One of the Bubb and Sons Victoria Foundry postboxes in Manly. #PostboxSaturday

Old team timetable featuring a silhouette of the Boadicea statue against Big Ben a haunting green sky.

I don’t understand the world. We could still have timetables that look like this.
LCC Trams May 1932.
#BoudicaFriday
#Echolands

The image shows Temple Newsam House, a historic country estate located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, This Tudor-Jacobean mansion was built in the early 16th century and is famous as the birthplace of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The estate features a working rare breed farm, which is considered the largest in Europe. The surrounding parklands and gardens were famously landscaped by the renowned 18th-century landscape architect Capability Brown. Today, it is managed by Leeds City Council and houses extensive collections of fine and decorative arts Image Tim Green

🧵One of the gems of Leeds is most certainly Temple Newsam and one of its most famous residents was Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley who was born at the house probably around December 1545. His mother was Lady Margaret Douglas, the daughter of Archibald Douglas, sixth Earl of Angus, and Margaret

Ooh, just look at these lovelies 🥰

The remains of the Tudor jetty at Greenwich. #Woodensday

Stile with substantial girth 🤩

Low tide beach at dusk with rippled wet sand in the foreground reflecting blue and gold light. A long wooden pier stretches across the horizon with small lights glowing along its length. Waves break beneath the pier, and a few distant surfers appear as silhouettes near the right side of the frame under a sky that shifts from deep blue to warm yellow.

Sunset at Crystal Pier. Pacific Beach, San Diego, California

#SanDiego #sunset #PacificBeach #CrystalPier

Green crab surrounding green, pink and yellow seaweed

Colours of the ocean #Shetland

Painting by Johannes Wessmark.
‘Resurface’ 2016.
Acrylic and oil on canvas.
Size 98 × 74 cm.

A lane with wooden fence. In the foreground, a large tyre encircles a concrete bollard. In the background, an abandoned shopping trolley with rubbish: Pringles tube and tied up baggy of dog poo (presumably)

Quintessential urban lane aesthetic

Burnley, 1972, photo by Serbian photographer Dragan Novakovic.

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Winter morning. Twin Lakes, Santa Cruz.

The River Westbourne at Sloane Square tube station.

@memorialdevice.bsky.social

Alea Stony Rock, Westlock Terrace, Leeds, photo by Peter Mitchell.

Two from London for #AdoorableThursday

Looking up at outdoor stairs which go up the side of a hill in a park, the mosaic steps are colourful and reflect a whole image of a path by flowers going to a moon, the stains have met silver coloured railings

Mosaic Stairs (San Francisco) by Irish ceramicist Aileen Barr and US mosaic artist Colette Crutcher #WomensArt

Oh do admire this fellow stile fans!

How Leeds Royal Charter was saved from becoming lampshade 1950s owner of unique document had no idea of its significance and nearly turned it into furnishing.

A unique document dating from the 17th Century was rescued from being transformed into a makeshift lampshade, archivists have found. The Royal Charter, which granted political powers to a city, was originally given to Leeds by King Charles I in 1626.

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#MosaicMonday two from Holborn

Snow In North Yorkshire. 1°C at Sutton Bank. Crows 🐦‍⬛

Snow In North Yorkshire. 1°C at Sutton Bank. Crows 🐦‍⬛

Love a bit of Millstone Grit stilin'

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@lakesstiles.bsky.social

Lenticulars over the small hills between Gair Loch and Loch Ewe.

Bring back keepers in Titfers!

Two important things:
1) after tomorrow the sun will not set before 5pm again in the UK…until October
2) if you’re struggling just now *please* be kind to yourself

What a lovely stile 🥰