👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - The Hill Garden & Pergola #Hampstead #London Rose - 📷 18.09.2025 #elevensestime

#Binham Priory #Norfolk The blocked west window. Much discussion in #Pevsner guidebook ( @yalebooks.bsky.social ) of whether this is the earliest surviving example of bar tracery in England. Dated to early 1240s. #WindowsOnWednesday

This Osprey across the River Dart from Stoke Gabriel Sailing Club is possibly improving his success rate - two dives one fish today! This fish was taken up into a dead tree above the river.

#NancyAstor 1908 #SingerSargent “Heiress”. Sargent’s American Portraits exhibition at #KenwoodHouse #London Interesting to see Sargent’s image of a youthful Nancy (known for her wit, vivacity & intelligence), painted a decade before she became the first female MP to sit in Parliament. See ALT text

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Dahlia - 📷 18.09.2025 #elevensestime

#Roman tile - 10th legion Late 2nd Century CE Inscription: LEG(lo) X G(emina) P(ia) F(idells) Found in bath complex Burgstall hill, Mušov, Czech Republic. Such buildings suggest planning for long term Roman control. Marcus Aurelius exhibition - Rheinisches Landesmuseum, #Trier #TilesOnTuesday

St John’s Church, #Hampstead #London #MaryTempleMoore designer of the “Road to Emmaus” #stained glass window. 1929 Her memorial is at the foot of the chancel steps. #MonumentMonday #MemorialMonday @womensartbluesky.bsky.social

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #KenwoodHouse #Hampstead #London Rose - 📷 18.09.2025 #elevensestime

Church of St Mary, #Ware #Hertfordshire “Early 20th Century sanctuary steps and 1893 mosaic floor” - #HistoricEngland Much to appreciate. Such fine detail in the mosaic, but especially the beautiful “marbling” in the stonework of the steps. #MosaicMonday

🚶‍♀️ 🚶🏻‍♂️ #Binham #Norfolk • Scabious • Common dogwood • Yarrow (& 🐞) #WildflowerHour

The Tamar Belle ferry boat Barbican - Royal William Yard - Cremyll #Plymouth #Devon to #Cremyll #Cornwall 📷 23.08.2025 #Summer #Reflections

Bank House -late 18th Century #DownhamMarket #Norfolk In 1857, house & brewery at end of garden was bought by #Norwich - based Gurney's Bank. The brewery remained part of the bank’s estate, until absorbed by Barclays & sold in 1902 The house is now private with a beautiful garden #HeritageOpenDay

Old Courthouse & Police House - 1851 #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Local magistrates met every Thursday & county judge every two months. • Chairman's chair from Downham Market Magistrates Court • Courthouse • Waiting room - police to left, defendants to right. Eyeballing each other! 👀 #HeritageOpenDay

Beautiful weather for #HeritageOpenDay #DownhamMarket #Norfolk

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #PeckoverHouse #Wisbech #Cambridgeshire Everlasting flowers - 📷 20.09.2025 #elevensestime

#FindsFriday: A #Roman amber flask, from Aquileia, dating 1st/2nd c. AD. Aquileia's position at the end of a main amber trade route resulted in its becoming a centre for the carving and distribution of Baltic amber across the Roman Empire. 📷: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia

St Michael & All Angels Church, #Waterford, #Hertfordshire “Prophetess Miriam” window (detail) - 1872 Designed by Edward #Burne-Jones Made by Morris & Co “A remarkably dynamic design” - #Pevsner guidebook. @yalebooks.bsky.social The model was his muse, Maria Zambaco, #StainedGlassSunday

Royal Albert & Tamar Bridges #Plymouth #Devon to #Saltash #Cornwall #Summer #Reflections

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #Whittlesford #Cambridgeshire Dahlia - 📷 16.09.2025 #elevensestime

#Whittlesford, #Cambridgeshire #Medieval Guildhall of late 15th Century, with EIIR postbox. The wheelie-bin is not doing a very good job of hiding behind the post. 😉 #PostboxSaturday

Ring-shaped flask 4th Century The flask, with missing base, was probably made in the Rhine workshops or imitated their productions. It has the then fashionable drinking quotations, - “Hostess, fill my flask ….” Found Rue des Ursins, Paris Now Musée Carnavalet, #Paris #RomanSiteSaturday

Church of St Gregory, #Dawlish, #Devon A #Medieval #Perpendicular west tower of red sandstone. It has an octagonal turret, crenellated crockets & waterspouts. The rest of the church was rebuilt in the 19th Century. #SteepleSaturday

👀 #WellsNextTheSea #Norfolk Evening #reflections

Pilgrim's Costrel, c.1610-40 These drinking bottles were decorated with marbled slip. They had lion-headed loops through which to string a cord for carrying over the shoulder. Exported from #Italy, probably #Pisa. Displayed - @penleehousegallery.bsky.social #Penzance #Cornwall #FindsFriday

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Honeysuckle - 📷 Now #elevensestime

Church of St John, #Hampstead #London A #Victorian font designed by Alfred Bell of Clayton & Bell, known normally for stained glass The marble font has Ionic columns to incorporate a 1747 bowl. #FontsOnFriday

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #NorthHill #Cornwall Floral display - 📷 15.08.2025 #elevensestime

Church of St Torney, #NorthHill, #Cornwall Doorway in South porch of the late 15th or early 16th Century. #AdoorableThursday

Like a scene from "Ben Hur": For #ReliefWednesday a terracotta relief depicting an accident at a chariot-race at the Circus Maximus. The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Former “Duke William” pub, #Harleston #Norfolk A timber framed building faced with red brick & with new windows. Once owned by Lacons Brewery, #GreatYarmouth. #HistoricEngland Listed Building Grade II. #Architecture #LocalHistory #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #Whittlesford #Cambridgeshire Zinnia - 📷 16.09.2025 #elevensestime

#WalpoleStPeter Church, #Norfolk Carved bench end. #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #CastleRising #Norfolk Rose - 📷 14.09.2025 In background - Trinity Hospital - founded by Henry Howard & built 1609-15 for £451. A very large amount. #elevensestime

St Michael & All Angels Church, #Waterford, #Hertfordshire Encaustic Milton style tiles in the sanctuary 1872 #TilesOnTuesday

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Rose - 📷 10.09.2025 #elevensestime

#Roman mosaic with Venus & Cupid 3rd Century CE Found Schweich, near Trier, Germany It is of high quality with natural stones being used for the carefully graded colours. However, Venus’ diadem is made of gold glass. Now in Rheinisches Landesmuseum, #Trier #MosaicMonday

The ‘Wirksworth Stone’ - a sculptured stone-slab from St. Mary’s Church at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Comprising of biblical scenes and figures, the stone dates from the C7th to C9th and may have originally been used as a coffin lid. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework

Menadarva, Near #Camborne #Cornwall 17th Century dwelling, now farm shed. 👀 at the detailing on those beautiful mullioned windows - a sign of status. Uncoursed killas rubble with granite quoins & dressings. See ALT text. #HistoricEngland Listed Building Grade II #SundayStonework #LocalHistory

#Stunday #Roses #Flowers Pretty close to being the last rose of summer, and going out in style, Munstead Wood.

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #Harleston #Norfolk Rose - 📷 13.09.2025 #elevensestime

Great Malvern Priory, #GreatMalvern #Worcestershire The “Creation Window” of c.1480-90. A detail of this #Medieval window shows Noah in his Ark. The 550 year old window has recently been restored. #StainedGlassSunday #MedievalMonday

#Eye #Suffolk Suffolk Saturday Sensational #Sunset

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #Harleston #Norfolk Dahlia - 📷 Now #elevensestime

The first #Roman Moselle bridge, #Trier 18/17 BCE A model showing probable construction methods. See ALT text for details. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, #Trier #Germany #RomanSiteSaturday

St Mary the Virgin, #Anmer #Norfolk A late 13th and early to mid-14th Century church. It has been much restored, with the tower work dating to 1888. Part of the King’s #Sandringham Estate since 1896. #SteepleSaturday #Shadows

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #KingsLynn #Norfolk Honeysuckle - 📷 09.09.2025 #elevensestime

#Burrator #Dartmoor #Devon Signpost to Cross Gate & Yennadon Down. Next to a bridge of granite blocks over the #Devonport Leat. Nearby was Lower Lowery Farm. Its land & the waters of the leat are used for 1898 Burrator Reservoir, which provides water for #Plymouth. #FingerpostFriday #LocalHistory

St Just in Penwith, #Cornwall A font believed by #Pevsner guidebook to be 19th Century (not 14th as claimed). @yalebooks.bsky.social Small “bowl” found at site of St Helen’s Oratory, #CapeCornwall. Some claim it is a font or holy water stoup. However, idea rejected by others. #FontsOnFriday

#FenEdge #TheFens #Norfolk #Trees #Cloudscape

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Rose - 📷 08.09.2025 #elevensestime