The energy transition is often told as a story of new entrants displacing incumbents. But it also depends on incumbents making the shift themselves. Visited the @vaillantuk.bsky.social factory in Belper today — founded 1874, now making heat pumps. 150 years of heritage, transforming from within.

Every seaside town promenade should have one. A venerable shelter, Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

Morning all. Photographer Robin Weaver. Pensioners on a day trip to Aberavon beach 1970s.

Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’.

Shelter. #Alphabetchallenge #WeekMForMovies

Morning all. Day Trippers, Aberystwyth, 1985. Photographer Colin Thomas.

An afternoon moon over Holme Island, Cumbria, United Kingdom.

Between the beach huts #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLayers #Photography

Stones, sand, sea, sky and distant dog walker. West Cumbria, United Kingdom.

Figureheads, National Maritime Museum, London, United Kingdom.

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekHForHs #Scape Hazy

Skyscape, Fleetwood, Lancashire.

West Kirby sands, sky and clouds with distant views of Hilbre Islands and North Wales.

Winter sun finds the fruit bowl.

The comedian in winter.

From the Post Office’s 1934 “Outposts Of Britain” posters by the great Edward McKnight Kauffer. I’m not sure folks would warm to their homes being labelled as “outposts” today.But I do love the posters & how commercial art of the period characteristically incorporated quite radical designs elements.

If you love the seaside please consider supporting this proposal to have it added to the UK's first inventory of #LivingHeritage 🏖️🌊⚓

Wheelie Ben

Breaking news

Geese on the move this morning.

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The calm of a South Yorkshire morning drifts into the place.

“This year has made people look and think about living here differently. There’s a whole generation of young people coming up who won’t believe what I did about Bradford.”

Never the same view twice at the beach. Aldwick, West Sussex. 26/12/2025

The cat has never really got used to sharing its windowsill with the Christmas lights.

If there was more goodwill than ill will, the world would be a better place. It is within our power to do this. Within the power of each & every one of us.

Brown pebbles, benches and English Channel. Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom.

Watching the sea and checking a wristwatch. Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom.

If anyone would like to buy my book it is in the sale now :-) xxx

New Brighton Lighthouse - Seascape I 📷 Nikon FM3A - Color Skopar 28mm 🎞️ Kodak TMAX 100 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

Miscellaneous weather, Morecambe Bay, United Kingdom.

“I’m An Idiot What’s Your Excuse”, Comedy Carpet, Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

“a writer with an unillusioned yet tenderly perceptive sense of nature, in all its beauty and indifference.” www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/an-un...

Patch of Blue – John Coburn @johncoburn.bsky.social

#LetsDoIt25 D10T2 - My Woman - Lew Stone & Monseigneur Band, voc. Al Bowlly - 1932 Yes, the sample, but the song is an absolute banger on its own merits. Third appearance by Nat Gonella so far, although only one credited www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7N...

Above all, Remembrance is a personal thing.

Sunday morning, Scarborough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Venetian blind, sunshine and Bournemouth Pier.

Morecambe Bay through the windowpane of the Lancaster to Barrow in Furness train, United Kingdom.

Normandy People #ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky

Starting to look grey over the sauce bottles.

Saunton Sands

Bench and bin passing the time of day, Seascale, United Kingdom.

The Humber Bridge from Hessle Foreshore at sunset. #hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #humberbridge #sunset #sky #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky

Two days of glorious weather and two days of incessant rain when we were in Gairloch last week. You can guess on which of the days I took this. However Mellon Udrigle is still beautiful in any weather. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers

Bognor Regis Pier, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

Solway Firth scooters and sitters.

Clevedon Pier ⚫️⚪️✖️ #classicmono #EastCoastKin #Photography #art #BlackAndWhitePhotography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXs