Michael Hall
@humberlevels.bsky.social
Theatre Lighting professional. Interested in the arts, growing, cooking and eating vegetarian food. Public transport user, serious about infra structure past and present. A Green, Leftie ,Yorkshireman , still proudly European.
Where is it from?
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Where is it from?
Exactly the period I was in Glasgow!
January 31, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Exactly the period I was in Glasgow!
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Always had a fascination with this line and the other short Yorkshire lines. Some where I have one of the last Metro Train timetables for the branch.
January 31, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Always had a fascination with this line and the other short Yorkshire lines. Some where I have one of the last Metro Train timetables for the branch.
Haven’t been since COVID.
Le Petit Grain, 19 Rue de la Charité, lyon, Delightful Vietnamese with a French twist.
Top of the Grande-Côte used to be chocolate heaven!
Le Petit Grain, 19 Rue de la Charité, lyon, Delightful Vietnamese with a French twist.
Top of the Grande-Côte used to be chocolate heaven!
January 28, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Haven’t been since COVID.
Le Petit Grain, 19 Rue de la Charité, lyon, Delightful Vietnamese with a French twist.
Top of the Grande-Côte used to be chocolate heaven!
Le Petit Grain, 19 Rue de la Charité, lyon, Delightful Vietnamese with a French twist.
Top of the Grande-Côte used to be chocolate heaven!
#PhotoFriday is this rather ‘sweet’ image of a young man on the lookout at a confectionary stall in the south avenue of the Market Hall. Ref - WK/B11/1206 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic
January 23, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Amazing work about the Dunston Staiths and those who worked on them. @rwldproject.bsky.social @coaltrimmers.bsky.social
🛠️ Most people today encounter Dunston Staiths as a quiet heritage site. In the 1970s, it was a dangerous place of work.
A new film by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Peter Roberts brings that history back into view → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/coal-staiths-of-the-river-tyne
Commissioned by Tyne Derwent Way
A new film by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Peter Roberts brings that history back into view → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/coal-staiths-of-the-river-tyne
Commissioned by Tyne Derwent Way
January 23, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Amazing work about the Dunston Staiths and those who worked on them. @rwldproject.bsky.social @coaltrimmers.bsky.social
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Credit @sophiep25397.bsky.social on Twitter
Farage lied when he said he was too ill to appear for the BBC interview on Sunday.
The Heartland Institute, whose party he attended instead, doesn't believe in tobacco harms, climate change and seeks the dismantling of the NHS.
Be warned. If you care
Farage lied when he said he was too ill to appear for the BBC interview on Sunday.
The Heartland Institute, whose party he attended instead, doesn't believe in tobacco harms, climate change and seeks the dismantling of the NHS.
Be warned. If you care
January 22, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Credit @sophiep25397.bsky.social on Twitter
Farage lied when he said he was too ill to appear for the BBC interview on Sunday.
The Heartland Institute, whose party he attended instead, doesn't believe in tobacco harms, climate change and seeks the dismantling of the NHS.
Be warned. If you care
Farage lied when he said he was too ill to appear for the BBC interview on Sunday.
The Heartland Institute, whose party he attended instead, doesn't believe in tobacco harms, climate change and seeks the dismantling of the NHS.
Be warned. If you care
January 22, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Wildlife photography of a raven 🐦⬛ in a snowstorm ❄️
📹Isaac Spotts/isaacspicz
📹Isaac Spotts/isaacspicz
January 22, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Out-take from "Doctor Who: The Awakening" part 2 (1984).
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
January 21, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Such a tragedy. Compare with the achievements in Paris at the Notre Dame.
January 21, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Such a tragedy. Compare with the achievements in Paris at the Notre Dame.
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:45 PM
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
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Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
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Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
January 12, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
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Socks Appeal with special dispensation to the late Walter Lure who liked flashy socks.
January 11, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Socks Appeal with special dispensation to the late Walter Lure who liked flashy socks.
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They’ve just changed their registered address btw. 😂
Well done. ✅
Well done. ✅
January 8, 2026 at 1:15 AM
They’ve just changed their registered address btw. 😂
Well done. ✅
Well done. ✅
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Paper clip collection, annotated with date of invention.
Via @sedgarchivist.bsky.social & Denver Archives.
Via @sedgarchivist.bsky.social & Denver Archives.
January 8, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Paper clip collection, annotated with date of invention.
Via @sedgarchivist.bsky.social & Denver Archives.
Via @sedgarchivist.bsky.social & Denver Archives.
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The Truth about Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The Truth about Venezuela.
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Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
January 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
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1930s suburban houses in Middlesex tickle your interest? An album of adverts from the c.1936 County Handbook showing the spread of Metroland & beyond #architecture #housing #1930s #suburbs @c20society.bsky.social @timenw.bsky.social
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1930s suburban Middlesex homes
Adverts from the c.1936 Middlesex County Handbook showing builders, developers and estate agents.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:55 PM
1930s suburban houses in Middlesex tickle your interest? An album of adverts from the c.1936 County Handbook showing the spread of Metroland & beyond #architecture #housing #1930s #suburbs @c20society.bsky.social @timenw.bsky.social
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCFpAh
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCFpAh
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Manchester Ship Canal, a 36-mile waterway linking the city to the Mersey estuary, opened for traffic on this day 1894. Eventually Manchester became Britain’s third busiest port. (Punch cartoon ridiculing the idea)
January 1, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Manchester Ship Canal, a 36-mile waterway linking the city to the Mersey estuary, opened for traffic on this day 1894. Eventually Manchester became Britain’s third busiest port. (Punch cartoon ridiculing the idea)
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do you remember or know of socialist historian Eric Hobsbawm? Christmas University Challenge teams on 29th December didn't
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University Challenge Christmas 2025. Alumni Teams had never heard of Eric Hobsbawm
The University Challenge Christmas series, consisting of teams of Alumni, on Monday 29th December featured St Hilda’s Oxford and Edinburgh Amol Rajan asked who the joint author (with Terence …
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December 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
do you remember or know of socialist historian Eric Hobsbawm? Christmas University Challenge teams on 29th December didn't
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