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Bob Gann

@bobgann.bsky.social
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Labour city councillor for Salisbury St Edmund’s. Honorary museum librarian & social history researcher. Community farmer. Southampton FC supporter.

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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Bob’s funeral will be held at 12 on September 2nd at Salisbury Arts Centre. Tea and Coffee from 11.30. Wear whatever you like. No flowers, donations to the Samaritans via the funeral director (darren@dmfuneraldirectors.co.uk). All welcome to our home for refreshments after the funeral.
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Bob’s sons Tom, Jack and Joey here. We’re really sad to let you know that Bob died suddenly on Thursday. The funeral will be in about 3 weeks – we’ll share further details here when we can. If you want to get in touch, you can email Jane, our mum, at jcgannuk[at]yahoo.co.uk
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Lovely sunny day for meeting environment friendly businesses and community organisations at People in the Park. Looking forward to continuing conversations at Charter Assembly on 1 June
People outside stall at environment festival Stalls at environment festival in Salisbury
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
In #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek met Salisbury Well City and other brilliant local initiatives supporting mental health in our community. Particularly good to see schemes involving our green spaces and arts www.wellcitysalisbury.co.uk
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Home - Well-City Salisbury
Well-City Salisbury is about connection – to the arts, to heritage, to our local area, to the landscape and to each other.
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Spotted at Salisbury rail station. Who’s going to count the cost of not tackling climate change? Your children. And my grandchildren. #NetZero
Poster altered with graffiti to promote action against climate emergency
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
After two previous failed attempts (kids with tantrums, car break down) we finally saw the Bayeux Tapestry today. It was worth the wait
Section of the Bayeux Tapestry showing King Harold with an arrow in his eye.
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Looking forward to taking the graffiti tour of #Salisbury Cathedral. We’re used to seeing memorials of the rich & famous but these are the marks of the ordinary people of our city www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Messages from the past: Salisbury Cathedral launches graffiti tours
Guides point out some of the thousands of marks around church – but stories behind many of them remain elusive
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Salisbury Labour @salisburylabour.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Reform candidate in St Edmunds is running on pledge to bring ducks back to the Maltings. There’s plenty of ducks there already and elsewhere on the river. We believe in free movement of ducks.
Ducks on river at Maltings, Salisbury Ducks on the river at Maltings, Salisbury
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Salisbury Labour @salisburylabour.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Labour #localelection candidates Sharon Rideout (St Francis & Stratford) & Bob Gann (St Edmund’s) at Wiltshire Police bike marking this morning. Labour will support #cyclists by preventing bike theft & fixing #potholes
Two Labour Party candidates with a bike
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Alan Scrase @atscrase.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@salisburylabour.bsky.social Labour is working for Salisbury’s young people. We’re backing youth clubs and pushing Wiltshire Council to expand mental health services for young residents. #YouthSupport #LabourForSalisbury
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Salisbury Labour @salisburylabour.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
List of achievements of Labour government
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Salisbury Labour @salisburylabour.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
From April councils will start to receive their share of Labour’s £1.6bn road maintenance fund. Councils must publish how many #potholes they’ve fixed or lose funds. Make sure Wilts Council deliver on fixing our roads www.gov.uk/government/n...
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PM tells councils to prove action on pothole plague to unlock extra cash and reveals £4.8 billion for major roads
The Plan for Change is tackling the pothole plague, building vital roads and ensuring every penny is delivering results for the taxpayer.
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Alan Scrase @atscrase.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Labour is committed to protecting Salisbury’s green spaces. We’re improving parks locally and pushing Wiltshire Council to defend our countryside. Let’s keep Salisbury green! #GreenerSalisbury #LabourForSalisbury
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Salisbury Labour @salisburylabour.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
According to Kwikfit, who should know, #potholes damage cost motorists £1.5bn last year - £120 per driver. Labour will act to fix roads & pavements #VoteLabour #LocalElections www.kwik-fit.com/press/pothol...
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Potholes Cost Nation's Drivers �1.5bn in Repairs
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Salisbury Labour @salisburylabour.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Taking part in #Parkrun in #Salisbury Churchill Gardens. #Labour will protect our green spaces and rivers, and support our community groups #VoteLabour #LocalElections
People running along a path by a river. There are long shadows from the trees
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Salisbury Labour @salisburylabour.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Down to the @wiltscouncil.bsky.social offices to pick up nomination papers for #localelections. Great to see volunteers working hard in Secret Garden. Peaceful haven for local community #SalisburyGreenerFuture
People digging in community garden. There are raised beds and a greenhouse
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Beautiful spring day for #parkrun at #Clapham Common. Only marred by going face down over a tree root. Thanks to the kind marshals & other runners who picked me up. What a great community. PS. I still finished in reasonable time
Me with bloody nose and bruised lip.
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Feels like #Spring as I lay out my seed potatoes.
Seed potatoes (variety: Rocket) laid out in a cardboard egg tray with the wooden side of a shed the background
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Watching Queer Eye featuring a librarian in Las Vegas. Described himself as a “matchmaker for resources”. Pretty much sums up the role. thelibrarydistrict.org/locations/WH...
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Whitney Library
Whitney Library provides the community in Southern Nevada with free events and programs, homework help and tutoring, ESL classes and…
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Always enjoy the Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social orchid show. Beautiful and bonkers at the same time
Display of orchids with model of a Peruvian vicuña
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Relied on these Expert books when I first started gardening in the 1970s www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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David Hessayon obituary
Gardening writer whose no-nonsense Expert guides have remained in the bestseller lists since the 1950s
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Sheila Webber @sheilawebber.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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New media and Information Literacy toolkit from UNESCO
UNESCO just launched a publication aimed organisations supporting young people - Journey through the MILtiverse: media and information literacy toolkit for youth organizations. It is partly quizzes and partly self-auditing questions, and starts by asking…
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Good Things Foundation @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We tackle digital exclusion through the National Databank, National Device Bank and Learn My Way. These services are delivered by Digital Inclusion Hubs across the UK in the National Digital Inclusion Network. Discover more about our services at www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-services.
Dark blue background. Bold white text in a red rounded shape reads: "How we tackle digital exclusion." Further bold white text below reads: "National Databank. National Device Bank. Learn My Way. National Digital Inclusion Network." Four teal icons - A mobile phone, a WiFi connection symbol, a computer arrow and two people. Good Things Foundation logo to the bottom right. Three curved lines to the corners - one pink, one orange and one yellow.
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Quite an impact at my corner shop this morning as all the papers with #MakeItFair on front pages. #AI in creative industries
Newspapers all saying Make It Fair on front pages
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Why working in the library beats WFH www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The one change that worked: I found an escape from online life by swapping my home office for the library
I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes – information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books ...
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Part of excellent exhibition on 1980s at @salisburymuseum.bsky.social Released during miners strike, listeners were encouraged to play record at 6pm creating surge in demand for electricity
Sleeve of vinyl record by The Enemy Within released during Miners Strike in 1984
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What we can learn from Spain on how immigration has made an open, prosperous country www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Looking forward to seeing the new exhibition on the 1980s just opened @ salisburymuseum.bsky.social salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/198...
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The Salisbury Museum (@salisburymuseum.bsky.social)
Discover over 500,000 years of history in our grade I listed building. Archaeology, art, fashion, local history & more. Open daily from 10am to 5pm.
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Sad to see Rick Buckler of The Jam has died #RIPRick
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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A beautiful and thoughtful exhibition Blood: Ties and Tensions @thackraymuseum.bsky.social, explores connection, infection and much more. I learned about the US-dominated global plasma trade and The Blood Bag Project - set up by the Leeds-based textile artist Leigh Bowser to encourage blood donation
Hand-sewn blood bag with text Red Blood Cells Donate O Rh neg and embroidered blood cells
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Beard Liberation Front renews ban on JD Vance after Munich speech
Beard Liberation Front 14th February Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Beard Liberation Front renews ban on JD Vance after Munich speech The Beard Liberation Front, the info…
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Welcome back to Salisbury for 13th century Sarum Master Bible www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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‘Important and beautiful’ 13th-century Bible returns to Salisbury
Sarum Master Bible to go on display at cathedral after being in private hands for almost 800 years
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Boom. Wordle 1,334 2/6 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
On such a beautiful beach (Sao Beach, Phu Quoc, Vietnam). Just out of shot, washed up plastic waste - including plastic straws.
Sao Beach, Vietnam. Sea breaks onto golden sand. There is plastic waste but not visible in the picture.
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Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New exhibition opens today. It's about Blood. 🩸 Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Our partners at @universityofleeds.bsky.social: @hematopolitics.bsky.social. Art by Gemma Wood. Design by Émilie Chen.
An exhibition poster showing an organic, branching, dark crimson sculpture entangled in web of red threads. The title BLOOD is written in big, bold all capitals, with the words "Ties and Tensions" beneath.A museum display case seen through an illuminated web of red branches. It is framed by a network of red threads. The case contains Victorian transfusion apparatus and modern blood bags.A museum display case with a flame coloured sculpture of twisted branches reaching from the ground to engulf it. The case contains medicine bottles, documents and badges. An interpretation panel reads: "Infection".A series of historic blood donation posters on a gallery wall. One shows the silhouette of a soldier contained within a glass blood collection bottle. A real version of the bottle is spotlit in a case beneath the poster.
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Martha Hicks spent most of her life in Victorian institutions in Wiltshire - gaol, workhouse, asylum. Labelled a pauper lunatic, she was a spirited & defiant woman. I traced her life for @salisburymuseum.bsky.social in blog here salisburymuseum.wordpress.com
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The Salisbury Museum Volunteer Blog
A place to share and discover more about volunteering at The Salisbury Museum
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Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Happy Year of the Snake In the 1930s, snake venom was one of the best available treatments for haemophilia. 🐍🩸💉
A snake in a glass bottle. It is dry, grey and aged. A fading label on the base of the bottle reads "The Viper". The bottle sits on a shelf in a museum display in front of a red sculptural blood vessel and next to a small red medicine box labelled "Rusven".
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Dr Jieun Kim @jinikim.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It is all getting so real! Blood: Ties and Tensions exhibition is opening this Saturday! Thank you everyone at Thackray Museum of Medicine and the wonderful Hematopolitics team for making this happen! Special thanks to my colleagues and collaborators in Leeds, Japan and Korea for all the support!
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
So sad to hear about Marianne Faithfull. Playing Broken English. What an album that is www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as
The late singer made her share of bad decisions – but someone this artistically adventurous and unafraid was never going to have an ordinary life
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Buildings in #Bangkok with rainbow lighting. Yesterday Thailand was the first country in South East Asia to legalise equal marriage
River with boats and skyscrapers in Bangkok. One building is lit up with the colours of the rainbow
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Really enjoying reading this. We live not far from East Stratton & wife has lived & worked in New Orleans so link between Barings & Louisiana Purchase particularly interesting. Will do the walk
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s been a while since I’ve been involved with WHO but came across these name badges today. Reminder that Trump withdrawing is absolute folly while the world faces emerging global health emergencies.
Name badges for World Health Organization with sky blue lanyards
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Dr Lisa McNally @lisamcnally.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Short piece in the BMJ. I've highlighted parkrun as a key way to motivate physical activity. Link here... www.bmj.com/content/386/...
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Social factors in encouraging physical activity
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
In London this weekend so great to join 1140 people on Clapham Common #parkrun Pleased to win my age category - although in a very youthful field there weren’t many of us oldies www.parkrun.org.uk/claphamcommon/
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home | Clapham Common parkrun | Clapham Common parkrunFacebookXInstagramYouTubeTikTokLinkedIn
Clapham Common parkrun is one of many worldwide free, fun, and friendly 5k community events that takes place every week
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Straight down the cinema this afternoon to see the Bob Dylan film www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
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A Complete Unknown review – Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan is an electric revelation
James Mangold’s biopic follows the rise of the era-defining star with Chalamet brilliantly embodying his shapeshifting allure
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Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Can our digital avatars make our real selves healthier? A little thing I wrote to go with our last exhibition thackraymuseum.co.uk/what-is-a-di...
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What is a Digital Twin? - Thackray Museum of Medicine
Explore the incredible world of medicine.
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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Air pollution in the south of England could be driving health inequalities, according to a new report we’ve published as part of the Clean Air South Network. Read more here: brnw.ch/21wPZyD
A geographic map showing air quality domain scores (LSOA) in a region, with colour gradients representing score ranges from -1.6 to 1.2. Dark blue areas indicate the lowest scores, while red and orange areas show the highest scores. The map includes coastal areas and inland regions, with notable higher scores concentrated near urban zones like Southampton, Portsmouth, and Bournemouth. A legend in the bottom-left corner explains the colour scale, and a north arrow and scale bar are present for the orientation
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Meta dropping fact checking will exacerbate extremist radicalisation amongst us boomers. Important research from @smidgeproject.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Fears for UK boomer radicalisation on Facebook after Meta drops factcheckers
For middle-aged users, it will be ‘even harder to discern the truth’ among extremist content, expert says
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Bob Gann @bobgann.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
When I had my cataracts done all I got was tetracaine
Man with clear plastic eye shield following cataract surgery
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Who says archaeology has to be old? This corroded USB stick was excavated from a London school playing field in 2012. If archaeological objects give a snapshot of different eras, this object fits the bill, being loaded with Amy Winehouse music, Bhangra dance videos & content from adult websites.
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