Newham to get its museum back after 30 years with new heritage centre share.google/MOWMLSVOBut6...

8 Secrets Of The South Bank Lion | Londonist share.google/vQUen7nCGIEO...

Early morning laughs with #MargaretRutherford and #RichardHearne in... 📽️ MISS ROBIN HOOD (1952) 7:35am comedy #TPTVsubtitles

May 1978: Groceries ad from Tesco (+PG Tips Tea Bags; Nescafe; Winalot; John West Red Salmon; Fray Bentos Corned Beef; Gulf Four Star Petrol; Branston Pickle; Kelloggs Corn Flakes; McVities Chocolate Homewheat; McVities Digestive Biscuits; Penguin Milk Chocolate Biscuits; Quosh Drinks, and more)

Upper Thames Street being built in the box on the left from my post on Baynard’s Castle, A Roman Monument And The Last Working Crane In the City at alondoninheritance.com/london-churc...

Happy Birthday George.

Remembering footballer George Best, born on this day 1946 in Belfast.

Blakes 7 - full theme by Dudlley Simpson (including a jazzy bit). youtu.be/r0YLevRJ1nA?...

All the Blake's 7 title sequences. youtu.be/LvGBFrdcfzY?...

#OnThisDay 1983: The Travelcard was launched by London Transport. ➡️ buff.ly/c5MdR6b

Deep Space Vehicle 2 - aka The Liberator from BBC TV's Blake's 7. I was nine years old when this cult tv series started in 1979, and a major art of its appeal to me. It's a strange but wonderful design, that was unique.

The raw footage of the death of Rodney Bewes in Doctor Who is GOLD!

Here's Clint Eastwood's first appearance in a Western, from 1956's Star in the Dust:

Remembering Kay Kendall on her birthday 🎂 "Why shouldn't I have fun?" she says in Blithe Spirit. "I died young, didn't I?" Kendall was only 33 when she died. 📷 Cecil Beaton, 1957 (the year she was diagnosed with leukemia)

Raising a glass of space Vimto to Michael Keating RIP.

RIP the wonderful Michael Keating. A superb actor.

This one's for Michael Keating youtu.be/pnautWFuEnQ?...

RIP

The team at Big Finish were all deeply saddened to learn of the death of Michael Keating, who is best known to our listeners as Blake's 7's Vila. Our tribute is here: https://bgfn.sh/ripmichael RIP Michael.

I put this on and the years just melted away. Wonderful. youtu.be/Y67zF3LlVAM?...

It's #internationalTeaDay so here are a few examples that I have squirrelled in my collection. I think the full ones may now be a little past their best by date .... #tea

Would dearly like to buy (or borrow) a copy of this book. Private publication so rare! Does anyone have a copy lurking on their shelves please?

Victoria line at Oxford Circus with original 1967-tube stock, illuminated roundel panels (now only found at Pimlico on the line) & the original tiled panels; we replicated these on the southbound platform at modernisation; these on the north were lost in the 1984 fire. @joebrownlondon.bsky.social

The official opening, 101 years ago today, of the County of London Electric Supply Co's new generating station at Barking. It is possibly the only time that Royalty, in the form of King George V who carried out the opening, ever set foot in Creekmouth. #london #history flic.kr/p/2jXojc7

Ladybird book in the spotlight. ‘How It Works: Television’ (1968) Artist: BH Robinson

Found this 94-year-old copy of The Architectural Review at last weekend’s garage safari in Kingsdown. It’s focused on the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London and contains some great photos and adverts. Will share some in this thread and more over the days ahead 🧵

Last Sunday's new post - The Royal Festival Hall at 75. A trip back to when the hall opened at the beginning of May, 1951 at alondoninheritance.com/london-build...

The Chelsea Drugstore – the pub of the future? | Boak & Bailey share.google/VN7UmLgJvS9e...

Is a farmer collecting money twice from the government by altering cattle ear tags? Channel Premiere Episode! 🚓 Z-CARS (1963) 7pm 🚓 #BrianBlessed #StratfordJohns #FrankWindsor #SidonieBond #JosephBrady 'Caught By The Ears' #TPTVsubtitles

It's taken a while but here is my article about the industrial buildings at Hythe Road, NW10, that could be at risk from development. This is a work in progress. wordsbymarkamies.com/2026/04/17/h...

RIP Alan Rothwell - David Barlow in Corrie, drug addict Nicholas Black in Brookside, but best known to a generation from Hickory House and Picture Box. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTG...

Alan Rothwell (1937 – 2026) R.I.P

1930 Holidays by LMS - jazzy cover to the compendious volume listing resorts, amenities & places of interest issued annually during inter-war years by each of the "Big 4" railways. This cover is by "HT" - I suspect Horace Taylor. #railways #holidays #graphicdesign ↘️ flic.kr/p/2scSd4d

I saw this pop up on Instagram. Its ai imagery. That aircraft seems to be a concoction of elements. This is the set up behind it Home - The London Tunnels share.google/X2Sv0fOc51dq...

Tomorrow is View Day at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which also means it's our next #Archives Open Day! 📖👀🥳 Drop in between 11am-3pm tomorrow, Wednesday 13 May to see original records and objects, including some featured in #OurHospitalThroughTime, and find out more about our collections

London, 1936 Roof painters, Cannon Street railway station. 📷 Harry Todd

May 1974: Clothing ad from C&A (+Polyester/Viscose Jackets; Polyester/Cotton, rain jackets; Bonded Polyester Trouser Suits; Polyester/Viscose Raincoats; Bonded Crimplene Blazers; Cotton/Poplin Printed Dresses; Girls dress 'n' pants in polyester cotton, and more) «A little money well spent»

The final episode of PARK RANGER (1978) 9am starring #NormanBowler as a park warden. 'Fire' #TPTVsubtitles

Dickie Attenborough and Gary Olsen found out BSB were showing films for a tenner a month in 1990

See you lot on the bus!!