Serena Cockayne Jones
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We love a secret doorway.
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We love a secret doorway.
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
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Album. Walter Dorwin Teague c. 1930.
Image: Cooper Hewitt.
Image: Cooper Hewitt.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Album. Walter Dorwin Teague c. 1930.
Image: Cooper Hewitt.
Image: Cooper Hewitt.
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The 'Bantam' pedestal box - more properly the 'Type N' - was the last of the type lettered pillar boxes. Introduced in 1999, it featured an updated collection system. Welsh language versions were also produced - the first time this had been seen on a postbox #postboxsaturday
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The 'Bantam' pedestal box - more properly the 'Type N' - was the last of the type lettered pillar boxes. Introduced in 1999, it featured an updated collection system. Welsh language versions were also produced - the first time this had been seen on a postbox #postboxsaturday
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Give a wooden pole a hug type of post box. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Give a wooden pole a hug type of post box. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
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A nice Victorian wall box on the northbound platform at Yatton railway station.
#postboxsaturday
#postboxsaturday
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
A nice Victorian wall box on the northbound platform at Yatton railway station.
#postboxsaturday
#postboxsaturday
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Also a big thank you to all the postbox poppets who take postbox pictures for their friends to share on #PostboxSaturday. Here’s one from Poppit Sands, Wales. (Thanks everso, Julie) 🥰📮🏴❤️
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Also a big thank you to all the postbox poppets who take postbox pictures for their friends to share on #PostboxSaturday. Here’s one from Poppit Sands, Wales. (Thanks everso, Julie) 🥰📮🏴❤️
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Mural on the back of a flower shop in Portland, Oregon #Photography #StreetArt #Mural #Bloomscrolling📷🐸🌹
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Mural on the back of a flower shop in Portland, Oregon #Photography #StreetArt #Mural #Bloomscrolling📷🐸🌹
A detail of books or perhaps legal paperwork, from an 1854 picture at the National Gallery of Scotland, entitled ‘Bailie Macwheeble at Breakfast’ by James Eckford Lauder. Macwheeble was a lawyer in Walter Scott’s Waverley.
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Don’t forget, if you want to sign up for our Secret Santa you’ve only got until Sunday evening to do it! - Michael
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Don’t forget, if you want to sign up for our Secret Santa you’ve only got until Sunday evening to do it! - Michael
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The Teddy Bear Shop, 13 Stonegate, York. A 15th century core, 17th century extension, 18th/19th century changes including a fine Regency Period shop front. And teddy bears.
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Teddy Bear Shop, 13 Stonegate, York. A 15th century core, 17th century extension, 18th/19th century changes including a fine Regency Period shop front. And teddy bears.
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare
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"The exhibition, Noel Carrington - Nothing Need be Ugly, at The Higgins Bedford, marks the 85th anniversary of the publication of the first Puffin Picture books in December 1940."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Book exhibition hails Bedford's 'unsung hero' of publishing
Publisher Noel Carrington is credited with creating some of Britain's best-loved children's books.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"The exhibition, Noel Carrington - Nothing Need be Ugly, at The Higgins Bedford, marks the 85th anniversary of the publication of the first Puffin Picture books in December 1940."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nicasius Florer, bookbinder Nicasius died #otd 28 Nov 1617
(Amb. 279.2° Folio 85 verso (Landauer I): Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg | Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
(Amb. 279.2° Folio 85 verso (Landauer I): Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg | Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Nicasius Florer, bookbinder Nicasius died #otd 28 Nov 1617
(Amb. 279.2° Folio 85 verso (Landauer I): Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg | Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
(Amb. 279.2° Folio 85 verso (Landauer I): Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg | Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
A superb blog here on Jack Clemo @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social
“The conkers from Vallombrosa Woods, shown in the bottom shelf of the exhibition, were stored in a heart-shaped box as a gift to Clemo’s wife.”
I’ve often kept and given conkers as gifts too. I wonder if this is a common practice?
“The conkers from Vallombrosa Woods, shown in the bottom shelf of the exhibition, were stored in a heart-shaped box as a gift to Clemo’s wife.”
I’ve often kept and given conkers as gifts too. I wonder if this is a common practice?
Student volunteer, Ted, has written a fantastic new blog post to accompany his exhibition on the Cornish poet & writer, Jack Clemo: 'Exhibition of a Rebel'.
Read it here! ➡️ specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/26/j...
This exhibition is free for all to visit on Level -1 of the Forum Library.
Read it here! ➡️ specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/26/j...
This exhibition is free for all to visit on Level -1 of the Forum Library.
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Busy river, quiet street (Ursulines), New Orleans
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Busy river, quiet street (Ursulines), New Orleans
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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Jason Adam Katzenstein
New Yorker, December 1, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🏈
New Yorker, December 1, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🏈
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Jason Adam Katzenstein
New Yorker, December 1, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🏈
New Yorker, December 1, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🏈
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Obituary: actor Jack Shepherd from Leeds. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Jack Shepherd obituary
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Obituary: actor Jack Shepherd from Leeds. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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"Composition". Piet Mondrian. 1916.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Composition". Piet Mondrian. 1916.
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NEWS: A bold new vision for the upgrading of Liverpool Street Station by John McAslan + Partners has been unveiled today. Backed by heritage campaigners, it promises to deliver crucial accessibility upgrades without large scale demolition of the listed station.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/a-new-v...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/a-new-v...
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
NEWS: A bold new vision for the upgrading of Liverpool Street Station by John McAslan + Partners has been unveiled today. Backed by heritage campaigners, it promises to deliver crucial accessibility upgrades without large scale demolition of the listed station.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/a-new-v...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/a-new-v...
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
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Scottish artist Anne Redpath, Still Life of Flowers and a Teapot, c.1955 #womensart
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Scottish artist Anne Redpath, Still Life of Flowers and a Teapot, c.1955 #womensart
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We are proud to announce that Little Free Library has been named a Gold Winner in Education, Art, & Culture in The Anthem Awards for our project Celebrating 200,000 Little Free Libraries with Gift of Reading for Title I Schools! lflib.org/2025-gold-...
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We are proud to announce that Little Free Library has been named a Gold Winner in Education, Art, & Culture in The Anthem Awards for our project Celebrating 200,000 Little Free Libraries with Gift of Reading for Title I Schools! lflib.org/2025-gold-...