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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Old members of the @pembroke1347.bsky.social Stokes Society pay tribute to the great man

People recreate the pose shown in a portrait of mathematician and scientist George Gabriel Stokes in the dining hall of Pembroke College, Cambridge

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 05/09/2026

I think I managed to follow the instructions.

Beer garden instructions, and a successfully acquired beer and apfelstrudel.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 30/08/2026

DB train manager just announced that Coach 21 is out of use because there is no oxygen in it. Which is a bit worrying. I suspect the air-con is kaput.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 26/08/2026

What's on fire in the Sutton area of south London?

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Once upon a time there was light in my life... The #eclipse seen from a packed #Addiscombe recreation ground in #Croydon.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Something is on fire in the #Carshalton/#Hackbridge sort of area.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Lizard. More southern than a lager shandy.

Lizard, the southernmost point of mainland Great Britain.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 25/07/2026

A house was haunted by the ghost of its #apotropaic dead cat. A spokesman said "this is the one thing we didn't want to happen".

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 20/06/2026

The Lamb round the corner feels genuinely old, even if perhaps not quite as old as the sign says. Most online history is about secret passages ;-).

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 20/06/2026

Calling @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social. Beams "it is said" are from the Spanish Armada, in the Rainbow pub, Eastbourne.

It is said the beams in this room are salvage from a Spanish Armada ship of 1588

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 24/05/2026

Interesting C20th church font in Betchworth, Surrey

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 17/05/2026

100 Years of Winnie the Pooh exhibition at the Firsts London rare book fair

100 Years of Winnie the Pooh exhibition at First ls London rare book fair

100 Years of Winnie the Pooh exhibition at Firsts London rare book fair

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 25/04/2026

Model railway wagon announced by Rapido at #NarrowGaugeSouth today.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 11/04/2026

Once again, @badbabybunny.bsky.social is the highlight of #Salute53. In 500 years people will be studying this "First Past the Post" election game for the hidden details, like they now study Tudor royal portraits

Three wheeler car with political jokes too hard to explain.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 15/03/2026

It was worth getting @lewisbaston.bsky.social's #Borderlines book just for this bit.

"I imagine everyone who writes a book, and a fair proportion of readers, can recall something from their childhood that makes the idea of a PE teacher leading a fascist movement seem appropriate."

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 11/03/2026

First Electrostar gets #GreatBritishRailways branding ahead of Thameslink, Southern & Great Northern nationalisation.

British Rail double arrow in the dirt on a train.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 01/03/2026

Uzbek plov at Elephant & Castle

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 01/03/2026

These notifications need better wording.

The USSR under Stalin. Let's keep it going!

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 07/02/2026

Forget ship's timbers @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social - the Eight Bells pub in Alton is built from old signal boxes.

Old railway signalling equipment in a pub

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 25/01/2026

A friend wanted something different to eat, so we tried an #Uzbekistan place at Seven Dials in London.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 24/01/2026

Do you have any particular interests? Well, I'm mainly into industrial narrow gauge of the Humber banks, and Central Asian railway geopolitics. Call it 2 quid?

Models of Soviet and Chinese locos, a scrap Dapol JCB and a New Holland wheel loader.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 04/01/2026

Where sky and Lincolnshire and water meet

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 01/01/2026

Waves breaking over #Hornsea prom just before high tide today.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 01/01/2026

#Hornsea new year swim called off as it is too dangerous today.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 28/12/2025

Good to see that the City of Culture thing has had a lasting impact on Hull.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 26/12/2025

Disaster strikes, as our favourite #Bridlington fish and chip shop isn't open today

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 20/12/2025

Built a #OO9 model of one of the narrow gauge railway wagons used when art works were stored in Manod quarry for safekeeping duing the war, and now preserved at @amberleymuseum.bsky.social

OO9 model of Manod quarry wagon, with The Fallen Madonna by Van Klomp.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 20/12/2025

Couldn't resist this OO scale model of my seasonal hero. www.scalesceneryandfigures.co.uk/products/mm6...

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 02/11/2025

My model Khyber railway train wasn't finished for the anniversary

HO scale model of a Pakistan Railways SGS steam loco

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 02/11/2025

Today is the 100th anniversary of the official opening of the #KhyberPass railway on 2 November 1925. Read the history of the strategic line on the North West Frontier of what was then India and is now Pakistan here: www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/... #OTD

Report on the opening of the Khyber Railway

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 01/11/2025

I spy @maunsellforts.bsky.social behind a model boat on the bar in the Ship & Lobster pub, Gravesend.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 24/10/2025

AI-based marketing might be the current big thing, but you can't beat the time honoured approach of handing out Free Beer. #BrightonSEO

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 24/10/2025

They've discovered the inverted pyramid! 👀 #BrightonSEO

"Bottom line up front" - or the inverted pyramid to journalists

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 24/10/2025

Why are conference slides inevitably too small to be read by the audience nowadays? #BrightonSEO

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 18/10/2025

I loved this layout inspired by #Beirut at the #Uckfield #modelrailway show. Something genuinely different.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 17/10/2025

Shiny Buddhist things from #Afghanistan at the #BritishMuseum's Ancient India exhibition.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 21/09/2025

Train ticketing broke. I have a hand written ticket to get me home.

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 21/09/2025

#Skegness feels like if Wetherspoon's ran an entire town. There's nothing wrong with it, it's popular, it's making good use of Victorian buildings and it's very affordable. But I've spent all weekend on my phone wondering if there is something a bit better nearby...

People eating fish and chips in Skegness

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 20/09/2025

Calling @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social - is this pub built from 100% totally authentic genuinely real ship timbers??? (Also, Spalding museum has a display about spiral stairs...)

Admiral Benbow pub, Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire

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Andrew Grantham @andrewgrantham.co.uk · 31/08/2025

The first time I've properly visited my namesake town.

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