28 July 2015

Those Blue Remembered Hills

›
To be found in Craven Arms, South Shropshire, The Land of Lost Content showcases, over three packed storeys, the popular culture collect...
18 June 2015

Scarlett Chain Home, Isle of Man

›
The first network of early warning radar stations built around the coast of Britain before and during WWII was code-named Chain Home (CH...
17 June 2015

In the Glasshouse

›
The World of Glass Museum in St Helens, which incorporates the Pilkington Glass Museum, is home to the remains of the oldest surviving g...
31 May 2015

Wells Coated Ekco

›
Four of Ekco's five round radios (not the AD75) were available for special order in a variety of colours, the cabinet formed of urea fo...
25 May 2015

Zwolle - Foundation Museum

›
The building that now houses the fine art collection of the Museum de Fundatie - the Museum Foundation - has had a number of lives. It s...
16 May 2015

Stockport Air Raid Shelters

›
Stockport's civilian air raid shelters, although far from being the largest in the land as claimed by the city's museum, did ope...
27 April 2015

Loopwheels - Reinventing the Wheel

›
Loopwheels, made by Jelly Products Ltd, of Boughton in Nottinghamshire, are wheels for bicycles and wheelchairs that incorporate suspen...
28 March 2015

MAMCO, Geneva

›
The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, MAMCO, is to be found in the Bains district of Geneva, Switzerland. In the main th...
05 March 2015

Royal Mail Special Stamps - Bridges

›
On 5 March 2015 Royal Mail published a set of special stamps, on the subject of UK bridges. The design of ...
1 comment:
04 March 2015

Karan Anne Porter

›
Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: with Belinda Ramsden, Fulham, 1990.
27 February 2015

Arākī in Amsterdam

›
An exhibition of work by Nobuyoshi Araki, the prolific Japanese photographer famous for his images of kinbaku, at Foam, the Foto...
21 February 2015

Hill Close Gardens, Warwick

›
A survivor from the early Victorian period, Hill Close Gardens is an inter-linked group of partitioned leisure gardens that run up the h...
31 January 2015

Newport - Transporter Bridge

›
Newport Transporter Bridge is one of only 19 such bridges ever built to completion, worldwide (counting on...

Newport - College of Art

›
In 1899 Lord Tredegar sold the land of Clarence Place, Newport, Gwent, to enable construction of the Newp...
30 January 2015

Newport - West Usk Lighthouse

›
West Usk Lighthouse was built in 1821 by James Walker, a Scottish civil engineer who went on to build a further 21 lighthouses. Grade II...
01 January 2015

The Pencil of Nature

›
The prescription is to take one per day. One photograph of the natural world, taken within the curtilage of the home of youngmangonewest, ea...
25 December 2014

Shrewsbury Canal - Wappenshall Junction

›
Opened in 1796, the Shrewsbury Canal, constructed by Josiah Clowes and, later, Thomas Telford, linked Shrewsbury and Trench. Here an in...