Malcolm Stoneman
@malcolmstoneman.bsky.social
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Interests - Walking, Cycling, Travel, History, Nature. Retired Head of Humanities, European. 🇪🇺
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Rose - 📷 07.11.2025
#elevensestime
about 5 hours ago
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Church of St Mary,
#Ware
#Hertfordshire
St Catherine, from the Te Deum Window
#ChristopherWhall
- 1908 “Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, but refreshingly different from the ordinary run of early 20th Century windows.” -
#Pevsner
guidebook
@yalebooks.bsky.social
#StainedGlassSunday
about 8 hours ago
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👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Marigold - 📷 03.11.2025
#elevensestime
1 day ago
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Denver,
#Norfolk
A King Charles III postbox - C III R
#PostboxSaturday
add a skeleton here at some point
1 day ago
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Campanile or Bell Tower Duomo di Siena - 1264 The square
#Romanesque
tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles. On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
1 day ago
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“The Sower”
#VincentvanGogh
- 1888 “Poets & Lovers” exhibition, National Gallery,
#London
- 2024 Amazed by Van Gogh application of paint - the impression of rapid movement by the sower. The choice of colour, such as the mauve field. Long-term loan at Kunsthaus, Zürich
#Art
#Impressionism
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Bill Coulson
2 days ago
Firecrest, one of three at Slapton Ley NNR yesterday. All were feeding actively, as was this Chiffchaff in the willows finding insects under the leaves. On the beach - one of a pair of Sanderling down by the water's edge, and in the fenced area a very late-leaving Wheatear.
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#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Rose - 📷 31.10.2025
#elevensestime
2 days ago
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“The Trumpington Cross” Trumpington bed burial c 650 -710 AD The burial of a female teenager. 1 of only 5 crosses of this type found in Britain. Excavated in 2011. Now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
#Cambridge
#FindsFriday
#medieval
#archaeology
2 days ago
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Baptismal font - 1502 The Baptistery of the Duomo, Volterrra, Italy Octagonal font - Andrea Contucci, known as "il Sansovino". Detail - The baptism of Christ
#FontsOnFriday
2 days ago
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Alison Fisk
3 days ago
Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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“All your ducks in a row” - 🦆 🦆 🦆 Etruscan “navicella-type” bronze fibula 8th-7th Century BCE Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala,
#Siena
3 days ago
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#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Dahlia - 📷 28.10.2025
#elevensestime
4 days ago
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Saint Barbara
#TilmanRiemenschneider
- c. 1510 Linden wood, originally painted. “The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption Mainfränkisches Museum,
#Würzburg
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
4 days ago
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🚶🏻♂️ River Great Ouse Relief Channel.
#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
I particularly love The Fens for the big skies & clouds. These teasels & hawthorn berries provided an interesting contrast with this afternoon’s sky.
#FenEdge
#TheFens
#Cloudscape
5 days ago
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#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Fuchsia- 📷 01.11.2025
#elevensestime
5 days ago
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Judy Doherty
5 days ago
It's been a while, Bluesky friends. Moving house is qute a business but here we are happily ensconced in Shropshire. There will be churches of the Marches to follow but lets start with hills. The walking is fab.
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16th-century majolica tile flooring. Santuario Casa di Santa Caterina
#Siena
The tiles were produced at a variety of dates, 1504-1505, 1527, 1579-1582, 1598-1599, 1972. Recently restored & now exhibiting some of their original brilliance.
#TilesOnTuesday
#Renaissance
5 days ago
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Lengthening autumnal shadows - Easthall Manor,
#Denver
#Norfolk
#BluePlaque
- Captain George William Manby Born 1765 Inventor of a portable fire extinguisher & apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks. Manby’s mortar fired a line from the shore to a wrecked ship so people could be winched ashore.
6 days ago
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#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Dahlia - 📷 28.10.2025
#elevensestime
6 days ago
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“The Coronation of the Virgin” (detail) Duomo di
#Siena
#Italy
Mosaic on a pediment of the “west front”. Designer - Luigi Mussini. 1878 Made by - Venetian masters.
#MosaicMonday
6 days ago
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Ingoldisthorpe,
#Norfolk
The water droplets 💦 , seemed to really glisten on (what I believe is) Chicory.
#WildflowerHour
7 days ago
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River Great Ouse
#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
#Sunset
#Reflections
#FenEdge
#TheFens
7 days ago
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🚶🏻♂️ River Great Ouse,
#Norfolk
A silhouetted tree with the setting sun & autumnal
#reflections
on the river.
#FenEdge
#TheFens
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🚶🏻♂️ River Great Ouse,
#Norfolk
The speed of the incoming tide at Stowbridge - 13.5 kilometres / 31.75 miles from the sea beyond Kings Lynn (to left)
#FenEdge
#TheFens
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👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Rose - 📷 28.10.2025
#elevensestime
7 days ago
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Nina Willburger
7 days ago
An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable. The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2 🏺
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Chiesa di San Francesco, Pistoia, Italy A stained glass window appropriately featuring St Francis.
#StainedGlassSunday
7 days ago
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The Walks, Kings Lynn, Norfolk Autumnal colours-
#KingsLynn
8 days ago
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#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Dahlia - 📷 28.10.2025
#elevensestime
8 days ago
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Bullhead shaped double lamp - Late 1st Century CE At San Rossore, the wrecks of 30 vessels were discovered in the late 1990s Cargos & everyday items were found including this Roman lamp, found in the flood levels of the shipyard Now in Museo delle Navi Antiche di Pisa,
#Pisa
#RomanSiteSaturday
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John Vigar
8 days ago
The Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden used to be the railway station. Most crowned heads passed through on their way to take the waters.
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Great Bircham, Norfolk A
#Victorian
postbox set in a brick pillar on the village street. It still has a working flap, where the letters are posted.
#PostboxSaturday
8 days ago
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St Michael & All Angels Church,
#Waterford
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#Hertfordshire
Designed by Henry Woodyer in 1871/2. A shingled belfry, with a splay-foot spire. The nave is of Kentish rag stone, with a timber porch.
#SteepleSaturday
8 days ago
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Bylines Network
12 days ago
The National Railway Museum, York: an appreciation Always well worth a visit, the National Railway Museum’s extensive renovation makes it even more of a great day out By Ian Richardson
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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The National Railway Museum, York : an appreciation
Always well worth a visit, the National Railway Museum’s extensive renovation makes it even more of a great day out
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/the-national-railway-museum-york-an-appreciation/
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“The Cliffs near Land's End” Robert Morson Hughes (1873 - 1953) I love the dramatic scene. The stark, sculptural cliffs & the breaking waves of the sea. Owned by Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall Seen at
@penleehousegallery.bsky.social
#Art
#NewlynSchool
9 days ago
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#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Marigold - 📷 25.10.2025
#elevensestime
9 days ago
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Hispanic amphora, Haltern 70 Ist Century BCE - 2nd Century CE Discovered 1772 - Duomo, Pistoia. Now Museo di San Salvatore, Pistoia A simple reconstructed amphora, but linked to excellent computer simulation - “How to move goods to Pistoia?”
#FindsFriday
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9 days ago
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18th Century font, The Baptistery of the Duomo, Volterrra, Italy Octagonal font - Giovanni Vaccà. 1759 Statue of John the Baptist - Giovanni Antonio Cybei. 1771
#FontsOnFriday
9 days ago
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Burnham Overy Staithe, North Norfolk
#Reflections
10 days ago
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“Harbour of Saint-Tropez in the sunlight”. Artist - Francis Picabia - 1908 I personally like how the dabs of colour in close-up, create the overall image when viewed from a distance.
#Art
10 days ago
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#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Patio Rose - 📷 Today
#elevensestime
10 days ago
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"Water Lily" table lamp - 1903/4 Designer & maker - Louis Majorelle Glass - Daum glassworks Chased gilt bronze base, acid-etched & wheel-blown glass globe. Now
@museeorsay.bsky.social
, Paris.
#IronworkThursday
#ArtNouveau
10 days ago
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#Sunset
#Cloudscape
View over The Wash from above Dersingham, Norfolk
11 days ago
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Malcolm Stoneman
11 days ago
#Rosewednesday
#Roses
#Roses
Thelast Gertrude Jekyll bloom for the year
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👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Rose - 📷 28.10.2025
#elevensestime
11 days ago
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An oak angled showcase - 1904/6 Antoni Gaudí Originally in the dining room of Casa Battló, Barcelona, Spain Now
@museeorsay.bsky.social
, Paris, France
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
11 days ago
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“On the Bench in the Bois” (detail) Giovanni Boldini - 1872 Young Italian artists Boldini & De Nittis arrived in Paris soon after Franco Prussian War & violence of The Commune. Their art reflected a “desire for lightness”. “Belle Époque” exhibition. Palazzo Blu,
#Pisa
#Italy
#Art
#BelleEpoque
12 days ago
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👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#DownhamMarket
#Norfolk
Nasturtium - 📷 27.10.2025
#elevensestime
12 days ago
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“Visiting the Imprisoned” by Santi Buglioni. Museo dello Spedale del Ceppo, Pistoia One of the panels in a glazed terracotta freeze - “The Seven Acts of Mercy”. It was commissioned by Leonardo Buonafede (the 'hospitalier') who appears in each scene. 1526-8. (See ALT text)
#TilesOnTuesday
12 days ago
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