Ruth Brown
@baliscoe.bsky.social
Retired museum curator; wide interests- civic history; arms and armour; castles; Scotland; Yorkshire; Armourer and Brasier of London. But my bread and butter is historic cannon. Used to be Basiliscoe...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
perhaps...https://www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent-calendar-police-museum-theft/71347.html....
I thought that was the peculiar black slab by the slice of toast.
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I thought that was the peculiar black slab by the slice of toast.
And the man who ordered Roaring Meg to be cast for the seige at Goodrich Castle.
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
And the man who ordered Roaring Meg to be cast for the seige at Goodrich Castle.
Took us an hour to get through at Bologna a couple of weeks ago.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Took us an hour to get through at Bologna a couple of weeks ago.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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It's a wonderful portrait. I have happy memories of the exhibitions the Portrait gallery in Edinburgh used to put on for the Festival in the 1970s and 1980s.
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's a wonderful portrait. I have happy memories of the exhibitions the Portrait gallery in Edinburgh used to put on for the Festival in the 1970s and 1980s.
I was rather hoping it might be Lord Lucan.
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I was rather hoping it might be Lord Lucan.