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Christopher Howse

@BeardyHowse

Writer for the Telegraph. Author of Soho in the Eighties and The Train in Spain.

Joined October 2013
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Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74
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An 18th-century shop window in the facade of the 17th-century house that later served as the Post Office in Dorchester on Thames until it closed in 2013.
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I see a lot of people’s addresses through work, and I sort of collect the funnier ones, and in this vein I’ve seen “Ultra Close” but my favourite recent one was “Overcliff Drive”
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Dr Antonia Lynn@AntoniaJLynnNov 7
Yes! I did that today.
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There is something strangely comforting about sitting in a room as it grows dark outside, just letting the light fade naturally.
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Don't they mean "Closer"? Street sign, Purley.
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Keeping it under your hat: the use of cipher in a family letter
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Cipher work traces in early modern letters: A mother to her daughter. One ciphered passage gives discreet advice for a fashionable linen headdress to conceal her daughter’s hair loss. vanishedcomforts.org/2026/04…
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Cipher work traces in early modern letters

Mary Mildmay Fane, Countess of Westmorland, wrote letters to her daughter Grace Fane, Countess of Home, discussing her health and hopes of pregnancy.1 Grace lived in Scotland at Dunglass Castle. As…

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C B Newham@cbnewhamNov 6
I have finally seen a memorial plaque I contributed to (the model of the seal) at Great Bardfield, Essex.
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Stout pollarded limes guard the house called the Priory in the High Street, Dorchester on Thames. Its 18th-century facade hides an earlier timber-framed core visible in the gables to the rear. Listed Grade II.
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Are Salopians baptised in straw?
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Much battered Norman Tub in the beautiful Heath Chapel, Shropshire #fontsonfriday
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I get a passing mention (under Lincolnshire, unsurprisingly) in this fine piece by Chris Moss msn.com/en-gb/news/other/i-v…
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Girl reading by candlelight while leaning on a table Guido Reni, undated (b. 4 Nov 1575 - d. 18 Aug 1642 Bologna) Albertina, Vienna
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Toothsome.
Cantabria Románica (@CantRomanica) profile pictureCantabria Románica@CantRomanicaNov 5
Uno de los cuatro enormes capiteles cilíndricos de los arcos torales de la Colegiata de San Martín de Elines. El león andrófago, el nacimiento a nueva vida. Una constante en la escultura de la Colegiata. Flipante. #cantabria #arte #historia #románico #medieval
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Gothic exuberance in miniature: St Birinus, Dorchester on Thames, 1849, designed by William Wilkinson Wardell.
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The scorpions rejoicing to be ashore.
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After the flood, leaving the Ark BnF MS NAL 2334; Pentateuch, known as the Ashburnham or Tours Pentateuch; late 6th or early 7th c; for the additions: mid-8th c); Spain, North Africa, Northern Italy, or Rome (?); France for the additions; f.10v @GallicaBnF
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The font at North Grimston, Yorkshire East Riding It features the Last Supper and the only example of the Descent from the Cross on an English font. A highlight from last week's new entries in the Parish Churches app parishchurches.org/parishchu…
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"A Martyr to Excessive Sensibility" – poor Sarah Fletcher died 1799 aged 28. Memorialised at Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire.
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Happy Families.
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Game board with 20 squares representing different episodes of the decline of a married couple, from wedding to penury, each marked with for a different throw of the dice. 1691, Giuseppe Maria Mitelli The question is, who would actually play this game? (British Museum)
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November 2, 1874. Indianapolis News.
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Behind the organ loft in the Brompton Oratory lies the peaceful altar of St John Henry Newman, designed in 2010 by Russell Taylor, with its inscription: "Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem".
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We are delighted to announce that "Hoarded Gold: A Book of Old English Wisdom" by Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) is now published and available worldwide! To read more about the book, visit: uppsalabooks.com/hoarded-gol…
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Ian Dickens@readtheskyNov 3
Another one in the bank and another school hall full of delightful youngsters this afternoon. Reckon I’ve now given 75 talks to more than 3,250 young people on CD’s life. Many keen to now enter our annual ‘Power of the Pen’ 500 words short story competition. Flipping lovely xx
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