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Forthcoming exhibition and public lecture @KeeleUniversity : all are cordially invited but a special call out to @PaulWilliams207 and @MarshallColman. Please circulate widely! @BBCRadioStoke @NewsNBC
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This is a Street Scar. Theyβre common across many British high streets & side streets, particularly visible when the street surface is stone or setts as here. They exist due to an error in legislation which has frozen the maximum fine on utility firms who donβt do their jobβ¦.
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Curious omission in The Guardianβs updated Bayeux Tapestry - no mention of contemporary people crossing the Channel by boat from northern France.
In Trento they call her The Flit Lady. Flit, the DDT fly spray, is now as distant a memory as the fascist era that The Flit Lady commemorates.
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APARTMENT BLOCK, 1936
Hill Crescent, Coldblow, Bexley, UK π¬π§
Architect: C.D. Dixon for H.L. Jeanes
A beautifully preserved example of 1930s suburban modernism, this residence combines the clean geometry of Art Deco with the aerodynamic elegance of Streamline Moderne.
The accounting year began on the quarter day, 21 March. When the calendar was changed it moved to 5 April. Hence the new tax year begins on 5 April.
When I worked in local government we had to reconcile our finances with EU grants, which ran from 1 January.
I asked an EU official if they could pay our grants from 5 April to make our reconcilations easier.
His reply: "Typical Briton: you do things differently from everyone else but you expect us to fall in line with you."
#OTD 1752 Having adopted the Gregorian calendar the previous year, Great Britain skipped 11 days to align the calendar with the rest of Europe, hence the following day was 14 Sep.
Urban myth has it that widespread rioting took place as 11 days were 'stolen' from peoples' lives.
William Morris and Walter Crane were close colleagues and had similar artistic and political ideas, but they differed in one respect: their appearance.
I won't say 'the care they took of their appearance' because I suspect that Morris's uncombed hair and rough clothes were as calculated as Crane's dandyism.
The photo of Morris, taken in the 1880s when he was in his fifties, is fairly representative of him.
He wears everyday clothes and no necktie, despite the fact that this is a studio portrait. And was this one of the blue workman's jackets he was famous for?
In several pictures he wears a soft tweed suit and he always wears a soft attached shirt collar, which was unusual before the 20th century.
He contrasts with Crane, with his carefully trimmed beard and waxed moustaches. Crane wore colourful clothes and he seemed to pay more attention to his appearance the older he got.
He liked titles and after he had been honoured by the King of Italy with the award of Commendatore, called himself 'Commendatore Crane' in England.
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My Aunt was an artist. Art school in the 40βs. When she died I got a lot of her work. Our house is like a gallery of her paintings. Going to start putting some pictures on here. This one is huge, like 3x5 feet.
