Uzbek plov at Elephant & Castle

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Forget ship's timbers @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social - the Eight Bells pub in Alton is built from old signal boxes.

A mix of architecture. Industrial, with Reckitts Chimney & The former British Extracting Silo in the background. The Northumberland Ave Almshouses in the foreground with the magnificent clock tower behind the trees. #hull #yorkshire #travel #over_yonder #photography #stunday #photographersunited

Achievement unlocked: Prof Ronald Hutton answered my question at a @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture. Even if my hopes of signing up for a harmless religion centred on feasting are 1600 years too late🔪🐂🌞🍽

A friend wanted something different to eat, so we tried an #Uzbekistan place at Seven Dials in London.

Do you have any particular interests? Well, I'm mainly into industrial narrow gauge of the Humber banks, and Central Asian railway geopolitics. Call it 2 quid?

Iran completes Mianeh – Ardabil railway construction https://bit.ly/4qvPfFG

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Interior confirma que al menos hay dos muertos por el descarrilamiento de dos trenes en Adamuz (Córdoba) 📹 @eleanorinthesky social.elpais.com/p3e…

Have you seen this @andrewgrantham.co.uk? (And anyone else.) It made me laugh so hard I cried.

Where sky and Lincolnshire and water meet

Due to feedback from our testers, we have decided to patch "Happy New Year" to "Acceptable New Year" to avoid disappointment and better match the realities of the market.

Waves breaking over #Hornsea prom just before high tide today.

#Hornsea new year swim called off as it is too dangerous today.

The @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social are in the news: BBC News - Seeing in the new year with dinner in a #dinosaur www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good to see that the City of Culture thing has had a lasting impact on Hull.

Disaster strikes, as our favourite #Bridlington fish and chip shop isn't open today

Built a #OO9 model of one of the narrow gauge railway wagons used when art works were stored in Manod quarry for safekeeping duing the war, and now preserved at @amberleymuseum.bsky.social

Couldn't resist this OO scale model of my seasonal hero. www.scalesceneryandfigures.co.uk/products/mm6...

I went to an exhibition of his photos in Hove this summer, and watched a @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture the other day.

East West Railway Co has updated its plans for the #Oxford to #Cambridge corridor following public consultation and detailed technical design work. @railbusinessuk.com looks at what is in the latest proposals www.railwaygazette.com/uk/east-west...

BBC really burying the lede there

Model kit for a lapis lazuli mine in ancient #Margiana www.plasticsoldierreview.com/review.aspx?...

My model Khyber railway train wasn't finished for the anniversary

Today is the 100th anniversary of the official opening of the #KhyberPass railway on 2 November 1925. Read the history of the strategic line on the North West Frontier of what was then India and is now Pakistan here: www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/... #OTD

I spy @maunsellforts.bsky.social behind a model boat on the bar in the Ship & Lobster pub, Gravesend.

@andrewgrantham.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=U75d...

Death of the em dash mourned at the #BrightonSEO publishing round table — but can't say who by because of the @chathamhouse.org rule (of which, contrary to instructions, there is just the one)

AI-based marketing might be the current big thing, but you can't beat the time honoured approach of handing out Free Beer. #BrightonSEO

This is how to do it. #BrightonSEO

First warning about the em-dash being a sign of a 🤖 #BrightonSEO

They've discovered the inverted pyramid! 👀 #BrightonSEO

Why are conference slides inevitably too small to be read by the audience nowadays? #BrightonSEO

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I loved this layout inspired by #Beirut at the #Uckfield #modelrailway show. Something genuinely different.

Shiny Buddhist things from #Afghanistan at the #BritishMuseum's Ancient India exhibition.

Very sad news from @pembroke1347.bsky.social. I lived in a room above Mr K in my first year, and he complained that we *weren't* making too much noise. www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...

Holy headline!

"Khushalgarh-Kohat-Thal Railway was worked by North Western Railway. It was a military railway which ran close to the border with Afghanistan, linking the border town of Thal with the wider network at Khushalgarh." rogerfarnworth.com/2025/09/25/t...

Enjoying the way n>1 people have said "I bet you can explain why this isn't really the 200th anniversary"

Kazakhstan's KTZ awards Wabtec its largest-ever locomotive supply and support deal https://bit.ly/42F8rqA

Video: #India tests rail-mounted intermediate-range ballistic missile launch system https://www.railwaygazette.com/technology/india-tests-rail-borne-ballistic-missile-launch-system/69665.article

Train ticketing broke. I have a hand written ticket to get me home.

#Skegness feels like if Wetherspoon's ran an entire town. There's nothing wrong with it, it's popular, it's making good use of Victorian buildings and it's very affordable. But I've spent all weekend on my phone wondering if there is something a bit better nearby...

Despite widespread claims, there are not many mediaeval pubs still serving. The ones that survive are all inns. The best preserved is the New Inn at Gloucester. We know from tree-ring dating that construction began in 1432 and it was first mentioned in the records in 1455 🧵

Calling @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social - is this pub built from 100% totally authentic genuinely real ship timbers??? (Also, Spalding museum has a display about spiral stairs...)