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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 3h

A new Geoffrey Fletcher book has been added to our collection – ‘London’s River’ from 1966. Here's a bit on the pubs of Greenwich.

The Trafalgar, sketched loosely in black and white – a big pub with balconies facing out over the Thames.

“Before 1954 [The Cutty Sark] was named The Union. It is a free house and dates from about 1805, occupying the site of an ancient beer house known as The Green Man. The bar is old-fashioned, wooden-panelled and inviting, and if you want to enjoy a whitebait supper (a Greenwich tradition), the bow-windowed dining-room upstairs provides this in a plain, honest style, and draught Guinness, too... If your mood is for something grand, The Trafalgar is your tavern. Its recent restoration, after years of neglect, cost a fortune, and besides being a business proposition, was an act of piety for The Trafalgar is one of the great historic taverns of the nineteenth century and architecturally one of the most important in London.

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Londonist @londonist.com · 2h

We've coloured in another John Rocque map panel from 1746. For the first time ever, see Georgian Westminster and Lambeth mapped in colour. londonist.substack.com/p/1746-in-co...

1746 in Colour: Westminster and Lambeth

Colouring in a map of Georgian London.

londonist.substack.com

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 10h

No new GP surgeries either. I was told the existing ones would absorb the extra patients. They can't cope as it is. :-(

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn leaves in the park.

Photo shows red autumn leaves on a tree in the park

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 2d

This, according to Google lens. 😊

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 3d

Your regular reminder that 31% of children in the UK are living in poverty. Rising to 43% in single parent families. Those are the families that can least afford to lose a week of work to COVID.

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Understanding Humanism @humanismedu.bsky.social · 4d

A little treat for the weekend! Our wonderful animation with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on the humanist approach to making the most of the one life we have. understandinghumanism.org.uk/res_films/on...

One Life, Live It Well: watch our new animation narrated by Alice Roberts

'Life is like a piece of string. It has a beginning and an end. We don't get much say about that. But we can make choices about the bit in between. We have the freedom to shape our own lives.'

understandinghumanism.org.uk

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 4d

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 4d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Absolutely right Labour should be better than this

Dismay and anger over Labour’s visa plans | Letters

Letters: Florence Graham, who works in the NHS, on why she fears she will lose her job and her home

www.theguardian.com

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 7d

Well done to you for flagging this up. It's a nightmare.

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 8d

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 8d

That's a beautiful photo, Emma. Such lovely autumnal colours.

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 8d

They're springing up along Charing Cross Rd and Tottenham Court Rd!

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Mark Annand @markannand.bsky.social · 9d

Bill Colley, 22/09/2025.

heartheboatsing.com/2025/09/25/b...

Bill Colley: The Last of a Breed

Bill Colley, 1937 – 2025, pictured at work in Richmond in 2016. 25 September 2025 By Tim Koch William “Bill” Colley, the last British builder of wooden “tortured ply” racing boats…

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 9d

Lewis Hine captured photographs for the National Child Labour Committee from 1908 to 1924 of young workers and the conditions under which they worked.
They had names.

Sam.
Rosy.
Ronald and Frank.
Maud and Grace.
Dovey and Ertle.

From 6 to 11 years old, working from 3:00 A.M. to 5 P.M. daily.

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 10d

This looks interesting!!

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Annette B @annetteeb.bsky.social · 10d

@senatehouselib.bsky.social . Just registered for my husbands talk on #30October when he’s giving the #HoldenLecture. On #ephemeralprint. looking at the early iteration of the @royalmailofficial.bsky.social @thepostalmuseum.bsky.social @garius.bsky.social info www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Holden Lecture: Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print and Restoration England

www.london.ac.uk

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 11d

How to tell if it is Autumn:

- butter is hard & tears the bread
- duvet tog transition
- sleeves are back
- everything is golden
- books accumulate
- snacks are stored under the sofa & bed
- nose tip is always cold
- blanket in each room
- squirrels have changed your WiFi password
- dark

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 10d

Better safe than sorry. The Royal Parks have a number of old, mature trees. Plus in central London, it's very gusty.

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 11d

Ooh, loved our Pollocks Toy Theatre when we were young. We even had stage lights!

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 13d

Israel is beginning their illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Live streamed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 13d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 13d

Who's cat??

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vickyannand.bsky.social @vickyannand.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely flat lay, Emma.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 14d

I'll never forget the older lady who yelled at my young children (4 & 9) when they paused on our daily walk to climb a tree (we had no access to outdoor space at home). "That's not exercise!" My kids were very upset. I was furious. She was sitting on a park bench
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Covid exercise messaging left children stuck indoors, UK inquiry hears

Children not allowed out partly because their exercise – playing – looked too much ‘like fun’, says campaigner

www.theguardian.com

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