Christian Georg Shutz, 'The Devil's Bridge, St Gothard Pass Road', 1781. #art #landscape #Romanticism #sublime #Switzerland #devil

This is our ‘Arab’ printing press, on display in our transport and technology gallery. Often considered to be the best press of its time it was designed to be easily disassembled and reassembled and one was even taken on the Shackleton Expedition! #Bexhill #Printing #Shackleton

#PhantomsFriday tomorrow, when the theme will be GHOSTS! Please join us for more manifestations of ghostly lore, legend, yarns, art, culture and cool stuff from the archives. I'm thinking of changing this to a SpookySunday. Better for me because no buses run and I'm stuck in the house. Also...

Magnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593.

Ancient pottery with personality!🏺 Face pots from Roman Britain some 2,000 years ago! Museum of London 📷 by me #Archaeology

#WyrdWednesday In 1786 a sea monster described as 14 metres long with a human-like head and a hard turtle-like shell was washed up at Porthleven in Cornwall after a storm, as depicted in this contemporary watercolour by Charles Catton. peter-moore.co.uk/blog/histori...

"Our Cartoon Of The Week. No. 1. - His Worship the Mayor (Ald. J. A. Paton, J.P.)." Bexhill Chronicle 9.7.1910. #Bexhill #Sussex #Mayor #History #1910s #ThrowbackThursday

Twin Peaks: Moon obscured by clouds.

Sunbeam, English Channel 9.7.1876. "For four long hours, therefore, we lolloped about in the trough of a heavy sea, the sails flapping as the vessel rolled. By the time the steam was up so was the breeze - a contrary one, of course...We were all very sorry for ourselves..." #Brassey #History #1870s

We love moths, and, if you ever thought they were only beige & night-flying  - think again! A handy guide to commonly seen moths, in daytime and at night.

"Egerton Park And Shelter Hall, Bexhill-On-Sea, Hellier, Bexhill." Postcard sent 1913. This is now Bexhill Museum! #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Museum #Park #History #1910s #ThrowbackThursday

Possible Iron Age settlement discovered above town. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Kraken 'Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth...' The Kraken, by Alfred Tennyson (circa 1830) 🎨 by Northern Tides Gallery #WyrdWednesday

I'll just drop this here. #WyrdWednesday #RayBradbury #lighthouse #monster #dinosaur

Georgia's isolated Blackbeard Island is said to have a spiritual anchor. The notorious pirate Edward Teach left his golden treasure here, protected by a headless apparition that haunts the wild dunes on foggy coastal nights. Is it Blackbeard himself? #WyrdWednesday #SouthernFolklore #Georgia

#RodentOfTheDay Baird's Pocket Gopher (Geomys breviceps) "POPULATION STATUS. Common. Baird's pocket gopher has declined dramatically in the coastal prairies around the western edge of Galveston Bay. " Info: www.depts.ttu.edu/nsrl/mammals...

Where the dark Altamaha River meets the Atlantic, folklore warns of the Altamaha-ha or "Altie" - a 30-foot sea serpent with a bony ridge back and alligator like head. Georgia's coastal marshes, prehistoric relic navigating the waterways! #WyrdWednesday #SouthernFolklore #SeaSerpent

#WyrdWednesday "Davy Jones is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, shipwrecks, and other disasters warning of death and woe." 'The adventures of Peregrine Pickle' by Tobias Smollett 1751 #BookChatWeekly

""More Entertainments" At The Colonnade. Councillor Hicks redeems another promise and introduces the Sea Serpent." Christmas Number of the Bexhill Observer 16.12.1911. #WyrdWednesday

I've posted it before but I'll post it again for #WyrdWednesday. Paul Hardy illustration for 'The Story Hunters' by E R Suffling, 1896. 'Skellington' is a much better word than 'skeleton' I've always thought. #ghosts #Gothic #skeletons #skellingtons #BookChatWeekly

#TrilobiteTuesday Paraceraurus from the Ordovician of Asker. Impressive left genal spine and paired pygidial spines. Galleries of the Oslo Palaeontological Museum.

Strike the bell, second mate Let us go below Look away to windward You can see it's going to blow Look at the glass You can see that it is fell We wish the you would hurry up And strike, strike the bell #WyrdWednesday

Borough brooch, presented to Frank Bond. He was alderman and mayor of #Bexhill from 1915-1916.

It truly is.

Gloriously Gothic.

#WyrdWednesday 'Henry B Norton Lost at Sea, Aged 26 years.' It is no wonder that seafarers were superstitious as the sea held many perils. Quartz was not allowed on board as it meant the ship would hit a rock. Whistling was forbidden, in case it summoned a storm whilst they never spoke of Hares.

"A pop extravaganza featuring the 'Royal Ruler' Emperor Rosko, is coming to the De La Warr Pavilion, next Sunday... Chart-toppers Johnny Nash and the Equals will be starring in the show...to raise money for the Glyne Gap School...The show will also feature Bob Marley..." #Bexhill Observer 8.7.1972.

📸 1951.530 A C-Ware bowl, Egypt, ?Naqada I Period. 🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4428...

The idea of radiosynthesis is so cool – like something out of science fiction. But it's maybe even cooler that this weird fungus is doing something we don't understand to neutralize something so dangerous to humans. www.sciencealert.com/this-chernob...

"The Sea King's Castle. - Drawn By S. Read." The Illustrated London News, Christmas Number 1874. #WyrdWednesday #Sea #Castle #Art #History #1870s

The opening of the Picture Playhouse Cinema, Western Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex 8.7.1921. #Bexhill #Sussex #Cinema #History #1920s

The 32 wind directions, from Philippe Briet's 'Parallela geographiae', 1648-9

There at a table sat the three guests with halters round their necks, trolling the old Dutch freebooter's glee: 'For three merry lads be we And three merry lads be we; I on the land, and thou on the sand, And Jack on the gallows-tree.' Washington Irving, 'Guests From Gibbet Island' #WyrdWednesday

Sinbad the Sailor is the protagonist of an ancient Middle-Eastern story cycle involving uncharted islands, sea monsters, giants, slave traders, hidden treasures, and other adventures. He's portrayed as clever, reckless, amoral, and ridiculously lucky. #WyrdWednesday

The menhir of La Verziau de Gargantua in Bois-lès-Pargny (Aisne) stands 5m tall. In one tradition it was a whetstone on which the giant sharpened his scythe, in another a piece of grit from his clog which he tossed away. Card by Barnaud c.1905.

Hare studies, Bruno Liljefors, 1885.

Sunbeam #Torquay 8.7.1876. "About ten o'clock we got under way, but lay-to for breakfast. We then had a regular beat of it down Channel - everybody being ill. We formed a melancholy-looking little row down the lee side of the ship...we were quite as cheery as might have been expected..." #Brassey

Ahoy, wyrdlings! Welcome to this week's nautical #WyrdWednesday! Our theme: 'Shanties, Strange Shores, Sea Serpents – Oceanic Adventures!' @cwreeve.bsky.social is your captain this morning; let's set sail across wyrd waves together! 🦜

In 1910, the Captain of HMS Caesar sailing between the Cumbrian coast and Isle of Man reported seeing a repilitian creature with a dog's head leaping out the water. Perhaps a dobhar-chú or 'water dog' from lore more in my "Folklore of the Lake District" #wyrdwednesday #booksky

Political activist, Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst (c.1910) photographed by Christina Broom, Scottish photographer and UK's first female press photographer #womensart

If you perfect your spelling and acquire a few capital letters and stops, your letters might be read with more enjoyment.

Come aboard and RO, you Wyrdlings, RO! because: 'Shanties, Strange Shores, Sea Serpents – Oceanic Adventures!' is this week’s #Wyrdwednesday topic. Bring your sea chests and tall tales and Ro! away with us!

Recently the island of Mousa became home to Shetland ponies once again again. It is a joy to see the next generation of these beautiful horses standing by the iconic Mousa broch #Shetland

Goodnight. What the Cat Sees, Howard Weingarden.

They were like that for a while , according to @dianadwilder.bsky.social - today's #FoxOfTheDay ( with bonus Squirrel )

'Moonshine' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

This is our model of the Sovereign Light. This was a very popular local landmark for many years and could be spotted out at sea towards Eastbourne, warning ships of dangerous rocks. #Bexhill

#RodentOfTheDay Andean Porcupine (Coendou quichua) "This porcupine is little known, but is probably arboreal, nocturnal and solitary like its relatives. The species is thought to be uncommon to rare and the population decreasing." animalia.bio/andean-porcu...

Would you prefer London to the country? Your salary would be greater but you might have to live in a garret.

David Roberts, Notre Dame, Rouen, 1825. #Gothic #church #medieval #France #art