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Art, modern stained glass, music, football. Milton Keynes. he/him.
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New town autumn morning #MiltonKeynes
Sunny morning, trees and shadows against a backdrop of a brutalist road bridge
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Highlights from yesterday's Simple Things festival in Bristol, L->R Factory Floor, Decius, The Sick Man Of Europe and The Zawose Queens #SimpleThings
Nik of Factory Floor Decius The mighty Sick Man Of Europe The Zawose Queens soak up the applause
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Hawker's Hut, cut into the cliffs beyond the church at Morwenstow, Cornwall, by Rev Robert Hawker
National Trust sign at the top of the path The hut door View from the hut southwards
October 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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St Morwenna & St John the Baptist's church, Morwenstow, Cornwall
View back towards the church and Robert Hawker's rectory Replica figurehead of the shipwrecked Caledonia, whose crew except one survivor are all buried in the churchyard Windswept churchyard Porch and view towards the clifftops
October 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Gwennap Pit, near Redruth - reputedly John Wesley's favourite place to preach and a centre of Methodism #JohnWesley #Methodism #GwennapPit #Cornwall
Rings cut into grass to provide seating for the congregation, sloping downwards to a central circle in which the preacher stands
October 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Christ of the Trades and St Christopher wall paintings at St Breaca's church, Breage, Cornwall
Christ of the Trades wall painting Wall painting depicting St Christopher carrying the Christ child across the river. Note mermaid looking at herself in the mirror at the bottom.
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Three paintings from the exhibition Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance #LamornaBirch #NewlynSchool #Penzance #Cornwall
The Vale of Trevider, 1899 The Lamorna Stream, c.1930 Lamorna Woods aka Through Copse Clad Valley, 1903
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Depicting Christ of the Trades and George killing the dragon, two wall paintings at St Just's church in the village of St Just, Penwith, Cornwall #StJust #Cornwall #WallPaintings
Christ of the Trades functions as a warning against work on the Sabbath
October 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Ernest Procter's panels depicting Celtic saints, on the pulpit at St Hilary's church in the village of St Hilary, near Penzance, Cornwall #ErnestProcter #NewlynSchool #Cornwall
St Neot preaching to crows who are raiding his villagers’ corn St Kevin, in whose hands birds built their nests while he prayed St Mawes, who used a ram to carry his breviary (book of prayers, hymns, psalms & readings)
October 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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The window, which dates to 1917 and was produced by Lowndes & Drury, commemorates the life of Lt William Torquill Macleod Bolitho. It was restored in 2018, "to confirm our commitment to tolerance and peace."
2018 plaque
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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St Pol de Leon's also features an Arts & Crafts east window by the artist and designer Robert Anning Bell. #ArtsAndCrafts #RobertAnningBell #StainedGlass
East window Detail of fourth panel Detail of central panel Detail of second panel
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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St Pol de Leon's church, in the village of Paul, up the hill from Mousehole in Cornwall. The wall of the churchyard features a memorial to Dolly Pentreath, one of the last native speakers of Cornish, who lived in Mousehole and died in 1777 #StPolDeLeon #Paul #Mousehole #DollyPentreath #Cornish
Dolly Pentreath memorial in the foreground, church tower in the background
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Factory Floor at the Village Underground in Shoreditch #FactoryFloor #VillageUnderground
Lights illuminating the audience and populating the space with lines, angles and shadows. The band are not visible Large single light over the stage; the audience are in darkness, two members of the band are visible on stage
October 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Banana leaf
Dead leaf from a banana plant, naturally curled into the shape of a letter P, pictured against a textured background.
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Dom Charles Norris' early 60s dalle-de-verre stained glass at the Church of Our Lady, Lillington, Leamington Spa #DomCharlesNorris #StainedGlass #Warwickshire
Interior including west-facing rose window Interior Interior including Steven Sykes' east-facing mosaic Baptistery
September 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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I am a sucker for photographs of artists in their studios and the gallery includes several
August 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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At yesterday's ApTap festival in Banbury, Oxford's mighty Means Of Production performing their new LP Joy - funky, political, darkly hilarious
August 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Enormous pop fun courtesy of Canadian legends Men Without Hats at the Craufurd Arms, Wolverton, Milton Keynes yesterday #MiltonKeynes #MenWithoutHats
Expectant fans in identical t-shirts, the wording being a reference to the opening line of the smash hit single The Safety Dance. Audience participation The full band Full band including Sahara with a keytar.
August 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Gravestone marked Peter The Wild Boy 1785 at St Mary's, Northchurch (Berkhamsted, Herts). Story is here; mentions of Berkshire are erroneous. www.outdooraddictsdiaries.com/blog/peter-t...
August 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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By tradition associated with the annual firing of the Fenny Poppers (a set of six small cannons) to commemorate the grandfather of the church's founder, St Martin's church @ Fenny Stratford, Milton Keynes #StMartin #MiltonKeynes
Interior Church banner depicting Martin of Tours' sword and cloak Depicting the legend of St Martin of Tours (in which Martin on horseback cut his own cloak to share it with a beggar), a frieze on the 1960s church hall
August 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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John Hayward's east window at All Saints, Nettleham, Lincolnshire #JohnHayward #StainedGlass #Lincolnshire
Looking easy beyond the altar Hayward's Christ in Majesty window dates to 1971 and came about as the result of a fire in the church two years previously. It nods to local circumstances by depicting an RAF plane from above, farm machinery and crop burning, as well as the flames of the fire itself.
August 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Mrs EM Everett's window, St Michael, Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire #EMEverett #StainedGlass #Nottinghamshire #ArtsAndCrafts
August 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Christopher Whall's window, St Oswald, Ashbourne, Derbyshire #ChristopherWhall #StainedGlass #Derbyshire #ArtsAndCrafts
August 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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John Hayward's three clerestory windows, All Saints, South Wingfield, Derbyshire #JohnHayward #StainedGlass #Derbyshire
Christ in Majesty Nativity Christ and the Raising of Jairus' Daughter
August 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Tring Corinthians 0-2 Stony Stratford Town - the Stony boys start the season with a win #LocalFootball
The teams take to the pitch, touchline trees in the background
August 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM