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Julia Abel Smith
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Author of 'Forbidden Wife', biography of Lady Augusta Murray (1761-1830), previous Duchess of Sussex.

Paintings & sculpture; Georgian buildings; hatchments & monuments; Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge & Scotland.
Beautiful headstone Lida Cardozo Kindersley designed for my brother in Lavenham Cemetery
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Yes. Loved Daisies are our silver, Buttercups our gold.
We were allowed to choose the hymn when it was our birthday - exciting times!
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Songs of Praise with a blue cover 💙
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Look and Learn
Treasure

Happy Days
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Also gone is the sugar beet factory at Felsted, where they planted roses all along the fence on the road to Little Dunmow.
September 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I visited yesterday and the exhibition is marvellous - showing just how much preparation Munnings did for this project - hours spent sketching (Lady Munnings modelled for Queen Mary) site visiting and mulling things over.
Bravo for managing to borrow the huge oil from The Tate.
August 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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There were so many shelves with a variety of fashion accessories in this museum. My eye was quickly drawn to what looks like to me the iconic early #19thc pineapple reticule! (cc: @julieinstitches.bsky.social @nemgarrett.bsky.social) #RegencyFashion #dresshistory
August 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
On #InternationalCatDay my favourite cat-themed artwork is Philip Wilson Steer's utterly delightful 'Hydrangeas' featuring a woman playing with a black cat with a white bib, from #TheFitzwilliamMuseum, Cambridge.
August 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
James Gibbs and Rysbrack 🤞
July 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🕥 Grounds open 5.45pm
Performance starts 7.30pm

Bring your own food or pre-order via the Tea Room ☕️ @tearoom_munnings_art_museum
✉️ tearoom@munningsmuseum.org.uk
June 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
What would the oval baskets have held? Sweetmeats, nuts?
A beautiful piece of silver work.
June 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Yes! With the parish church tower peeping out behind. I cannot remember whether the tower was embellished by Adam or Keene but the astonishing Gothick Shelburne family pew is now in the school hall at Wycombe Abbey.
June 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
And opposite is Robert Adam’s delightful Little Market Hall of 1761, usefully engraved ‘London 29 miles’ and ‘Oxford 23 miles’ on the string-course.
June 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Intriguingly, he was also the grandfather of Kitty O’Shea (née Katharine Wood), 13th child of Sir John Page Wood of Rivenhall Place, Essex.
June 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM