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Tom Coombe

@CoombeTom

Fighting dust for a living; one granual at a time.

 South West, England
Joined April 2018
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Call me sentimental, but it never ceases to move me that on 6 June 1944 tens of thousands of young men hurled themselves on the Normandy beaches to relieve Europe from fascism.
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Thank you @bel_jacobs @aldal24 @collingwoodnorr We have workshops coming up @NTKillerton during #SustainableFashionWeek in September for anyone inspired to learn to darn or in need of help with repairs
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Look at this lovely little writing shed
Image from Into The Forest Dark (@ElliottBlackwe3)
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1/ Stunning high resolution illustrations by German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) from his 1904 book "Art forms in nature" (Kunstformen der Natur). These drawings of flora and fauna influenced the Art Nouveau movement. It's not hard to see why and how. A THREAD:
Image from ArtNouveauDeco (@NouveauDeco)
Image from ArtNouveauDeco (@NouveauDeco)
Image from ArtNouveauDeco (@NouveauDeco)
Image from ArtNouveauDeco (@NouveauDeco)
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It's been two years of waiting and six months of intensive research led by Endangered Crafts Manager Mary Lewis and funded by @ThePilgrimTrust, but the 2023 edition of the Red List of Endangered Crafts is out! heritagecrafts.org.uk/redlis… @jayblades_ @RoyalMintUK #craftsredlist2023
Image from Heritage Crafts (@heritage_crafts)
Image from Heritage Crafts (@heritage_crafts)
Image from Heritage Crafts (@heritage_crafts)
Image from Heritage Crafts (@heritage_crafts)
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Be inspired by our exhibition #ThirstyForFashion The creative reuse of clothing & textiles was important during the austerity years of World War Two until rationing ended in 1951. Pat McKnight of Exeter made this elegant dressing gown from an army blanket & in the 1940s.
A dressing gown made from an wartime blanket

ALT A dressing gown made from an wartime blanket

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Exciting news: Sir John Soane’s architectural #DrawingOffice – the oldest surviving example of its kind – has been restored and will open to public tours for the first time! ✍️🎉
A panoramic view of Sir John Soane's Drawing Office. Desks run down either side of the space, decorated with architectural models. Photo: Gareth Gardner.

ALT A panoramic view of Sir John Soane's Drawing Office. Desks run down either side of the space, decorated with architectural models. Photo: Gareth Gardner.

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Great to be @SaltramHouseNT today talking all things collections. I particularly loved the map. Every house needs a massive map ...
Image from Tom Coombe (@CoombeTom)
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Have you met the old boy in the corner? John Acland is Killerton’s oldest portrait in a collection that covers over 420 years of family history. Collections & House Officer Rob with his film created for his Understanding British Portraits fellowship: youtu.be/jA8vp2rISHk
Portrait of John Acland from the Killerton collection

ALT Portrait of John Acland from the Killerton collection

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Breaking four minutes for the mile had been an obsession among middle-distance runners for years. #OnThisDay in 1953, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile. bit.ly/2Waq7Y7

The First Sub-Four-Minute Mile

Richard Cavendish describes the race in which Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, on May 6th, 1954.

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Read about Jonathan Rhind Architects’ latest project for the National Trust and the challenges in making sensitive conservation repairs to a Grade I listed chapel built of a rare Lamprophyric Basalt and decorative carved limestone bit.ly/KillertonChapel @NTKillerton
Image from Jonathan Rhind (@JonathanRhind1)
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We found this beautiful arrow only two meters from the melting ice. It is incredibly well preserved - the sinew at the front is intact, the wooden birch shaft is in one piece and there are even three fletches.
Image from Secrets Of The Ice (@brearkeologi)
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First day on the job captured for posterity ...
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Happy #NationalLibrarianDay! Here is the dress uniform of the National Librarian of Madrid
embroidered uniform in a display case

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On my desk is a selection of brick & masonry samples from across the Tower (which are not suitable for our archive) which I usually get people to try and guess the age of... By popular request it is now labelled.
Image from AlfredRJHawkins (@ARJ_Hawkins)
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Tom Coombe retweeted
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Visitors Will. #CollectionsCare #Museums
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Tom Coombe retweeted
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@MOfP@MOfP20213 Apr 2023
Shout out to #CollectionCare colleagues across the UK shouting .. ‘don’t let them have the chocolate eggs until they’re definitely leaving’ And also believers in #signs saying ‘no food or drink’* #Museums #EasterEggHunt *dreamers
Take your chocolate away from our stuff - poster - brown writing on a cream logo for MOFP with an Easter egg bottom left

ALT Take your chocolate away from our stuff - poster - brown writing on a cream logo for MOFP with an Easter egg bottom left

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Ladybird Nature Corner. ‘Sallow and Blackthorn’ #SRBadmin
Image from Helen Day (@LBFlyawayhome)
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@MOfP@MOfP202129 Mar 2023
Just a reminder. If you are visiting the #Museum we are very happy to welcome a range of support animals, but have a bag policy that’s stricter than Ryanair As our security team say ‘we don’t make the rules’* *which is absolutely incorrect
Conditions of entry poster. Under support animals it has a silhouette of any animal you can think of. Under bags it has a bag with a line through it and a 50p piece. No bags larger than a 50p piece

ALT Conditions of entry poster. Under support animals it has a silhouette of any animal you can think of. Under bags it has a bag with a line through it and a 50p piece. No bags larger than a 50p piece

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Today is octidi 8 Germinal in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating the daffodil.
Image from Republican Calendar (@sansculotides)
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