@BeardyHowse

Writer for the Telegraph. Author of Soho in the Eighties and The Train in Spain.

Joined October 2013
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Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74
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Swap: Town Hall, Arundel, given by 12th Duke of Norfolk in exchange for north part of the High Street taken into the Castle grounds. Built in knapped flint with galleting, 1833-36 to design of Robert Abraham. Listed Grade II.
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Brian Groom@GroomB22 Oct 2022
Grangetown, Middlesbrough, 1970s, by Robin Dale.
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Stephen Luxton@StephenLuxtonOct 20
Bit of sheeping this morning with the wife @kelper60, got them quite well trained now 😉 #sheep #chartresfarm #falklandislands #shearing
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Remarkable to see the old paint – and a blessing that it hasn't been done over with best vinyl gloss.
C B Newham@cbnewhamOct 21
Effigy of Elizabeth de Montfort, Baroness Montagu (d.1354), Oxford Cathedral. She was the mother of eleven, including the 1st Earl of Salisbury. She endowed St Frideswide’s Priory with the land now known as Christ Church Meadow. Much of the original paint remains on the effigy.
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Gothic octagonal tower before 1823 at the end of old Vicarage, now divided into houses, designed by Arundel estate architect, on the ridge where the town is built. Listed Grade II.
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Derek Turner
@DerekTurner1964Oct 9
It would be pleasant to get some wildly enthusiastic emails from publishers and filmmakers which are NOT AI-generated phishing...
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The outsize name board in early 19th-century slab-serif or "Egyptian" lettering distinguishes the coaching inn built in Arundel High Street by the Duke of Norfolk in 1785. The room above the arch could hold 150 at dinner. Listed Grade II*.
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Ennius@red_loebOct 18
18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist who is here depicted in the initial 'Q'(uoniam) of his gospel. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 004; The Dover Bible, Volume II.; 12th century; f.193v @ParkerLibCCCC @CorpusCambridge
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Richard Morris@ahistoryinartOct 18
In the wake of the far-reaching loss of WW1, pictures which had an emphasis on continuity and nostalgia had enormous appeal in Britain during the inter-war years. The clarity of definition in James Walker Tucker's 'An Idle Chat,' (1936) is down to his use of egg tempera.
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Derek Turner
@DerekTurner1964Oct 18
Donington-on-Bain church. The most interesting feature is a brass tablet from 1638 to the "learned prudent" rector Thomas Kent, which calls him "Both Chrysosthomer and Polycarpe in one"
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Simon Knott
@TheSimonKnottOct 15
2/2 Here's the whole church, by Darbyshire & Smith, 1900 with an adjacent hall and rooms, 1904 and substantial rectory. Salford's Barracks Estate may not be the most salubrious in the world, but you'd like to think this splendid building had a future.
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St John, Hanley, Staffordshire, on the old High Street. Disused but listed Grade II*. Use as a mosque prevented by pre-existing legal covenant. Cast iron castellations and gallery inside supported on slender cast-iron columns. Now hemmed in by blank shopping-centre walls.
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"In a gentle way you can shake the world," says the decaying hoarding of the office block still To Let after 10 years in the old High Street, now called Town Road, in Hanley, Staffordshire. A meshing fence protects pedestrians from falling debris. A defibrillator stands ready.
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C B Newham@cbnewhamOct 17
Visitors' book Old books in churches are rare. This one, from 1891, is at Yaxley, Suffolk and is still in use. Edward Cobb's 1st visit was with his wife, Emma Frances. He was born in Yaxley & was 35. Thomas Wells, a hat and cap manufacturer, was 49. J. Farrow says he's a postman
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Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹@Mar_MusaOct 15
Okra is just an absurdly beautiful plant, even if it weren't delicious to eat I imagine we'd grow it for its blooms and foliage alone
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LiterateIndy@LiterateIndyOct 15
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was wandering the streets of Indianapolis on this day in 1894. He climbed to the top of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, gave a lecture on literary life, and had dinner with James Whitcomb Riley.
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Thames Path@TheThamesPathOct 15
‘I’ve never been fond of the Bridge of Sighs. I prefer the walkways over Shad Thames’. - Christopher Howse in The Tablet this week. Shad Thames nr Tower Bridge is on TP. @The_Tablet @BeardyHowse
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Wheels (Sean)
@wheeler244Oct 14
Early this afternoon, I spotted thousands of snow geese and waited patiently for them to take flight. Then one lifted off—and suddenly, thousands followed. It was surreal, like living in a National Geographic moment. #wawx #pnw #nature
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Takia Lenskapov@lenskapovOct 14
Telephone Exchange, Walsgrave on Sowe #Coventry Built 1951 #WindowsOnWednesday
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The doorstep becomes less polished.
Helen Day@LBFlyawayhomeOct 14
Old Ladybird Books updated. The shopping list, 1964 and 1972 Artists: John Berry Martin Aitchison
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