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#Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the longest cathedral in the world. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's great slab of local sandstone dominates the skyline above the Mersey.
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Down the tubes, back to 2001? #London
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A magnificent crack willow, found in boggy corner whilst hunting for glacial ponds in @herefordshirewt.bsky.social‬ Sturts reserve.

Name is not a drug reference (though willows are valued for their pain-relieving properties), but for its habit of splitting and developing deep cracks.
September 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The demolition of Scotland Yard’s former HQ affords new views of 55 Broadway, Charles Holden’s Grade I art deco wedding cake, with bas reliefs by Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill.

Apparently, one of Epstein’s figures had a key part chiselled down a bit after a public outcry. Beats a flashy sports car…
July 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Too much #heat? 'A Week at the Knees'by Alex Chinneck, Charterhouse Sq, London.

Floppy appearance with a steel core, apparently from the old US Embassy (what might they do one day with the current one?)

The arch invites you in closer but sadly it was gated off when we visited. #accessibleart
July 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Space House. No better name for this 'mid-twentieth century icon'. Grade II listed off, rising to the West of Kingsway, #London.

Centrepoint's little sister, this 1968 #brutalist masterpiece is a machine for working in. Half expect to see worker bees swarming in and out its concrete cells...
June 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM