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Nigel Bishop
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Chief Officer @ Working Together Ludlow - charity supporting people with learning difficulties & disabilities. Views my own.
www.droversloft.co.uk
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In the Shire this morning - waters are rising in the meadowlands pool, but the River Onny hasn't broken it's banks yet... #Shropshire
Stormy back and white picture of a pool with reads and trees either side and dark clouds reflected in the water.
December 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Come Forward Into The Light... Stained glass window by the painter and decorative artist Edward Burne-Jones at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows - The 1885 Pre-Raphaelite window shows Birmingham's coat-of-arms #Birmingham #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze
A circular stained glass window showing the coat-of-arms of Birmingham and the word FORWARD. The coat of arms includes a full length male and female artisans leaning on a heraldic shield and with a man's arm holding a hammer - symbolising industry.
December 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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TAIL LIGHT! A steam train tail light lamp (EOTD) through a rainy carriage window on the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, Porthmadog for #WeekWForWindows #AlphabetChallenge #Cymru #Trains #EastCoastKin
A bright red light blurred by the rain drops of a steam train carriage window
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Ted's in the rain... Ted's Chip Shop and Takeaway, Barmouth, for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows - #EastCoastKin #photography #Cymru
Ted's Chip Shop with the illuminated sign of Ted's and the window lights reflecting oranges and reds in the rain on the road outside.
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Hello buoys! A workshop window, Tenby Harbour, for #WeekWForWindows #AlphabetChallenge - #Cymru
Floats and buoys pushed up against an old, white, wooden framed window
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Spooky windows! Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows At Carew Castle an inner doorway displays the coats of arms of Henry VII (the first Tudor King), his son Arthur and Arthur's wife Catherine of Aragon... #Cymru #History #EastCoastKin #Lumix #GX8
The ruined walls of Carew Castle with many tall window frames from a long range of domestic rooms. Some birds fly overhead.
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Windows in the Shire! Harp Lane Deli for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows Taken at this weekend's Ludlow Winter Festival. A food emporium selling tasty homemade food, savouries, organic sourdough and other deli fare. Great coffee too... #Advent #EastCoastKin #Ludlow #Shropshire #Lumix #GX8
A nighttime picture of a red, white and green Piaggio three wheel scooter van outside the Harp Land Deli shop. The shop windows are illuminated and decorated ready for Christmas and red tables are set out ready for cafe visitors.
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Back to the Future! A 1977/78 Series III SWB Land Rover taking part in the Ludlow Charity Tractor Run last night...
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #GreenSat #photography #classiccars #LandRover #Ludloe #Shropshire
A green Series III SWB Land Rover decked with fairy lights zooms past in the Ludlow Charity Tractor Run parade
November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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EVACUATION for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels Full house @sheena-mck.bsky.social! The Evacuated Children Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire. ‘Every Which Way’ sculpture by Maurice Blik remembering children evacuated during WWII ##ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
A bronze sculpture at the National Memorial Arboretum of a group of children, holding hands and in the process of being evacuated. A girl and a boy figure are carrying a teddybear, suitcases and gasmask.
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Toy car in a Vintage Store window... Possibly a model of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO #WindowsOnWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed #EastCoastKin #Ferrari and, maybe, just enough vowels for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVowels
The side door of red toy car in a Vintage Shop Window showing the Ferrari badge and the No 28 on the door
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A is for... AB 201 - a fishing boat sits high and dry on the Afon Mawddach for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels and #TidesOutTuesday Taken in Barmouth, January 2023 #Cymru #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #Boats
Fishing trawler AB201 sits high and dry on its keel as the tide is out on the Afon Mawddach Estuary, Barmouth
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A is for An Stór... this weeks #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels - An Stór mountain on the Trotternish peninsula, Isle of Skye #Scotland #MountainMonday #EastCoastKin
A tree stump on the side of An Stòr mountain with stormy skies in the background
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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'Blending bin'... 🫣 - Grit Salt bin near Stokesay Castle #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#CravenArms #Stokesay #Shropshire
A yellow Grit Salt bin overgrown by verge-side plants
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Old farm machinery for #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUforUnloved Abandoned farm machinery - old wagon leaf springs emerge from the dried out mud of pool near Stokesay Castle, Craven Arms... #EastCoastkin #Farm #Shropshire
The leaf springs from an old farm machine emerge from the dried our mud of a large pool
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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In the Shire... the River Onny at Craven Arms this morning #stormclaudia #Shropshire
Flooded fields with trees and telegraph poles emerging from brown flood water
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Starsky & Hutch... For #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision A Ford Gran Torino leaving Ludlow Castle during the Ludlow Spring Festival classic car parade #Shropshire #ClassicCar #Ludlow #Castle
A red Ford Gran Torino - Starsky and Hutch lookalike car - leaving Ludlow Castle through the castle's main gate
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Magic Roundabout... This week's #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision is 'Carters Steam Fair' - Morris Minor 1000 van at Shrewsbury Steam Rally #Shropshire #ClassicCar
A panned image of a red and yellow Morris Minor 1000 van advertising CARTERS STEAM FAIR and with a waltzer horse on the roof
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Remembrance Day... A copper bowl (displayed in St Laurence's Church) made by a resident of St. Dunstan's - now Blind Veterans UK. Church Stretton was their main training and rehabilitation centre for blind service personal during the Second World War... #Shropshire #Remembrance #helios-44
Sunlight reflects of a copper bowl - similar to reflections off water
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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On Remembrance Sunday - 'A SOLDIER OF THE 1939-1945 WAR'. Ranville War Cemetery contains 2,236 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 90 of them unidentified. Ranville is located 10 km north east of Caen and only a few kms from the D-Day beaches in Normandy. #Remembrance #wewillrememberthem
A white marble headstone stands in the Ranville War Cemetery with green grass in the foreground and blue sky in the background. The inscription reads 'A SOLDIER OF THE 1939-1945 WAR' with a cross underneath.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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'Old Bill' - the War Memorial in Craven Arms that is now located in the churchyard of St John the Baptist Church, Stokesay. 'Old Bill' is named after a Bruce Bairnsfather mural that he pained on the wall in the bar of the Stokesay Inn... #Remembrance #Shropshire #LestWeForget
Old Bill, the War Memorial in Carven Arms - showing the carved face of stone statue depicting a First World War soldier with a moustache and tin helmet
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Pompeii - shadows of the tourists, the shadows of the past, the shadow of Mount Vesuvius... Another pic for this weeks #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows - #pompeii #ruins #architecture #history #Italy #EastCoastKin
A black and white picture of ruined columns at the site of Pompeii - seen between the shadows of tourists and with hills in the background
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Shadows... literal and metaphorical! Today's #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows is Hut 8, Bletchley Park. The secret home of World War II Enigma codebreakers of the Government Code & Cypher School (GC&CS) & a hut used by computer scientist Alan Turing #bletchleypark #enigma #history #eastcoastkin
The side of a green, wooden, World War II military hut at Bletchley Park with long shadows being cast across its side and window. These is a large 'HUT 8' sign by the door too.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Shadows... Amalfi Cathedral for this week's #AlphabetChallenge #weekSforShadows The interlacing Moorish arches of the Cattedrale di Sant'Andrea - St Andrew's Cathedral - from the Cloister of Paradise #photography
#Black&White #chiarroscuro #EastCoastKin #architecture
A black and white image of the interlacing Moorish arches viewed from from the Cloister of Paradise with tall palm trees casting shadows on the building.
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Dolgarrog Dam Disaster - a poignant entry for this week's #AlphabetChallenge on #WeekRForRock OTD, 2 Nov 1925, 16 people, including six children, lost their lives when the Llyn Eigiau Dam failed - sending millions of gallons of water and huge boulders down onto the village of Dolgarrog #cymru
Four black and white images from the Dolgarog Dam Disaster Memorial Garden, including a community Council Notice and three images of the huge boulders that were washed down the hillside onto the village - now overgrown with trees and ferns
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Interlocking metal circles 'reminiscent of gasometers and jewelry making' on the side of the Birmingham Library building... #UrbanGaze #ArtChallenge #Photography #EastCoastKin #MicroFourThirds #M43 #Lumix #Architecture #Birmingham
Like two triangles in bright sunlight - an oblique view of the 'interlocking metal circles reminiscent of gasometers and jewelry making' cladding on the side of Birmingham Library building
October 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM