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Turville Street, London E2

Glazed brick wall and window frames

#reference #buildingreference #materialreference
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December 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Much catchier than "Moustachioed Beefeaters". (Postcard from my collection, 1910s)
Sepia photograph of seven Yeoman Warders (aka Beefeaters) standing, or in one case sitting, in a passage under a building somewhere in the Tower of London in the 1910s, printed as the front of a postcard. All are wearing a uniform with the GVR insignia of King George the 5th with several medals attached, and all have a moustache.
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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If you know someone who loves history and heritage, then please follow the link below to purchase a gift membership for the Friends of Friendless Churches.

friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/news/gift-me...
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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emmanuelspv.bsky.social
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Archive work story of the year
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light
Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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threadinburgh.scot
Look what we have here then.
1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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We need an Egyptian Revival Revival
handhyorkshire.bsky.social History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · Aug 16
Park are ten listed buildings including catacombs, an Anglican Chapel, with the Gatehouse, Nonconformist Chapel and the Egyptian Gateway below. There is the largest single grave plot in the country – a common grave in which 85 bodies were interred. Image Gregory Deryckère
August 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Hydrant cover, Church Rd, Highgate. In grand condition for a 97-year-old thanks to low footfall. Cast at Josiah Stone's, Charlton. I had to look up "BH"; if it's the same as you see on council maps, that means borehole. Nearby Highgate Wood is home to the origin of several of north London's brooks.
Photo of a cast iron fire hydrant cover set into the pavement. It's covered with small diamond shapes in relief to provide grip when being walked on. A rectangle in relief surrounds large relief letters reading "BH FH 1928". Above and below the rectangle is smaller relief lettering reading "J. Stone & Co. Ltd London S.E.".
August 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Whenever I'm in Chicago I always notice their heritage of tiled floors. Great account, recommended follow
August 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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"Why should I pay someone when I can just do it myself?" Moselle Avenue, Wood Green.
The front of a small terraced house, the bricks of which have been painted red until ¾ of the way up (the middle of the upper windows), and the pointing of which painted over in bright white in an extremely wobbly way. Many of the vertical lines of pointing in the upper part are slanted to the left, suggesting someone clinging onto a ladder with their left hand and stretching to paint with their right. Oh dear
July 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The rewards of diligent study, from "The practyse of cyrurgyons of Mountpyller and of other that neuer came there", a 1540 pamphlet decrying quack surgeons.
Scan of a paragraph of text. Reads: And you ſhal haue moche more mony for your labours & paynes then you haue had in tymes past / & better name and fame. And at your endynge the glory of the kyngdome of God for your rewarde, to the whiche I pray God ſende us there to remayne.
July 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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devinfitz.bsky.social
Anyone have opinions about the best approaches to digitizing movable books? Pop ups, flap, etc.
Thinking about these things
July 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Jazz cellars are good cheap entertainment & v. popular.
July 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Super frustrating to be informed that the British Library's digitisation studio "is still not accepting orders, and there is no timescale for when they may resume". How are we supposed to proceed with research intended for publication that needs images?
June 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
In London St Barts is THE ONE for this.
oldenoughtosay.com ❄️mari-lwyd odent❄️ @oldenoughtosay.com · Jun 20
okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there
June 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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LAST CHANGE TO SAVE LIVERPOOL ST STATION FROM THE MONSTER BLOCK! Note the height of Grade II*-listed Great Eastern Hotel in front and observe that this pile is more than twice the height and it will block out all daylight from the concourse. shorturl.at/sByFe
June 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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A lovely pub, happily long moved on from its days as "The Sheepwalk" with a strange yellow coat of paint and an atmosphere inside that made you feel like you might get stabbed if you glanced at the wrong person!
londonremembers.com London Remembers @londonremembers.com · Jun 12
Old steps at the entrance to the rear of an old pub, now The Byrds. Aylmer Rd E11. The stones have been worn away by the tread of patrons over the years.
June 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I have uploaded the Songbook of Zaghere van Male to archive dot org:

archive.org/details/zegh...

This large songbook from 1542 is celebrated as much for its bizarre illuminated capitals as for its record of late medieval music.
Songbook of Zeghere van Male : unknown scribe : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This large songbook from 1542 is celebrated as much for its bizarre illuminated capitals as for its record of late medieval music.It was created for Zeghere...
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June 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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An interesting look at teething issues in the Barbican in 1972 and comparing it to the facilities of the adjacent Golden Lane Council estate, designed 20 years earlier
youtu.be/vvXpvH99tic
1972: Living in the BARBICAN | Nationwide | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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June 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Making weekend plans? Friday is National Drive-In Movie Day. These are from the John Margolies Roadside America photo archive, held at the Library.

Over the span of ~40 years, Margolies took 11,000+ photos of structures along America's roadways. 👇
www.loc.gov/free-to-use/...
Star-Lite Drive-In Theater sign, Route 85, Minot, North Dakota. 1977. Sign features a mural of a cowboy on a rearing horse, holding his hat up in the air. They are on a cliffside overlooking an ocean, with ships in the distance. Star-Lite Drive-In Theater sign, Route 85, Minot, North Dakota. 1987. Bright red sign reads "Starlite Outdoor Theatre" with illustrations of a moon and stars around the text. Don Drive-in Theater, Routes 65, 90 and 287, Port Arthur, Texas. 1979. Building is pink and along with the name of the drive-in (Don Drive In Theatre) written in white, a white outline of Texas is featured. Airline Drive-In, Houston, Texas. 1977. Blue text on a bright yellow building reads "Airline Drive In Theatre." A design below the words features the outlines of red, orange and blue squares intersecting each other in a diagonal line.
June 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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An investigation into a style of period lettering seen on buildings all over this country:
precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/04/22/t...
That mysterious font is Festive, not Stymie
What is that font? You know, THAT font? The chunky italic lettering you see on launderettes and council blocks, on post-war churches and new town butcher’s shops, across the UK. The font you’re thi…
precastreinforced.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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This looks absolutely delightful!
owenexiehurcum.bsky.social Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social · Jun 1
So I just found out (yeserday) a board game got published earlier this year about 18th century London Molly Houses in which you work co-operatively to host queer parties and help the community thrive... (whilst also maybe informing on the community a little to save yourself). I bought it on the spot
Picture of a pink board game box with black line sketches of queer Georgians and the title in white text which reads "Molly House" Picture of the board game box back which shows an image of a game in progress with lots of flavour text
June 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The Lost Alleys Of Cloth Fair. The house photographed in 1951 is the oldest residential building in the City of London. More on Cloth Fair in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...
May 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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I'm a big fan of doughty workaday iron set into our pavements, especially when it makes reference to some extinct entity which placed it. This fire hydrant cover in Archway has boldly announced itself and the short-lived Hornsey Urban District Council (1894–1903) for the last 128 years.
A rectangular (portrait format) cast iron cover set into the pavement, decorated with raised alternating vertical and horizontal dashes for grip when being walked upon, and bearing the legend "HUDC FH 1897"
May 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM