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Heather Tulip

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Living in Cornwall. Avid reader - would spend my last £ on a book! Music is my first love, especially disco 🪩 Love walking & exploring NT properties & old churches 🙂 Work for the NT, all views expressed are my own

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Also #PostboxSaturday
Private postbox near Porthtowan, Cornwall

14.03.2026 06:17 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I had to look this up as I had no idea to what you were referrring to!

13.03.2026 21:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Old cathedral/new font
Salisbury
Also #FontsOnFriday

13.03.2026 08:38 👍 395 🔁 41 💬 10 📌 1

The railway bridge is stunning 😍

12.03.2026 07:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The 3 bridges of Berwick-upon-Tweed!
Berwick Bridge, or Old Bridge, built in 1624, the Royal Tweed Bridge, carrying modern traffic & built in 1928, & the Royal Border Bridge, a Grade 1 listed railway bridge from 1850 🙂

12.03.2026 07:00 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Little & Large!
Photo taken at the Lost Gardens of Heligan

11.03.2026 05:54 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks! I think I’m going to struggle with this topic though - a lot of head scratching going on 😂

09.03.2026 11:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The ruins of the 12thC Winchester Palace in Southwark

09.03.2026 07:45 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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One of my favourite NT interiors at Wallington Hall, with its wonderful paintings showing 2000 years of Northumbrian history 🙂

08.03.2026 07:23 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Also #StainedGlassSunday
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The fabulous Salisbury Cathedral 😍

08.03.2026 07:19 👍 169 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
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Built in 1959 & restored & relaunched in 1980 by the National Trust, the beautiful Steam Yacht Gondola offers tours of Coniston Water ❤️

07.03.2026 07:38 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The impressive Belsay Hall, Northumberland.

06.03.2026 05:50 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Royal Magdalene Almshouses, Glastonbury

05.03.2026 05:44 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Part of the interior of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, showing the location of an old priest hole 🙂
Also #WallsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday

04.03.2026 06:59 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Showing the interior of Beatrix Potter’s dolls’ house, which contains items she used to illustrate the Tale of Two Bad Mice ❤️ On display at Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Lake District.

03.03.2026 06:20 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside the Hermitage at Warkworth, Northumberland ❤️

02.03.2026 06:33 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hydrangeas
All taken at Trelissick, Cornwall

01.03.2026 07:01 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Plate
Christmas Spode at Trelissick/ Vintage coach number plate

01.03.2026 06:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Point!
Mausoleum of Jack Fuller, Brightling, East Sussex/ Garras, Cornwall

28.02.2026 07:14 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Huer’s Hut, Newquay, once used as a lookout spot for the ‘huer’ who watched for signs of shoals of pilchards.

28.02.2026 07:12 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Border
Flower border at Coleton Fishacre, Devon/ The River Tamar, natural border between Devon & Cornwall.

27.02.2026 07:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Holy Well at St Clether, Cornwall.

27.02.2026 07:12 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trunk
At the foot of the bed at Montacute, Somerset/ near Glastonbury

26.02.2026 06:56 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Herd of cows!
Taken at Trelissick last summer, seems a long time ago!

26.02.2026 06:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lock
Salisbury cathedral/ Rye, East Sussex

25.02.2026 06:01 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ham House, Richmond-upon-Thames
Also #WallsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday

25.02.2026 05:58 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Harlyn Bay, Cornwall
Also #TidesOutTuesday

24.02.2026 06:46 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Light
As light as a feather in this Rembrandt self portrait/ Ceiling light at Killerton, Devon

24.02.2026 06:44 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ooh good to hear this, I’m going to a talk he’s giving tomorrow evening on a friend’s recommendation, but haven’t yet read any of his books 🙂

23.02.2026 08:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Font
Penzance Library & Frome parish church

23.02.2026 06:44 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0