04 March 2018

Karan Anne Porter

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Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: Berwick-upon-Tweed, September 1991.
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28 February 2018

Modern Leaded Lights

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Leaded lights are commonly seen as an art only of the past. Indeed, the vast majority of the work undertak...
12 February 2018

St Joseph's, Wigan

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The current incarnation of St Joseph's was designed by George Goldie, who specialised in Roman Catholi...
06 February 2018

Holy Trinity, Newcastle-under-Lyme

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The Church of the Holy Trinity, in Newcastle-under-Lyme, is a glorious architectural oddity. It was designed by its first priest, Father J...
02 February 2018

Cadgwith, The Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall

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20 December 2017

Wavox - Milk Monitor

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Manufactured by Truvox, of Wembley, London, the Wavox is an Art Deco-esque extension speaker of the 1950s. Truvox manufactured public ad...
07 December 2017

Ekco Radio Stands

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Ekco is known to have produced stands for eight of its iconic Bakelite radios of the 1930s and 1940s. There is direct contemporary eviden...
11 November 2017

X-Ray Specs

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Likely manufactured in the late-1960s but updated in the mid-1980s - the Freed transformer inside is dated A...
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16 October 2017

Munrow Sports Centre, Birmingham

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The Munrow Sports Centre was constructed in phases as part of the University of Birmingham's expansion plan of the 1950s. It is due ...
30 July 2017

Ekco Microphone

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This six inch tall moving coil microphone was likely released by Ekco in about 1934, as the design echoes ...
17 July 2017

Gumball, Rallied

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Bought from a yard sale in Morgantown, Indiana, this XYZ Vending Bulk-PRO triple-head gumball machine is n...