289) 2023-09-24T07:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#signsonsunday #mural - this one takes the biscuit π" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1705853106624332103) 2023-09-24T07:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge The holy dove she will be caught again Bought and sold and bought again The dove is never free Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack a crack in everything That's how the light gets in Leonard Cohen" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1705881760846803079) 2023-09-24T09:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#telephoneboxTuesday A listed but unloved K2 in Forest Hill SE London. Behind is the Capitol Cinema designed 1928/9 by J Stanley Beard just as 'talkies' were introduced. The style is 'Art Deco Egyptian' which was popular following Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1706569794542244043) 2023-09-26T07:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#windowsWednesday #Wednesdaywindows #weathervaneWednesday - bandstand in the gardens of @HornimanMuseum. Beautifully restored by architects Walters & Cohen in [----] it enjoys great views over London & is available to hire including for weddings #shelterappreciationsociety" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1706910791461691406) 2023-09-27T05:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#windowsWednesday #wednesdaywindows Beautiful convex and concave glass at the former Simpsons Piccadilly (now Waterstones) by Joseph Emberton comp [----]. The concave glass truly does give the illusion of no glass" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1706930169166917695) 2023-09-27T07:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Not often I get to spot something for #signalboxSaturday so heres a wee gem recently seen in Broughty Ferry" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1708051331515040104) 2023-09-30T09:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#365in2023sundaychallenge Layering different sounds on top of each other Little fluffy clouds and er little fluffy clouds and er Little fluffy clouds and er little fluffy clouds and er What were the skies like when you were young They went on forever The Orb" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1708370660777419000) 2023-10-01T06:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "An old view of Edinburgh in celebration of #worldpostcardday - intrigued by the cryptic message & the fact that it wasnt written or posted in Edinburgh (1906)" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1708402209204166972) 2023-10-01T08:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@xobreex3 #rockinTuesday - Tarbat Ness in North-East Scotland is where the Great Glen Fault which created Loch Ness disappears into the North Sea" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1709095770270425503) 2023-10-03T06:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "First #thicktrunkTuesday of #October - trees still quite green but [--] Tuesdays this month so plenty of chances to see the colours develop" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1709114213702963389) 2023-10-03T07:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#thatchThursday - Leamach Cottage on the battlefield at Culloden; occupied until [----] it was gifted to @N_T_S with the battlefield in [----] and before the current visitor centre was built it functioned as a wee museum" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1709833061624377691) 2023-10-05T07:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#365in2023SundayChallenge Red light green light Speedin thru the dark night Drivin thru the pounding rain I gotta see Jane Freeway byway Tearin up the highway Runnin up a world insane Just gotta see Jane R Dean Taylor" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1710968819324183027) 2023-10-08T10:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#tilesonTuesday part [--] - these tiles adorn the entrance to the former Station Hotel Nairn. Thos Minton made china in Stoke from 1790s but the tile dept dates from [----] when Michael D Hollins became a patner. The building itslf dates from [----] when the town was a thriving resort" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1711637691488710803) 2023-10-10T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#tidesoutTuesday - evening cloud at West Beach Lossiemouth. A mesmeric place to watch the waves" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1711658072723296403) 2023-10-10T08:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#tombTuesday - bronze age cairn at Balnuaran of Clava one of a group of three each of which is surrounded by a stone circle" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1711691291434594413) 2023-10-10T10:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@SlingsbyElaine Moody skies : )" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1711839571556602036) 2023-10-10T20:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#transportationThursday -these old boats in the harbour at Annan not transporting much these days" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1712350384495222786) 2023-10-12T06:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Is it time to resurrect #cathedralthursday This is beautiful Carlisle Cathedral which was visited for the first time on our recent road trip (might need a wee tap) @fen_ken" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1712481970125730264) 2023-10-12T14:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#AllMetalMonday looking back towards Dundee from Broughty Ferry Harbour" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1713806982132478417) 2023-10-16T06:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#telephoneboxTuesday - the unique concrete phone kiosk in Pittencreiff Park Dunfermline. It was designed in [----] by the architect John Fraser who also did the town's Alhambra Cinema along with the Co-op Ice Rink & several schemes of council housing" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1714365590507344349) 2023-10-17T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This lovely photo captures just how 'highland' the landscape feels up on Arthur's Seat. This hill is the highest along the route of Edinburgh the Walk and fittingly it is th last one climbed" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1714910521990807957) 2023-10-19T07:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#fingerpostfriday #ferrousFriday - thinking of historic Brechin today as the heavy rain is falling on already saturated ground. This taken [--] weeks ago in the last storm. Lamp occupies site of former Mercat Cross where the "Old Pretender" was proclaimed King James VIII in 1715" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1715240679297966473) 2023-10-20T05:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#pharosFriday #ferrousFriday - calmer days in north-east Scotland one of the harbour lights at Nairn a couple of weeks ago" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1715248983898214447) 2023-10-20T06:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#SaturdayCinema - this little community-run cinema sits in a rugged location by the shore at #Cromarty in north-east Scotland - there is even an annual Film Festival here @cromartyfilms" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1715616656716603443) 2023-10-21T06:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#standingstoneSunday pt [--] St Demhan's Cross aka St Devenoc's Cross or the #CreichStone. A Scheduled Monument noted to be an Early Medieval cross slab dating from [---] AD to [----] AD. Nearly [--] ft tall it stands alone & has a rounded side (shown) and a flat one carved with a cross" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1715956146291265596) 2023-10-22T05:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#standingstoneSunday pt [--] St Demhan's Cross aka St Devenoc's Cross or the #CreichStone. The flat side of the stone with the now faint carving of an early Christian cross thought to mark the grave of St Demhan (also rememberd in ruined church nearby) but stone may be bronze age" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1715956395361907174) 2023-10-22T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#allmetalMonday - a cast-iron drinking fountain at Portmahomack - a No [--] from George Smith & Co.s Sun Foundry Glasgow. It was erected to celebrate the arrival of a piped water supply to the village in [----]. Inscribed in Gaelic 'Uisce Tobar Na Baistiad' (a water well of baptism)" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1716335644073713878) 2023-10-23T06:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#stormhour #thephotohour - after Storm Babet we were treated to this calm sunshine & autumn colour on early Sunday [--] October [--] at Kew Gardens @StormHour @ThePhotoHour" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1716391128436461887) 2023-10-23T09:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls A lovely semi-circular gable on this barrel-vaulted commercial ice house in #Cromarty. Pre refridgeration the ice was needed to preserve the fish landed by the local boats for onward transport & it was probably brought from Norway in huge blocks" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1717068473052868792) 2023-10-25T06:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#woodensday On this day last year was passing through Penn Station Newark New Jersey. Designed by McKim Mead & White it was constructed in 1935/7 and still retains many beautiful orriginal features including these inlaid benches in the main concourse" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1717108235038327175) 2023-10-25T09:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#FungiFriday - from a walk round the coast at #Cromarty earlier this month. i only recognise the puffball" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1717817156522361142) 2023-10-27T08:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#sundialSunday - (needs a tap) unusual scaphe/scaife sundials set in the base of a new mercat cross created for Inverness in [----] by the late sculptor Gerald Laing. This type of sundial is said to date back to Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos in 3rd C BC" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1718519534573994423) 2023-10-29T06:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#365in2023SundayChallenge I love you for your pink Cadillac Crushed velvet seats Riding in the back Cruising down the street Waving to the girls Feeling out of sight Spending all my money On a Saturday night Pink Cadillac Bruce Springsteen" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1718547720066175327) 2023-10-29T08:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Cyndiloowhen I know nothing about cars so can't actually tell if it is a cadillac but it looks like what I imagine a cadillac looks like π" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1718567648177410237) 2023-10-29T09:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge All we need is music sweet music There'll be music everywhere There'll be swingin' and swayin' and records playing Dancing in the street Oh it doesn't matter what you wear Just as long as you are there Marvin Gaye Ivy Hunter William Stevenson" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1718626489791590680) 2023-10-29T13:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#standingstoneSunday part of the ring of stones surrounding the (north-east) chambered cairn at Balnuaran of Clava near Inverness" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1718643276146753903) 2023-10-29T14:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@postcard13 What a fabulous photo π€©Like so many others I had a Saturday job (plus [--] nights after school) at Lows - it was in the days of the yellow uniform with the brown trim" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1718889984399135041) 2023-10-30T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge (#Halloween bonus) I'm gonna tell you all the things my heart's been a-dyin' to be sayin' Just like a ghost you've been a-hauntin' my dreams But now I know You're not what you seem Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little boy like you Spooky ah Dusty" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1719367119522136327) 2023-10-31T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@MrWhoCapture #architecture St Bartholomew's Church Smithfield London" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1719658696261685348) 2023-11-01T10:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#WetWednesday Waterfall manmade weir and wooden lade taking the water's power to the mill. Ulvik Norway" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1719680123417321530) 2023-11-01T11:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@DailyPicTheme2 #DailyPictureTheme #Favourite from October - sunset in Lossiemouth" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1719763286063829324) 2023-11-01T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#pubfrontFriday pt [--]. This inn is shown with the name Blue Bell on maps from [----] & may be named for the song 'Bluebells of Scotland'. This song was writen c [----] by a actress named Dora Jordan and it was such a popular hit that the composer Joseph Haydn set it to music" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1720446463728128348) 2023-11-03T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#museumMonday - pt1 Tarbat Discovery Centre Portmahomack is a museum dedicated to the story of & the finds from an archaeological excavation of the [----] which unearthed a major Pictish monastic settlement here active 6/8th centuries AD & later. The building itself is the" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1721422160428998663) 2023-11-06T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#museumMonday - pt2 Tarbat Discovery Centre Portmahomack is house in the former West Church built c [----] - both the church and the buril ground stand on the site of the former Pictish settlement" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1721422412355408289) 2023-11-06T07:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#tidesoutTuesday - where the Cockle Burn meets the Firth of Forth; Cramond Island in the distance" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1724318746817466855) 2023-11-14T06:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#TilesOnTuesday The gII listed York & Albany PH is a Regency building the first construction of John Nash's Park Village East London. The lovely glazed tile frontage was added in the 1920s. As a combination it shouldn't work but it does" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1724384707092127968) 2023-11-14T11:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#woodensday - frieze above the door of Liberty London; as befits a building in the Arts & Crafts style it depicts craftsmen at work" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1724741464691781695) 2023-11-15T10:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#shopfrontFriday - the Gt Marlborough Street frontage of Liberty London. This is quite a late example of Arts and Crafts style being built in 1920s" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1725480898756305394) 2023-11-17T11:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "More #treeclub than #thicktrunkTuesday a sugar maple snapped in Washington last year - feel there hasn't been much red evident in local trees this autumn" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1726903286970634487) 2023-11-21T10:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#ferrousFriday Decorative Art Nouveau grilles which are part of the ventillation at Mornington Crescent Tube Station London. Opned in [----] the station was designed by architect Leslie Green & is grade II listed" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1727951936937476392) 2023-11-24T07:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#fountainFriday One of [--] fountains installed in the Avenue Gardens at Regents Park London when this section of the park was restored to the 1860's design of Wm A Nesfield (also worked on Kew Gdn). The fountains were made from artificial stone using designs from old catalogues" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1727972321317851149) 2023-11-24T08:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#CeilingsonSunday - yup another station This utterly splendid ceiling is Union Station Washingto USA" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1728710183092625671) 2023-11-26T09:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#365in2023Sundaychallenge My Maserati does one-eighty-five I lost my license now I don't drive I have a limo ride in the back I lock the doors in case I'm attacked I'm makin' records my fans they can't wait They write me letters tell me I'm great Jo Walsh" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1728771839445667877) 2023-11-26T13:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#Wednesdaywindows Glass dating from a London pub rebuild of [----] showing Wm Younger - this Scottish brewer began in [----] in Edinburgh & from [----] developed the massive Abbey Brewery. The company identity was lost in a merger with McEwan's in [----] prompted by the Great Depression" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1729787784330960979) 2023-11-29T09:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#staircaseSaturday - the ancient stone stairs up to the tower of York Minster" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1730829145662489020) 2023-12-02T06:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#spireSaturday - spires on one of the towers of the west front of York Minster as seen from the top of the main tower" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1730886775243980893) 2023-12-02T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Such beautiful ripples in the sand π€©" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1732129813090222318) 2023-12-05T20:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "What fabulous patterns the rocks make on this beach Jeni π€©" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1732130990624006429) 2023-12-05T20:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#retailhistory Burton's 1930s store is in a more conservative neo-classical style than their usual which was deemed more suitable for this historic city. Unusually it has [--] foundations stones - one laid by each of his sons Stanley Raymond & Arnold @LaidByMonty" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1732297319771693218) 2023-12-06T07:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls St Leonard's Pl just outside the medieval walls of York. Comp [----] (btwn Regency and Victorian; never know how to classify this decade) to designs of John Harper. The terrace displays at attempt at elegant planning as seen at Bath or Edinburgh" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1732333306912604484) 2023-12-06T09:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#Thursgate This magnificent gate on display at the National Railway Museum in York was created in [----] & fitted to Philip Hardwick's giant doric arch at Euston Station. Must have created quite an impression on those early users of the London & Birmingham Railway. Arch demol 1961" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1732667257258430925) 2023-12-07T07:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#cinemaSaturday -Regent Street Cinema where in [----] there was a performance of the first moving picture to be shown in the country. It was made by the Lumire Brothers; presumably it was the film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory which they previewed in Paris in 1895" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1733392787922432185) 2023-12-09T07:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@TheSneakyLens Amsterdam" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1734319959256281584) 2023-12-11T21:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@DailyPicTheme2 #DailyPictureTheme #cityview Amsterdam at night from the Adam Tower" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1734491606789550493) 2023-12-12T08:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#thicktrunkTuesday - signs of festivities approaching" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1734504143627415591) 2023-12-12T09:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Like an abstract painting in the sand π€©" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1734669881692266936) 2023-12-12T20:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Beautiful black sand & definately the furthest TidesoutTuesday location ever Has to look it up & in the process discovered it is the Antipode of Len Spain so doubt we will see anything from furher away π€©" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1734672821031158148) 2023-12-12T20:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Cornish coast sure has it all - the sand the cliffs the light π€©" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1734674756706693592) 2023-12-12T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Always excited to find something for #fridayurinal This beautiful brick structure dates from [----] & was designed by Deventer City arch Uytenhout & remained in use in that city for [--] years; now to be found at the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem (inside is just a mannequin)" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1735582969723527318) 2023-12-15T08:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#postboxSaturday - one of the old postboxes saved at the Netherlands Open Air Museum" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1735949384280387603) 2023-12-16T09:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@RichardMortime2 Ahem π" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1736176714474999876) 2023-12-17T00:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#Sundayyellow slips into #blueMonday as you wait for the tram at this stop at the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem. #ShelterAppreciationSociety" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1736465283630649797) 2023-12-17T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#museumMonday The Open Air Museum Arnhem a national museum focusing on the culture associated with the everyday lives of ordinary people in the Netherlands. A lovely place to wander on a winter's afternoon (& optional opportunities for Christmas shopping if desired). Think" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1736630874765246701) 2023-12-18T06:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#thatchThursday - the collection of old farmhouses at the Netherlands Open Air Museum are so beautiful but their interiors - one large room shared by the farming family and their livestock - are a reminder of how hard rural life was well into the 20th century" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1737716276661760164) 2023-12-21T06:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#transportationThursday - even Santa loves a London bus" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1737859722043376009) 2023-12-21T15:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#ferrousFriday festive tram rails Amsterdam" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1738083194266619906) 2023-12-22T06:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#365in2023SundayChallenge And you said it was like Christmas But you were wrong It wasn't like Christmas at all. By the time we got to Oslo The snow was gone And we got lost The beds were small But we felt so young. It was just like Christmas Low Just Like Christmas" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1738788340655145428) 2023-12-24T05:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#ceilingsonSunday - the white & gold painted plaster ceiling of the [---] year old St Mary le Strand London. The architect James Gibbs had recently returned from Rome & his treatment of the ceiling is beleived to be influenced by the work of Luigi Fontana in that city" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1738813758145761471) 2023-12-24T06:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#woodensday wooden die in a decades old board game dug out from the depths of the cupboard and played (ruthlessly) by the family this Christmas" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739902934874571112) 2023-12-27T06:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@sue_robertson7 Haha - correct on both counts Sue π" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1739914978126123184) 2023-12-27T07:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@sue_robertson7 Well in the sense that I think it is our new family favourite π" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1739915438484533518) 2023-12-27T07:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#friezeFriday thought it might be a good time to visit the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles at the British musuem to try and understand why they evoke such strong feelings on both sides of the argument #pano" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1740641300481970608) 2023-12-29T07:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@martgathercole Ill get there one day Martin π" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740648299705536700) 2023-12-29T08:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@PeterLewis55 Not sure Peter - think I may now have to go and see the Athens site (as @martgathercole suggests) to weigh up the other side of the argument But I did enjoy seeing them - they are an amazing artwork" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1740649391499956611) 2023-12-29T08:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@PeterLewis55 @martgathercole Must look them up" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1740651331730178302) 2023-12-29T08:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Fabulous Ian π€© Did you get a round of golf in atKilspindie while you were there #TidesOutTuesday at Kilspindie on the west side of Aberlady Bay being enjoyed by [--] Shelducks & revealing one of the [--] late 19th/early 20th c fishing-boat wrecks that are designated a maritime scheduled ancient monument. #EastLothian https://t.co/u0jt4rj1fm #TidesOutTuesday at Kilspindie on the west side of Aberlady Bay being enjoyed by [--] Shelducks & revealing one of the [--] late 19th/early 20th c fishing-boat wrecks that are designated a maritime scheduled ancient monument. #EastLothian https://t.co/u0jt4rj1fm" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1742259358925312233) 2024-01-02T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@BooksTeaFilms Lovely shot - is the library back to normal after its cyber attack" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1742460488049418589) 2024-01-03T08:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#Gallery365SundayMusic Listen to the wind blow watch the sun rise Running in the shadows damn your love damn your lies And if you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (never break the chain) Fleetwood Mac" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1743915374037365230) 2024-01-07T08:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#MilestoneMonday an 18th C milestone in Highgate Villge inscribed 'IV miles from Saint Giles Pound'; this was a cattle pound at St Giles Circus (roughly corner of Tottenham Ct Rd Oxford St & St Giles High St) which was the point from which distances from London were measured" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1744280530236166287) 2024-01-08T08:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#blueMonday #Mondayblue - glittery geegwas at Camden Market complimenting the winter sky" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1744365844996493448) 2024-01-08T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@MikeHBates So beautiful Mike - I can see why it is a favourite. Am ashamed to say I have never visited" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1746089194789748897) 2024-01-13T08:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#Gallery365SundayMusic Purple haze all in my brain Lately things they don't seem the same Actin' funny but I don't know why Excuse me while I kiss the sky Purple haze all around Don't know if I'm comin' up or down Am I happy or in misery Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1746421135129051204) 2024-01-14T06:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#manholecoverMonday - they come in many varieties in Las Palmas - watch this space" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1746803655603573024) 2024-01-15T07:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@perryralph Hi Perry - this one is from Kinsarvik in Norway" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1747205706934059463) 2024-01-16T10:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TimMcGr9868 @Suhlabs Very nice π€©" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1747672418930335887) 2024-01-17T17:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "#forestFriday - the pine forests on Gran Canaria are remarkable in that they grow on the thin soils of the volcano & up to an altitude of [----] ft where the tree's long needles are said to 'comb the water out of clouds' allowing it to thrive on this dry island" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1748257485188939822) 2024-01-19T08:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#AlphabetChallenge #WeekD - D is for diaphanous dress design" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1749586809439359444) 2024-01-23T00:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#Saturdaystaircase #staircaseSaturday" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1751162879603286130) 2024-01-27T08:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#PostboxSaturday Crying out for a coat of paint" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1751204403246457254) 2024-01-27T11:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@martgathercole @EssexBirdNews @EWTFingringhoe @ESBR_Essex @SwallowBirding @stuttonsparrows Looks like you had a lovely day. Top right photo is like a painting π Oh and very nice fence too" [X Link](https://x.com/LizzieHelenMay/status/1751680526031667345) 2024-01-28T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#Mondayblue or #tilesonTuesday There has been a lot of artistic input into the decoration of London tube stations over the years; the horse design for Blackhorse Road was by Hans Unger in [----] for the then new Victoria Line" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1751883880557171145) 2024-01-29T08:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#tilesonTuesday - this beautiful shopfront c1916 is evidence of the centuries old provisioning of London with milk from Welsh farms. This shop was a short cart ride from Paddington Station were milk was brought by train starting in the 1840s; first in churns & from c1930 waggons" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1752235447030251774) 2024-01-30T07:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. 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@LizzieHelenMay Elizabeth MayElizabeth May posts on X about london, edinburgh, in the, netherlands the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@TyneSnapper Inside the recently restored north building"
X Link 2022-11-14T10:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TyneSnapper .the southern entrance building"
X Link 2022-11-14T10:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#SundayStonework with a dash of #SundayYellow"
X Link 2023-06-11T09:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#rockinTuesday - a cliff face in old worked out Kaolinite mine. From [----] this mineral was extensively mined in Cornwall for the production of porcelain including for Wedgwood Spode and Minton"
X Link 2023-06-27T10:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#pubsignthursday much to read on the many signs attached to the Bruce Arms Inn Falkland Fife"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#thicktrunkTuesday - a lovely old yew in the churchyard of St Mary's Hendon from this time last year"
X Link 2023-07-11T05:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@martgathercole @BethChattoGdns Looks like a beautiful garden π€©"
X Link 2023-07-11T09:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#adoorableThursday - are you going through the one shilling door or the sixpenny door The truely wonderful gd II* listed Electric Palace Cinema Harwich dating from 1911"
X Link 2023-07-20T08:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#transportationThursday - boats big and small - looking from Harwich beach across to Felixstowe container terminal"
X Link 2023-07-20T20:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#sundialSunday A splendid brass sundial by instrument makers Watkins of Charring Cross which is set on a lectern in the form of a man's head. Inscrined with the Kennedy Clan motto 'Avice la Fine' (consider the end) it is in the grounds of Culzean Castle Ayrshire #Scotland"
X Link 2023-08-06T07:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#postboxSaturday Splendid pair of 'improved wall boxes' Laurence Pountney Hill. Except of course here clearly set into the railings. Per the book the design dates from the 1860s"
X Link 2023-08-06T21:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#manholecoverMonday - pavement history. London County Council purchased the existing tram network in [----] and ran it till [----] when the service was taken over by the newly created London Passenger Transport Board. These covers gave access to the electrical supply lines"
X Link 2023-08-07T05:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#windowsWednesday George Heriot's School glimpsed thru' the Vennel gate Edinburgh. Truely a remarkable 17th century secular building - built using money from the will of the man who was the banker to James VI/I so no expense was spared"
X Link 2023-08-09T10:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#bridgesThursday The Royal Tweed Bridge (1928) with Berwick Bridge (1611/24) behind. I have seen these bridges many many times from the train crossing the Royal Border Bridge (1850) on trips to and from Edinburgh and this is the best photo I have taken from the moving train"
X Link 2023-08-10T06:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#staircaseSaturday - is this the most beautiful fire escape stair ever @jasonrowphoto https://t.co/wiU6TEqIQk @jasonrowphoto https://t.co/wiU6TEqIQk"
X Link 2023-08-12T07:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#castleSaturday Craigmillar Castle Edinburgh's other castle. Set in a large peaceful park and with connections to Mary Queen of Scots it is well worth a visit"
X Link 2023-08-12T07:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#posyboxSaturday - He ain't heavy he's my brother A Carron Ironworks box at Roseburn Edinburgh photographed last August"
X Link 2023-08-12T09:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#Sundaystroll - on today's wee wander we discovered the HOOP - the Hitchin Outer Orbital Loop. Only covered a small section of this 12-mile walk but will definitely be back to do the complete circuit someday - hopefully earlier in the summer to catch the lavender fields in bloom"
X Link 2023-08-13T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#allmetalMonday #gate with rare glimpse of blue sky"
X Link 2023-08-14T05:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy #thicktrunkTuesday"
X Link 2023-08-15T06:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#bridgesthursday A double-decker pedestrian bridge across the Spree in Belin links the parliament buildings of Marie Elisabeth Lders House to the Paul Lbe House; the former is on the line of the Berlin Wall so the bridge can be read as a symbol of the unity of East and West"
X Link 2023-08-17T06:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@chrisbu03352910 Good morning Chris - have been enjoying your photos as ever this week : )"
X Link 2023-08-17T09:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#fingerpostFriday -last year's visit to #Perth - behind is the roofless St Paul's Church which after falling into disrepair was stablised to create an outdoor performance space in 2017"
X Link 2023-08-18T07:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"#pharosfriday Harwich Low Lighthouse. This port has had lighthouses since [----]. The orriginal low one was timber & lit by candle & this current one was built [----] (engineer John Rennie Snr). Superseded by Dovercourt in late 19th C & has had various uses since; now a small museum"
X Link 2023-08-18T07:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#postboxSaturday - the promise of Award Winning Cornish Pasties has attracted a keen crowd of street furniture"
X Link 2023-08-19T06:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SteepleSaturday The tall & slender spire of the former St Andrew's URC Hebburn (tap) of [----]. The architect was R J Johnson & the church was a gift to the town by Andrew Leslie whose shipyard dominated the town. His company built over [---] ships & in its heyday employed 2600"
X Link 2023-08-19T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#365in2023SundayChallenge Brighter than the New York light Kinder than the neon lights Warmer than any London lights Northern lights are humble lights my friend Big North Lights Martin Stephenson & the Dainties"
X Link 2023-08-20T07:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's a bit late in the day for #shedsonsunday so maybe this much photographed shed in Eyemouth should be for #blueMonday #Mondayblue"
X Link 2023-08-20T22:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#towerTuesday Crouch End has two contrasting towers- LHS of [----] was funded by public subscription to comemorate local politician Henry R Williams (arch Frederick Knight); RHS Dudock inspired Hornsey Town Hall of [----] (arch Reginald Harold Uren who also did John Lewis Oxford St)"
X Link 2023-08-22T06:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@keeper_of_books #ThicktrunkTuesday A Northern Red Oak in #Maplewood NJ - the plaque calls it an 'old timer'"
X Link 2023-08-22T07:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#windowsWednesday #wallsonWednesday Broadway Ho Crouch End of 1936/7 by Dawe & Carter. Built as the Electricity Board's showroom. The grid was a recent completion & the Board promoted modern/clean domestic appliannces in its showrooms. Rare concave glass see also Simpsons Store"
X Link 2023-08-23T06:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#bridgesThursday a bascule bridge at St Peter's Marina basin Newcastle - crossed by two good long distance walks Hadrian's Wall National Trail & the one we were walking when this picture taken the North Tyne Trail"
X Link 2023-08-24T05:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#pubsignThursday. A pub name peculiar to core West End London where there are [--] & previously [--] more. The blog suggests that these blue bollards signified places where a Sedan Chair could be hired in the 18th C; sort-of forerunners of taxi ranks. #bollards"
X Link 2023-08-24T06:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Nearly forgot about #Thursdaychairs"
X Link 2023-08-24T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#pubfrontFriday The Village Green Muswell Hill is not all it seems Once the Edwardian parade of shops continued to here but was destroyed by a bomb in WWII. Rebuilt as a pub it opened in [----] as the John Baird (TV studio at Ally Pally); renamed to honor other locals the Kinks"
X Link 2023-08-25T07:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#fingerpostFriday - a memory from last year's walk from Perth to Stirling across the Ochills. The sign explaining the old route is faded but still interesting"
X Link 2023-08-25T09:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#pharosFriday Trwyn Du (Penmon) Lighthouse Anglesey. Constructed [----] to designs of Scottish civil engineer James Walker (his grave is in St John's churchyard Edinburgh). He designed several other lighthouses as well as canals docks and railways"
X Link 2023-08-25T09:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#steepleSaturday Hawksmoor's singular St Mary Woolnoth smack bang in the centre of the City. "And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine""
X Link 2023-08-26T06:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge There's a door in a wall in a house in a street In a town where no one knows her name She's the patience of angels Does she know I don't know But from here I can tell There's a door in a wall in a house in a street In a town where no one knows her name"
X Link 2023-08-27T07:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge In walks a guy with a faraway look in his eyes He said "I've got a powerful horse outside Climb on the back I'll take you for a ride I know a little place We can get there 'fore the break of day" I said "In these shoes No way Jos" Kirsty MacColl"
X Link 2023-08-27T13:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#allmetalMonday - Manchester this day last year"
X Link 2023-08-28T07:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#tidesoutTuesday Trearddur Bay Holy Island Anglesey"
X Link 2023-08-29T05:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#telephoneboxTuesday - was passing it today so here is a photo of the tomb that architect Sir John Soane designed for himself and a K2 kiosk which the archited Sir Giles Gilbert Scott showing how the design of one influenced the other"
X Link 2023-08-29T16:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls - one of a series of [--] #sgraffito panels on the wall of the former Friern Manor Dairy building Crouch Hill (now the Old Dairy pub) the panels whcich date from c [----] depict scenes of grazing milking cooling butter making & delivery"
X Link 2023-08-30T05:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#Thursgate one of two sets gates to St Pancras Gardens - dating from late 19th c when the old church graveyard was laid out as a public park by the local vestry. Only about [--] acres in size it has some fine trees & must have been a welcome oasis in what was then a dense urban area"
X Link 2023-08-31T06:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#adoorableThursday the former Matthiae's Cafe Kew Road Richmond - now a Tesco"
X Link 2023-08-31T15:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#fingerpostfriday As meteorological autumn begins here is evidence that we did have a few sunny days this summer (even although it was blowing a gale on this particular one)"
X Link 2023-09-01T08:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#pubfrontFriday The Muswell Hillbilly Brewers Taproom. Located just a couple of doors from the brewery its name references the Kinks [----] album The Muswell Hillbillies - Ray & Dave Davies grew up minutes from this location"
X Link 2023-09-01T09:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#postboxSaturday -this forgotten old Edward VIII on the Great North Road is still in need of a bit of a spruce up Paid more a ttention to the makers mark this time & think it is possible to make out Carron Ironwork"
X Link 2023-09-02T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#Saturdaystatue 'Kindertransport' Harwich created [----] by sculptor @wolter_ian. This month sees the release of the film One Life which tells the remarkable story of Nicholas Winton who arranged for the rescue of hundreds of children from Czechoslovakia & certain death in 1938/9"
X Link 2023-09-02T06:08Z [----] followers, 19.8K engagements
"@MargyMayell @wolter_ian Harwich turned out to be well worth the visit : )"
X Link 2023-09-02T09:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@martgathercole @wolter_ian Haha - think I have posted all my best photos now and will stand down the remainer Martin but it was indeed a rewarding visit π€©"
X Link 2023-09-02T09:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge 'Cause I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy But my heart lies in old West Virginia Though my hills they're not green I've seen them in my dreams Take me back to those black hills that I ain't never seen Well I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy Ray Davies"
X Link 2023-09-03T06:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#allmetalMonday The gates of Camley Street Natural Park a [--] acre wildlife haven on former railway/canal coal drops behind Kings X Station. Naure took over when the coal drops shut in the 1960s and the London Wildlife Trust now runs the park which opened in [----]. Bonus gas holder"
X Link 2023-09-04T06:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#weeklyphotochallenge #ColourChallenge #Orange Splash of orange with a point of view"
X Link 2023-09-05T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Am very happy to roll with this new #CheesyTuesday hashtag π"
X Link 2023-09-05T19:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#woodensday the purpose of this pile of logs is sweetly explained by the wee sign - Camley Street Natural Park Kings Cross"
X Link 2023-09-06T05:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#watertowerWednesday Grade II listed tower containing a tank to provide water for the Midland Railway's locomotives. In stye & materials very like St Pancras Hotel so assumed to also be from the office George Gilbert Scott"
X Link 2023-09-06T06:05Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls An eighty year old Florence Nightingale had an input into the design of this [----] nurses' home provided partly* at the expense of London landowners the Howard de Waldens. Glazed bricks were considered hygenic and would have been easy to clean"
X Link 2023-09-06T07:19Z [----] followers, 13.3K engagements
"#TransportationThursday Coming through St Pancras Locks Regent's Canal. Families lived & worked on the barges on Britain's waterways & canals for nearly [---] years - wonder what they would make of people continuing to make these trips just for fun"
X Link 2023-09-07T05:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#adoorablethursday A nurses' home built [----] to the designs Arthur E. Thompson. Unlike anything else of its time & described as 'eccentric Free Style Romanesque'"
X Link 2023-09-07T06:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#allmetalMonday A 40ft bronze sculpture of a rusty nail by Gavin Turk - part of a shoping centre in the city designed by Jean Nouvel. The artist says 'It pins the bottom of the building down to the pavement' & links back to older building traditions where nails were a key element"
X Link 2023-09-07T07:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"An old favourite from Cemaes Bay for #thursgate"
X Link 2023-09-07T09:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#fridayurinal Alway happy to find something to post on this most niche of hashtags - the Attendant Cafe in Fitzrovia a cafe inside an 1890s underground gentleman's toilet. @RichardMortime2"
X Link 2023-09-08T05:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#saturdayshipwreck Is this the remains of a WWII concrete tank barge Someone on Twitter is bound to know"
X Link 2023-09-09T06:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#saturdaystairs The most extrordinary stairs in the world Thomas Heatherwick's structure 'Vessel' at Hudson Yards NY is made up of [----] steps and [--] landings. Climbing it gives extrordinary views here looking west over the rail yard & the Hudson River"
X Link 2023-09-09T07:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#postboxSaturday this Victorian Handyside has seen many changes to the London skyline behind it (might need a tap) since it was installed"
X Link 2023-09-09T12:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge When the jazzman's testifyin' a faithless man believes He can sing you into paradise or bring you to your knees It's a gospel kind of feelin' a touch of Georgia slide A song of pure revival and a style that's sanctified Jazzman take my blues away"
X Link 2023-09-10T13:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#signsonSunday Despite the heat the evening light is taking on an autumnal feel #ghostsigns"
X Link 2023-09-10T16:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#mistymorningMonday We have entered the Open House ballot for the BT Tower many many times This year we were successful & so we went up the tower yesterday only to find the mist was hanging over the river - shades of the London fogs of old"
X Link 2023-09-11T05:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#allmetalMonday A 40ft bronze sculpture of a rusty nail by Gavin Turk part of a shoping centre in the city designed by Jean Nouvel. The artist says 'It pins the bottom of the building down to the pavement' & links back to older building traditions where nails were a key element"
X Link 2023-09-11T06:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#Mondaysarebrutal Lauderdale Tower the Barbican in the September sunshine (as seen from the number [--] bus)"
X Link 2023-09-11T07:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#tidesoutTuesday The River Thames at London is tidal and people do enjoy the beach which is exposed at low tide. Mudlarking is still a thing"
X Link 2023-09-12T07:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#towerTuesday The BT Tower London was opened by Postmaster General Tony Benn in [----]. Now shorn of its microwave dishes since fibre optic cables came into use its revloving restaurant (run by Bultins) closed in [----] after a bomb & public viewing decks closed [----] - still iconic"
X Link 2023-09-12T08:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#pubsignThursday Watling Street predates the Romans but they routed it thru London. This pub was built after Gt Fire & the upper floor which incorporates old ship's timbers was used as an office by Wren when overseeing the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral"
X Link 2023-09-14T09:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#adoorableThursday Chandos Ho Marylebone - a little bit of Scotland in London. Designed by Robert Adam and built by Wm Adam & Co in [----]. Whats more the beautiful stone is from Edinburghs Craigleith Quarry"
X Link 2023-09-14T15:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A bit of juxtaposition for #transportationThursday - the wonderful bronze sculpture is 'Horse & Rider' by the late Dame Elizabeth Fink and dates from [----] (although not originally in this location)"
X Link 2023-09-14T21:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"William Pitt introduced income tax as a temporary measure in [----] - he would be astonished to learn that it was still a tax [---] years later Goodness knows what he would have thought about #Thursdaybins"
X Link 2023-09-14T21:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#fridayarchitecture Senate House Bloomsbury was the tallest secular building in London when completed in 1937; photo taken from BT Tower itself the tallest when completed in [----] (581 ft); large tower in background [--] Bishopsgate currently 2nd tallest in the city at [---] feet"
X Link 2023-09-15T06:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#ferrousFriday Not a UXB but a relic of the early aviation. US showman Samuel Cody met balloonist Auguste Gaudron while performing at the Ally Pally & it sparked his interest in kites which could lift humans into flight. This is a tether for such kites he demonstrated in 1903"
X Link 2023-09-15T07:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#pubfrontFriday Pubs are important in the urban landscape as markers of things that once were. The Victoria Stakes is a reminder that the nearby Alexandra Palace Park was the site of a racecourse for over [---] yrs till its closure in 1970"
X Link 2023-09-15T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#saturdaystairs The stairs up to the elevated walkway through the treetops at Kew Gardens. It was designed by architects Marks Barfield and opened in [----] as part of the Garden's Year of the Tree celebrations"
X Link 2023-09-16T07:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#postboxSaturday Not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea"
X Link 2023-09-16T08:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#saturdayshopping - same concept different shopping experience"
X Link 2023-09-16T10:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge Our one source of energy The ultimate discovery Electric blue for me Never more to be free Electricity Nuclear and HEB Come fuels from the sea Wasted electricity Our one source energy Electricity Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark @LakesStiles"
X Link 2023-09-17T06:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#sundialSunday The way its shadow is cast the BT Tower is like the gnomon in a large sundial - all that's needed is for the hours to be marked out on the streets below"
X Link 2023-09-17T07:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallange I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road Searchin' in the sun for another overload I hear you singing in the wire I can hear you through the whine And the Wichita lineman Is still on the line Jimmy Webb"
X Link 2023-09-17T07:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#allmetalMonday Conversation with Magic Stones a late (1973) bronze by Barbara Hepworth seen in the grounds of Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art (Modern One) #thistimelastyear"
X Link 2023-09-18T06:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Suhlabs #orange from NDSM Amsterdam"
X Link 2023-09-18T17:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#telephoneboxTuesday - Grassmarket Edinburgh [--] September [----] #thistimelastyear"
X Link 2023-09-19T06:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#thicktrunkTuesday An old ash Botanic Gardens #Edinburgh #thistimelastyear"
X Link 2023-09-19T08:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls Stone is a wonderful material for building in curves & in #Edinburgh traditional round pepperpot staircases can be glimpsed on the rear facades of old tenement buildings #thistimelastyear"
X Link 2023-09-20T06:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#waterWednesday & #waterfallWednesday at the Botanic Gardens #Edinburgh #thistimelastyear"
X Link 2023-09-20T07:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#Thursgate with a teasing hint of #Thursdaychairs - the Grassmarket #Edinburgh #thistimelastyear"
X Link 2023-09-21T07:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#PostboxSaturday Spotted this little cutie in Knaresborough yesterday"
X Link 2023-09-23T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#postboxSaturday An old French post box in the gardens of the Horniman Museum SE London origins unknow but now used for collecting donations"
X Link 2023-09-23T09:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#staircaseSaturday #Saturdaystaircase retweet"
X Link 2023-09-23T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@chrisbu03352910 Morning Chris - hope you are enjoying Utrecht - loving your photos π"
X Link 2023-09-24T07:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#signsonsunday #mural - this one takes the biscuit π"
X Link 2023-09-24T07:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge The holy dove she will be caught again Bought and sold and bought again The dove is never free Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack a crack in everything That's how the light gets in Leonard Cohen"
X Link 2023-09-24T09:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#telephoneboxTuesday A listed but unloved K2 in Forest Hill SE London. Behind is the Capitol Cinema designed 1928/9 by J Stanley Beard just as 'talkies' were introduced. The style is 'Art Deco Egyptian' which was popular following Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb"
X Link 2023-09-26T07:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#windowsWednesday #Wednesdaywindows #weathervaneWednesday - bandstand in the gardens of @HornimanMuseum. Beautifully restored by architects Walters & Cohen in [----] it enjoys great views over London & is available to hire including for weddings #shelterappreciationsociety"
X Link 2023-09-27T05:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#windowsWednesday #wednesdaywindows Beautiful convex and concave glass at the former Simpsons Piccadilly (now Waterstones) by Joseph Emberton comp [----]. The concave glass truly does give the illusion of no glass"
X Link 2023-09-27T07:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Not often I get to spot something for #signalboxSaturday so heres a wee gem recently seen in Broughty Ferry"
X Link 2023-09-30T09:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#365in2023sundaychallenge Layering different sounds on top of each other Little fluffy clouds and er little fluffy clouds and er Little fluffy clouds and er little fluffy clouds and er What were the skies like when you were young They went on forever The Orb"
X Link 2023-10-01T06:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"An old view of Edinburgh in celebration of #worldpostcardday - intrigued by the cryptic message & the fact that it wasnt written or posted in Edinburgh (1906)"
X Link 2023-10-01T08:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@xobreex3 #rockinTuesday - Tarbat Ness in North-East Scotland is where the Great Glen Fault which created Loch Ness disappears into the North Sea"
X Link 2023-10-03T06:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"First #thicktrunkTuesday of #October - trees still quite green but [--] Tuesdays this month so plenty of chances to see the colours develop"
X Link 2023-10-03T07:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#thatchThursday - Leamach Cottage on the battlefield at Culloden; occupied until [----] it was gifted to @N_T_S with the battlefield in [----] and before the current visitor centre was built it functioned as a wee museum"
X Link 2023-10-05T07:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#365in2023SundayChallenge Red light green light Speedin thru the dark night Drivin thru the pounding rain I gotta see Jane Freeway byway Tearin up the highway Runnin up a world insane Just gotta see Jane R Dean Taylor"
X Link 2023-10-08T10:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#tilesonTuesday part [--] - these tiles adorn the entrance to the former Station Hotel Nairn. Thos Minton made china in Stoke from 1790s but the tile dept dates from [----] when Michael D Hollins became a patner. The building itslf dates from [----] when the town was a thriving resort"
X Link 2023-10-10T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#tidesoutTuesday - evening cloud at West Beach Lossiemouth. A mesmeric place to watch the waves"
X Link 2023-10-10T08:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#tombTuesday - bronze age cairn at Balnuaran of Clava one of a group of three each of which is surrounded by a stone circle"
X Link 2023-10-10T10:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SlingsbyElaine Moody skies : )"
X Link 2023-10-10T20:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#transportationThursday -these old boats in the harbour at Annan not transporting much these days"
X Link 2023-10-12T06:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Is it time to resurrect #cathedralthursday This is beautiful Carlisle Cathedral which was visited for the first time on our recent road trip (might need a wee tap) @fen_ken"
X Link 2023-10-12T14:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#AllMetalMonday looking back towards Dundee from Broughty Ferry Harbour"
X Link 2023-10-16T06:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#telephoneboxTuesday - the unique concrete phone kiosk in Pittencreiff Park Dunfermline. It was designed in [----] by the architect John Fraser who also did the town's Alhambra Cinema along with the Co-op Ice Rink & several schemes of council housing"
X Link 2023-10-17T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This lovely photo captures just how 'highland' the landscape feels up on Arthur's Seat. This hill is the highest along the route of Edinburgh the Walk and fittingly it is th last one climbed"
X Link 2023-10-19T07:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#fingerpostfriday #ferrousFriday - thinking of historic Brechin today as the heavy rain is falling on already saturated ground. This taken [--] weeks ago in the last storm. Lamp occupies site of former Mercat Cross where the "Old Pretender" was proclaimed King James VIII in 1715"
X Link 2023-10-20T05:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#pharosFriday #ferrousFriday - calmer days in north-east Scotland one of the harbour lights at Nairn a couple of weeks ago"
X Link 2023-10-20T06:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SaturdayCinema - this little community-run cinema sits in a rugged location by the shore at #Cromarty in north-east Scotland - there is even an annual Film Festival here @cromartyfilms"
X Link 2023-10-21T06:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#standingstoneSunday pt [--] St Demhan's Cross aka St Devenoc's Cross or the #CreichStone. A Scheduled Monument noted to be an Early Medieval cross slab dating from [---] AD to [----] AD. Nearly [--] ft tall it stands alone & has a rounded side (shown) and a flat one carved with a cross"
X Link 2023-10-22T05:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#standingstoneSunday pt [--] St Demhan's Cross aka St Devenoc's Cross or the #CreichStone. The flat side of the stone with the now faint carving of an early Christian cross thought to mark the grave of St Demhan (also rememberd in ruined church nearby) but stone may be bronze age"
X Link 2023-10-22T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#allmetalMonday - a cast-iron drinking fountain at Portmahomack - a No [--] from George Smith & Co.s Sun Foundry Glasgow. It was erected to celebrate the arrival of a piped water supply to the village in [----]. Inscribed in Gaelic 'Uisce Tobar Na Baistiad' (a water well of baptism)"
X Link 2023-10-23T06:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#stormhour #thephotohour - after Storm Babet we were treated to this calm sunshine & autumn colour on early Sunday [--] October [--] at Kew Gardens @StormHour @ThePhotoHour"
X Link 2023-10-23T09:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls A lovely semi-circular gable on this barrel-vaulted commercial ice house in #Cromarty. Pre refridgeration the ice was needed to preserve the fish landed by the local boats for onward transport & it was probably brought from Norway in huge blocks"
X Link 2023-10-25T06:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#woodensday On this day last year was passing through Penn Station Newark New Jersey. Designed by McKim Mead & White it was constructed in 1935/7 and still retains many beautiful orriginal features including these inlaid benches in the main concourse"
X Link 2023-10-25T09:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#FungiFriday - from a walk round the coast at #Cromarty earlier this month. i only recognise the puffball"
X Link 2023-10-27T08:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#sundialSunday - (needs a tap) unusual scaphe/scaife sundials set in the base of a new mercat cross created for Inverness in [----] by the late sculptor Gerald Laing. This type of sundial is said to date back to Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos in 3rd C BC"
X Link 2023-10-29T06:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#365in2023SundayChallenge I love you for your pink Cadillac Crushed velvet seats Riding in the back Cruising down the street Waving to the girls Feeling out of sight Spending all my money On a Saturday night Pink Cadillac Bruce Springsteen"
X Link 2023-10-29T08:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Cyndiloowhen I know nothing about cars so can't actually tell if it is a cadillac but it looks like what I imagine a cadillac looks like π"
X Link 2023-10-29T09:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge All we need is music sweet music There'll be music everywhere There'll be swingin' and swayin' and records playing Dancing in the street Oh it doesn't matter what you wear Just as long as you are there Marvin Gaye Ivy Hunter William Stevenson"
X Link 2023-10-29T13:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#standingstoneSunday part of the ring of stones surrounding the (north-east) chambered cairn at Balnuaran of Clava near Inverness"
X Link 2023-10-29T14:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@postcard13 What a fabulous photo π€©Like so many others I had a Saturday job (plus [--] nights after school) at Lows - it was in the days of the yellow uniform with the brown trim"
X Link 2023-10-30T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge (#Halloween bonus) I'm gonna tell you all the things my heart's been a-dyin' to be sayin' Just like a ghost you've been a-hauntin' my dreams But now I know You're not what you seem Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little boy like you Spooky ah Dusty"
X Link 2023-10-31T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@MrWhoCapture #architecture St Bartholomew's Church Smithfield London"
X Link 2023-11-01T10:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#WetWednesday Waterfall manmade weir and wooden lade taking the water's power to the mill. Ulvik Norway"
X Link 2023-11-01T11:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DailyPicTheme2 #DailyPictureTheme #Favourite from October - sunset in Lossiemouth"
X Link 2023-11-01T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#pubfrontFriday pt [--]. This inn is shown with the name Blue Bell on maps from [----] & may be named for the song 'Bluebells of Scotland'. This song was writen c [----] by a actress named Dora Jordan and it was such a popular hit that the composer Joseph Haydn set it to music"
X Link 2023-11-03T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#museumMonday - pt1 Tarbat Discovery Centre Portmahomack is a museum dedicated to the story of & the finds from an archaeological excavation of the [----] which unearthed a major Pictish monastic settlement here active 6/8th centuries AD & later. The building itself is the"
X Link 2023-11-06T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#museumMonday - pt2 Tarbat Discovery Centre Portmahomack is house in the former West Church built c [----] - both the church and the buril ground stand on the site of the former Pictish settlement"
X Link 2023-11-06T07:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#tidesoutTuesday - where the Cockle Burn meets the Firth of Forth; Cramond Island in the distance"
X Link 2023-11-14T06:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#TilesOnTuesday The gII listed York & Albany PH is a Regency building the first construction of John Nash's Park Village East London. The lovely glazed tile frontage was added in the 1920s. As a combination it shouldn't work but it does"
X Link 2023-11-14T11:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#woodensday - frieze above the door of Liberty London; as befits a building in the Arts & Crafts style it depicts craftsmen at work"
X Link 2023-11-15T10:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#shopfrontFriday - the Gt Marlborough Street frontage of Liberty London. This is quite a late example of Arts and Crafts style being built in 1920s"
X Link 2023-11-17T11:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"More #treeclub than #thicktrunkTuesday a sugar maple snapped in Washington last year - feel there hasn't been much red evident in local trees this autumn"
X Link 2023-11-21T10:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#ferrousFriday Decorative Art Nouveau grilles which are part of the ventillation at Mornington Crescent Tube Station London. Opned in [----] the station was designed by architect Leslie Green & is grade II listed"
X Link 2023-11-24T07:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#fountainFriday One of [--] fountains installed in the Avenue Gardens at Regents Park London when this section of the park was restored to the 1860's design of Wm A Nesfield (also worked on Kew Gdn). The fountains were made from artificial stone using designs from old catalogues"
X Link 2023-11-24T08:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#CeilingsonSunday - yup another station This utterly splendid ceiling is Union Station Washingto USA"
X Link 2023-11-26T09:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#365in2023Sundaychallenge My Maserati does one-eighty-five I lost my license now I don't drive I have a limo ride in the back I lock the doors in case I'm attacked I'm makin' records my fans they can't wait They write me letters tell me I'm great Jo Walsh"
X Link 2023-11-26T13:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#Wednesdaywindows Glass dating from a London pub rebuild of [----] showing Wm Younger - this Scottish brewer began in [----] in Edinburgh & from [----] developed the massive Abbey Brewery. The company identity was lost in a merger with McEwan's in [----] prompted by the Great Depression"
X Link 2023-11-29T09:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#staircaseSaturday - the ancient stone stairs up to the tower of York Minster"
X Link 2023-12-02T06:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#spireSaturday - spires on one of the towers of the west front of York Minster as seen from the top of the main tower"
X Link 2023-12-02T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Such beautiful ripples in the sand π€©"
X Link 2023-12-05T20:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"What fabulous patterns the rocks make on this beach Jeni π€©"
X Link 2023-12-05T20:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#retailhistory Burton's 1930s store is in a more conservative neo-classical style than their usual which was deemed more suitable for this historic city. Unusually it has [--] foundations stones - one laid by each of his sons Stanley Raymond & Arnold @LaidByMonty"
X Link 2023-12-06T07:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#wallsonWednesday #Wednesdaywalls St Leonard's Pl just outside the medieval walls of York. Comp [----] (btwn Regency and Victorian; never know how to classify this decade) to designs of John Harper. The terrace displays at attempt at elegant planning as seen at Bath or Edinburgh"
X Link 2023-12-06T09:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#Thursgate This magnificent gate on display at the National Railway Museum in York was created in [----] & fitted to Philip Hardwick's giant doric arch at Euston Station. Must have created quite an impression on those early users of the London & Birmingham Railway. Arch demol 1961"
X Link 2023-12-07T07:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#cinemaSaturday -Regent Street Cinema where in [----] there was a performance of the first moving picture to be shown in the country. It was made by the Lumire Brothers; presumably it was the film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory which they previewed in Paris in 1895"
X Link 2023-12-09T07:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheSneakyLens Amsterdam"
X Link 2023-12-11T21:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DailyPicTheme2 #DailyPictureTheme #cityview Amsterdam at night from the Adam Tower"
X Link 2023-12-12T08:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#thicktrunkTuesday - signs of festivities approaching"
X Link 2023-12-12T09:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Like an abstract painting in the sand π€©"
X Link 2023-12-12T20:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Beautiful black sand & definately the furthest TidesoutTuesday location ever Has to look it up & in the process discovered it is the Antipode of Len Spain so doubt we will see anything from furher away π€©"
X Link 2023-12-12T20:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Cornish coast sure has it all - the sand the cliffs the light π€©"
X Link 2023-12-12T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Always excited to find something for #fridayurinal This beautiful brick structure dates from [----] & was designed by Deventer City arch Uytenhout & remained in use in that city for [--] years; now to be found at the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem (inside is just a mannequin)"
X Link 2023-12-15T08:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#postboxSaturday - one of the old postboxes saved at the Netherlands Open Air Museum"
X Link 2023-12-16T09:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@RichardMortime2 Ahem π"
X Link 2023-12-17T00:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#Sundayyellow slips into #blueMonday as you wait for the tram at this stop at the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem. #ShelterAppreciationSociety"
X Link 2023-12-17T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#museumMonday The Open Air Museum Arnhem a national museum focusing on the culture associated with the everyday lives of ordinary people in the Netherlands. A lovely place to wander on a winter's afternoon (& optional opportunities for Christmas shopping if desired). Think"
X Link 2023-12-18T06:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#thatchThursday - the collection of old farmhouses at the Netherlands Open Air Museum are so beautiful but their interiors - one large room shared by the farming family and their livestock - are a reminder of how hard rural life was well into the 20th century"
X Link 2023-12-21T06:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#transportationThursday - even Santa loves a London bus"
X Link 2023-12-21T15:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#ferrousFriday festive tram rails Amsterdam"
X Link 2023-12-22T06:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#365in2023SundayChallenge And you said it was like Christmas But you were wrong It wasn't like Christmas at all. By the time we got to Oslo The snow was gone And we got lost The beds were small But we felt so young. It was just like Christmas Low Just Like Christmas"
X Link 2023-12-24T05:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#ceilingsonSunday - the white & gold painted plaster ceiling of the [---] year old St Mary le Strand London. The architect James Gibbs had recently returned from Rome & his treatment of the ceiling is beleived to be influenced by the work of Luigi Fontana in that city"
X Link 2023-12-24T06:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#woodensday wooden die in a decades old board game dug out from the depths of the cupboard and played (ruthlessly) by the family this Christmas"
X Link 2023-12-27T06:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@sue_robertson7 Haha - correct on both counts Sue π"
X Link 2023-12-27T07:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@sue_robertson7 Well in the sense that I think it is our new family favourite π"
X Link 2023-12-27T07:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#friezeFriday thought it might be a good time to visit the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles at the British musuem to try and understand why they evoke such strong feelings on both sides of the argument #pano"
X Link 2023-12-29T07:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@martgathercole Ill get there one day Martin π"
X Link 2023-12-29T08:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@PeterLewis55 Not sure Peter - think I may now have to go and see the Athens site (as @martgathercole suggests) to weigh up the other side of the argument But I did enjoy seeing them - they are an amazing artwork"
X Link 2023-12-29T08:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PeterLewis55 @martgathercole Must look them up"
X Link 2023-12-29T08:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Fabulous Ian π€© Did you get a round of golf in atKilspindie while you were there #TidesOutTuesday at Kilspindie on the west side of Aberlady Bay being enjoyed by [--] Shelducks & revealing one of the [--] late 19th/early 20th c fishing-boat wrecks that are designated a maritime scheduled ancient monument. #EastLothian https://t.co/u0jt4rj1fm #TidesOutTuesday at Kilspindie on the west side of Aberlady Bay being enjoyed by [--] Shelducks & revealing one of the [--] late 19th/early 20th c fishing-boat wrecks that are designated a maritime scheduled ancient monument. #EastLothian https://t.co/u0jt4rj1fm"
X Link 2024-01-02T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BooksTeaFilms Lovely shot - is the library back to normal after its cyber attack"
X Link 2024-01-03T08:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#Gallery365SundayMusic Listen to the wind blow watch the sun rise Running in the shadows damn your love damn your lies And if you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (never break the chain) Fleetwood Mac"
X Link 2024-01-07T08:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#MilestoneMonday an 18th C milestone in Highgate Villge inscribed 'IV miles from Saint Giles Pound'; this was a cattle pound at St Giles Circus (roughly corner of Tottenham Ct Rd Oxford St & St Giles High St) which was the point from which distances from London were measured"
X Link 2024-01-08T08:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#blueMonday #Mondayblue - glittery geegwas at Camden Market complimenting the winter sky"
X Link 2024-01-08T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@MikeHBates So beautiful Mike - I can see why it is a favourite. Am ashamed to say I have never visited"
X Link 2024-01-13T08:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#Gallery365SundayMusic Purple haze all in my brain Lately things they don't seem the same Actin' funny but I don't know why Excuse me while I kiss the sky Purple haze all around Don't know if I'm comin' up or down Am I happy or in misery Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix"
X Link 2024-01-14T06:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#manholecoverMonday - they come in many varieties in Las Palmas - watch this space"
X Link 2024-01-15T07:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@perryralph Hi Perry - this one is from Kinsarvik in Norway"
X Link 2024-01-16T10:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TimMcGr9868 @Suhlabs Very nice π€©"
X Link 2024-01-17T17:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"#forestFriday - the pine forests on Gran Canaria are remarkable in that they grow on the thin soils of the volcano & up to an altitude of [----] ft where the tree's long needles are said to 'comb the water out of clouds' allowing it to thrive on this dry island"
X Link 2024-01-19T08:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#AlphabetChallenge #WeekD - D is for diaphanous dress design"
X Link 2024-01-23T00:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#Saturdaystaircase #staircaseSaturday"
X Link 2024-01-27T08:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#PostboxSaturday Crying out for a coat of paint"
X Link 2024-01-27T11:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@martgathercole @EssexBirdNews @EWTFingringhoe @ESBR_Essex @SwallowBirding @stuttonsparrows Looks like you had a lovely day. Top right photo is like a painting π Oh and very nice fence too"
X Link 2024-01-28T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#Mondayblue or #tilesonTuesday There has been a lot of artistic input into the decoration of London tube stations over the years; the horse design for Blackhorse Road was by Hans Unger in [----] for the then new Victoria Line"
X Link 2024-01-29T08:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#tilesonTuesday - this beautiful shopfront c1916 is evidence of the centuries old provisioning of London with milk from Welsh farms. This shop was a short cart ride from Paddington Station were milk was brought by train starting in the 1840s; first in churns & from c1930 waggons"
X Link 2024-01-30T07:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
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