Tavistock’s old railway line path a couple of Decembers ago, #Devon #ghosts #photography

Early evening the other day. Here in Veryan Bay. #Cornwall

A stone split and a stone spared on Staple Tor. #Dartmoor

Langstone circle with misty Mis Tor. By FJ Widgery, after the circle's restoration in 1893. #Dartmoor (Held by Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter)

It’s at about this point in December when looking out at yet another dark biblical deluge that I start to get fed up with a British winter. I think I’ll post a floral illustration a day for January from my book collection . Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams

Already perched on the crest of a hill, the unusually tall crocketed pinnacles hoist this church higher. St Mary's, Walkhampton. Back at the beginning of summer, in May. #Dartmoor

Lane from Peter Tavy to Tavy. Cleave this week, I love these vignettes of the moor you see in #Devon lanes. Western #Dartmoor. #photography

Twisty hawthorns by the road to Whiteworks, Princetown last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

Two days in one frame. November colours as a squall crosses Veryan Bay. #Cornwall

Memories of summer. The Merrivale menhir on its platform. A stone circle beyond, on the crest, from where the great double rows can be seen. Fragmentary rows in front and right of menhir. And shaded Mistor overlooking all. Dartmoor

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2 🏺

Storm water rushes along the Grimstone Leat on Pew Tor Common, Dartmoor. A simple slab bridge helps sheep, cattle and ponies, and now walkers and their dogs, over the barrier. Neatly done with a paved floor and a kerb of low upright stones keeping the leat's flow in line. Possibly later medieval.

A late Neolithic dagger found in the pile dwelling site of the Roseninsel, Bavaria.The blade is made of flint from the Monti Lessini, upper Italy. Dating 3500 - 2700 BC. On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Late autumn oaks in the Teign valley.

Three times a gatepost. First a slip-bar post in which planks or shivers were run into the chiselled slots. Then fitted with a heavy farm gate using the nearer hinges. And now, from the 19th century, a daintier wrought iron churchyard gate. Walkhampton, #Dartmoor.

An atypical illustration from my archive. An army boot, drawn from life, IDing the parts of a boot. It was made in one of the Northampton factories I illustrated for the English Heritage book "Made to Last: The buildings of the Northamptonshire boot & shoe industry". #drawing #PenArt

Stone wall near Peter Tavy last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #moors

Just found this. The Feelgoods from the year before I first saw them. Down by the Jetty. Great aerial intro to Southend and its pier to start with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzF0...

Grey Mare sleeping in 2020. East Moor, #Cornwall. Goodaver stone circle then still hidden behind the skylined conifers.

Reminded by FB of my patience being tested in 2021. A nearly finished drawing of the west end of York Minster as seen from the south transept parapet walkway. #ArchitecturalIllistration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

Studies of people lifting & carrying sacks plus a couple of sack hoists informed the final illustration. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtYear

Surviving setts of the 19th century Liskeard and Caradon Railway near Gonamena. First horses and then steam engines pulled wagons up to Bodmin Moor between these stone hedges. To take coal for mine engines and collect ores and granite blocks from mines and quarries. #Cornwall

'Mapledurham Mill' near Reading photographed by William Tylar around 1896. A Pressphotoman piece on his photographic tour along the River Thames featured in a newly-discovered set of large prints. pressphotoman.com/2025/08/11/t...

Not a blurred photo, just a blurred sky; quite common in #Cornwall. Squall crossing Veryan Bay and about to consume the mighty Dodman.

Are your sheep always turning up late for work? Are they taking too long on their lunch break or simply struggling to get through the workload? Are they always just mucking about? Then you need some

The basaltic shoreline of Co Antrim, northern Ireland

This stone has been perched on a moorstone on the slopes of Kilmar for a very long time: observe the erosion shadow beneath it. It is also a beautiful eye-catcher in a place with many other boulders. Ravens stand on it, and rabbits gather here too, as can be seen. Perhaps people did too? #Cornwall

A late Victorian hedge brought to an elegant point on a granite post, sadly now snapped. Blacktor, Fawymore (Bodmin Moor), #Cornwall

Beautifully written obituary, and a marvellous portrait by Chris Redgrave.

This sky is screeching. Scores of swifts. Tiny black specks. #Cornwall

A sun-dappled seal petroglyph in the Fulford Harbour estuary on Salt Spring Island, Canada. Made by Saanich people.

At the Saturday Market, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, Canada June 2025

The Woolwich Rotunda: From waltzes to wargames by @emilyvcole.bsky.social,‬ Sarah Newsome, and Verena McCaig is now available in Historic England's Informed Conservation series. This book highlights the building's innovation, placing the Rotunda in its historical context. bit.ly/HERotunda

Folding of waves, mountains and clouds on the evening ferry back to Salt Spring Island from Crofton.

Starlings have displaced purple martins from their natural nesting places so people build nest boxes for them, as here, on the old ferry terminal at Vesuvius Bay, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Stone clearance heap in a colonialist's 1870s orchard on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

British Columbia

A study in jetties (overhanging upper floors) and window sills used for displaying goods, especially butchers meat, in Shambles, York. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtYear

Back from visiting parents in Canada. A colonial boundary style still in use on Salt Spring Island. Meadow against woodland, separated by a split-cedar fence lifted off the ground by stones and held in place by weight and gravity.

Richard Tongue was committed to recording megaliths (large stones that form historic monuments). Often located in sites not easily accessed, he wanted to increase awareness of those who wouldn't be able to visit them & the importance of recognising the need for preservation & protection.

Bridge across the Bedalder. From Great Care to Hard Head. And from Cardinham parish to Warleggan. It was already there in 1748 when mapped by Thomas Martyn. And that great white cone is a lot later: the sky tip of the Glynn Valley Clayworks.

Sheep on the beach #Shetland

Approaching the very fine livestock bridge on the Yelverton - Princetown railway track. Built to allow grazing cattle, sheep and ponies to cross the line safely.

Into Devon to find Denham Bridge, crossing the Tavy. The rock carved away to allow the left hand arch to accommodate a fiercer flow.

Godolphin

Roof boss in Bradstone church west Devon, dated 1718. Apparently depicting the eclipse of 2nd March that year, when c33% of the sun was eclipsed by the moon at c 7.30 in the morning.