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The little-known St Sidwell, the patron saint of E

The little-known St Sidwell, the patron saint of Exeter. Killed by reapers (hence the scythe). This is a fibreglass sculpture from 1969 by local artist Fred Irving.
#exeter #stsidwell #sculpture #fredirving

Now surrounded by the Notre Dame housing estate in

Now surrounded by the Notre Dame housing estate in Clapham, this is a survival from 1793, the porticoed entrance to an Orangery, formerly part of a miniature landscape estate with a lake belonging to the Thornton family.
The Thorntons were a rich family involved (with their friend William Wilberforce) in the anti-slavery movement centred on Holy Trinity church, Clapham Common.
#clapham #claphamcommon #georgian #georgianarchitecture #orangery #portico #wilberforce #williamwilberforce #thornton #henrythornton

Me and daughter photographing son.

Me and daughter photographing son.

The Art Deco wonderfulness of the old lift doors f

The Art Deco wonderfulness of the old lift doors from Selfridges department store - now to be found in @museumoflondon
#london #visitlondon #selfridges #artdeco #sculpture #museumoflondon

My next virtual tour for www.uktoursonline.com is

My next virtual tour for www.uktoursonline.com is on the Great Fire of 1666 - four days that destroyed 80% of the medieval City of London. (It’s on 2nd September at 7pm)

The spire of St Laurence Pountney church was seen by Pepys on the south bank of the river to catch fire on the Sunday evening. It was one of the churches not to be rebuilt afterwards.
#london #greatfireoflondon #stlaurencepountney #samuelpepys #1666 #blueplaque #cityoflondon

#museumoflondon #theclash #londonscalling #london

#museumoflondon #theclash #londonscalling #london

The City of London on a Tuesday lunchtime, showing

The City of London on a Tuesday lunchtime, showing the scale of the challenge facing retail and hospitality businesses in the centre.

Ordinarily this would have been packed with people from offices going out to get lunch - this is close to tumbleweed territory.
#london #cityoflondon #covid #covid19 #pandemic #lockdown #bankjunction

Five minutes after flying through these they were

Five minutes after flying through these they were dropping bucketloads of rain on Gatwick.
#clouds #gatwick #gatwickairport #easyjet #rain #rainclouds #home #england #wetwelcome

A wooden sculpture of the Virgin Mary by Antonino

A wooden sculpture of the Virgin Mary by Antonino Ferraro from 1599. In the Chiesa Madre in Corleone, Sicily.
#sculpture #sicily #sicilia #ferraro #corleone #virginmary #woodcarving #antoninoferrarotto

Slow Instagram... #sea #waves #meditteranean #cas

Slow Instagram...

#sea #waves #meditteranean #castellammare #sicily #sicilia #italy

Saigon... Shit... I'm still only in Saigon... . #a

Saigon... Shit... I'm still only in Saigon...
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#apocalypsenow #fan

Your very white, slightly portly correspondent plu

Your very white, slightly portly correspondent plunges from so, so high into the (literally) crystal clear water around Favignana.
#mediterranean #favignana #swimming

Sunset at the Saline (salt pans) of Marsala. #win

Sunset at the Saline (salt pans) of Marsala.

#windmill #sicily #sicilia #sunset #trapani #salinemarsala #marsala #saltpans

Zingara nature reserve in northern Sicily. The loc

Zingara nature reserve in northern Sicily. The locals campaigned against an autoroute through here in 1980 and it became Sicily’s first nature reserve.

You walk up and down dirt tracks to find groups of Italians basking in secluded coves like seal colonies. The water is so clear and you swim with the fishes.

I have swum in the Med and drunk Italian craft beers on a terrace overlooking the sea, eaten ricotta pastries and gelati, and it feels normal and pre-covid.
#sicily #sicilia #zingaro #meditteranean #italy

Sicily - almost back to normal. #sicily #sicilia #

Sicily - almost back to normal.
#sicily #sicilia #scopello #caffe

Arriverderci England #holiday #gatwick #easyjet #s

Arriverderci England
#holiday #gatwick #easyjet #sicily #sunshine

London innit. . #london #tfl #londonunderground #r

London innit.
.
#london #tfl #londonunderground #roundel #tube #tuberoundel #balham #gatewaytothesouth

Discover the stories of Bletchley Park and the cod

Discover the stories of Bletchley Park and the codebreakers in my online talk tomorrow (Sunday) tap @uktoursonline and follow the link on the bio.

We’ll hear about Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman, Bill Tutte and other geniuses that helped crack the German #Enigma and Lorenz systems; how the work at ‘BP’ gave the allies the advantage on D-Day, and the role of #Churchill.

We’ll also look at the origins of the codebreakers in #WW1 and how their work brought the US into the war.

@uktoursonline
#bletchley #bletchleypark #zimmermantelegram #codebreakers #gchq #ww2 #ww2history #virtualtours #lorenzmachine #enigma

On 2 August I’m doing a virtual tour “Most sec

On 2 August I’m doing a virtual tour “Most secret: the code breakers and Bletchley Park.” Tap @UKToursOnline and follow the link in the bio to book.
It will feature this man - #alanturing - here captured in a slate #sculpture by artist #stephenkettle, as well as stories from WW1 to the present.
Hear how Room 40 of the Admiralty evolved in the Government Code and Cipher School; the cracking of the German #enigma and #lorenz systems; how ‘ultra’ intelligence helped on #DDay and the role of Turing, Welchman, Tutte, Flowers and others.
#ww2 #ww2history #bletchleypark #codebreakers #virtualtours #billtutte #winstonchurchill

The raggy plane tree on Clapham Common through the

The raggy plane tree on Clapham Common through the past nine months.
#tree #planetree #londonplane #battersearise #claphamcommon

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