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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 13/09/2026

Don’t forget now…. St Mungo’s Kirk, Penicuik, Midlothian

A momento mori (‘remember you will die’) in Penicuik, Scotland, Set in a square panel is a bad relief skill over crossed bones under the inscription MOMENTO MORI

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 06/09/2026

Modern folk wisdom: “cows kill more people than sharks” Cows:

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 17/08/2026

Working in London today and had a bit of time to kill with the work camera. Midland Grand 1873-76 m, St Pancras

Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras, George Gilbert Scott, architect 1873-76. Photo (c) Statement Heritage, August 2026

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 14/08/2026

I think they should have just sent us this.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 12/08/2026

No visible eclipse here (Midlothian) due to clouds. But without those clouds we wouldn’t have this iridescence.

Iridescent clouds following the solar eclipse in Midlothian Scotland on 12/07/26

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 06/08/2026

Proof, were any more needed, that we are the stupidest thing ever to happen to ourselves.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 14/06/2026

St Andrew, William Wilson 1960. St Andrews Church Dunnino, Fife. #scotland #stainedglasssunday

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 13/06/2026

Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) foraging today on my raspberry canes in Penicuik, Midlothian.

Tree bumblebee foraging on Raspberry cane

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 18/03/2026

When the Cornish did Brutalism before it was fashionable. China clay dry, Leswidden, St Just. Early 20th century, likely 1910-1930ish #brutalism #industry #archaeology

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 03/03/2026

good to see the Mail has a firm grip on the worst case scenario. “Worst of All” #unhingedheadlines

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 14/02/2026

Shap, Cumbria. And something not seen for a while.

Sun rising into a blue sky over frosty hills

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 22/01/2026

There seems to be a problem with the bleedin’ obvious here.

News report regarding apparent US ‘security guarentees’ for Ukraine

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 13/01/2026

Hurrah for kind people who return lost stuff.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 11/01/2026

Welcome, new blueskiers, to a safer harbour.

Aerial photograph (my own) of the twin harbours of Mevagissey, Cornwall, UK. December 2023. The water is azure and a few fishing boats shelter in the outer harbour, smaller boats in the older inner harbour. A 19th century cast iron lighthouse marks the entrance.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 13/12/2025

Some 20th century heritage (disappearing fast) from recent fieldwork.

Cottage door, early-mid twentieth century, near Helford Passage, Cornwall. The door is of timber with faded and peeling blue paint and has a margin glazed upper panel from which the central leaded lights have mostly fallen.

Facade of the former Falmouth branch of Marks and Spencer (1933-extended 1966) and structural engineering works designed by MBA of Truro to facilitate its retention as part of a residential redevelopment. The shopfloor halls behind have been demolished. The shopfront is one of many fine examples on Falmouth High St.

Mid 20th century domestic garage at Trebeigh, near Helford Passage. Concrete block, timber frame (missing vertical boarding). Crinkly tin roof.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 13/12/2025

Official Notice: Form K. ‘Seats for Female Shop Assistants’ (For more information please re-read)

Yellowing notice attached with rusty drawing pins to a green door in Launceston, Cornwall at the back of a shop. It reads ‘SHOPS ACT, 1950 Seats for Female Shop Assistants. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT SEATS ARE PROVIDED IN THIS SHOP FOR FEMALE SHOP ASSISTANTS EMPLOYED IN THE SERVING OF CUSTOMERS, AND THAT THESE ASSISTANTS ARE INTENDED TO MAR USE OF THE SEATS WHENEVER THE USE THEREOF DOES NOT INTERFERE WIRH THIER WORK. Signed. R l PETHERICK 13 HIGH ST LAUNCESTON. Note - a copy of this notice must either be kept constantly exhibited in such a manner that it may be readily seen and read by any person whom it affects or be supplied to every such person.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 02/12/2025

Some drone pictures from my Sunday stroll up the Lyne Water along the Cross Borders Drove Road. Lots going on in these hills.

Aerial image of Faw Mount (the hill to left), Windy Gowl (the deep scar in the middle distance) and the Cross Border Drove Road (in the right of the image going away towards West Linton

A sheep fold, cut across by a later dyke (earthen boundary) between the Cross Border Drove Road and the Lyne Water

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 01/12/2025

Watching Grand Designs when someone is breaking a historic building.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 22/10/2025

A relief to see that subsection 9 provides for any actions relating to the ‘apparatus’

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 17/02/2025

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines strikes again…

Betteridges Law of Headlines states that the most likely answer to a headline phrased with a binary question is always ‘no’ or it would have been presented as an assertion.
This example posits the exciting prospect that the weather in central Scotland in February might be anything other than drab.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 12/02/2025

History doesn’t repeat, but it certainly echoes. #Ukraine

Trump Truth Social Post Feb 12th 2025 re agreement on future friendship in exchange for appeasement of territorial aggression.

Memorandum between Chamberlain and Hitler, Munich sept 30, 1938

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 23/01/2025

A squall before the storm. Main runway RAF Davidstow Moor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall this afternoon (sound on)

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 23/12/2024

Specifically Walsoken… was starting to think I’d made it too hard

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 23/12/2024

Guess the place. #MapMonday surv1887 published 1887. Map cc-by National Library of Scotland. Description in alt text.

6 inch to the mile Ordnance Survey County Series historic map extract showing lots of orchards, a small linear village, a mixture of linear and curvilinear field boundaries and curvilinear / irregular and straight lanes, the placenames Chapnall Field, Turnpike Marsh and Staithe Field, a medieval antiquity ‘Holy Trinity Chapel’, and an avenue associated with ‘Musticott House’.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 18/12/2024

Smallholding homestead, mid 19th century, near Truro, Cornwall. Cottage, stable, pigsties, vegetable garden and, originally a small orchard. 📸 my own

An aerial photograph of a cottage standing in an oval garden plot, with overgrown orchards to the rear, starting to overwhelm a simple stable and pigsty. (c) www.statement-heritage.com Nov 2024.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 17/12/2024

Buzza Hill was the site of excavations by William Borlase (1695-1772) in 1752. Reported in Phil. Trans. Of The R. Soc (XLVIII, 1753) these are among the earliest formally reported archaeological observations 🧵

Survey plan of two barrows at Buzza Hill, Scilly by William Borlase (1752) reproduced from ‘Ancient Scilly’ P 1974, David and Charles

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 17/12/2024

Chambered tomb, Buzza Hill, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. #TombTuesday. 🧵

Chambered tomb, with one in situ megalithic lintel, on a grassy hill overlooking a small town (Hugh Town) set in a sandy isthmus with sea to either side. On the horizon are the islands of Samson and Bryher

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 15/12/2024

Crichton Castle, Midlothian. Storm incoming. 15.09.24

Castle, winter tree, small boy, stormy sky

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 15/12/2024

Roll up, roll up. ‘England’ by the pound. Stonehenge visitor centre, November 2013 , but don’t fret, still available in time for Christmas. #StandingStoneSunday #Anthropocene 1/2

Plastic snow globe, containing plastic triathlons, plastic grass, and plastic snow suspended in a mixture likely to include ingredients such as water, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), and glycerol. Supplied in nation branded box. The perfect momento of your visit for an eternity in landfill.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 14/12/2024

And here’s an almost Mousehole Cat, keeping watch over the memorial stone of lost mariner Obed Cary in the chuchyard of Paul parish church just up the hill. 📷 2024 by me

Cat and Gravestone. Memorial reads “In Loving Memory of
OBED CARY
Master Mariner
Who was lost at sea whilst on a voyage
from HIL,10 LIVERPOOL, in the year 1862
AGED 32 YEARS

Also of
RUTH
The dearly beloved daughter of above

And MARTHA, His wife
Who died March 31, 1898
Aged 37 years
"For awhile the tired body lies with feet towards morn."

Amd MARTHA CARY
Who died October 25, 1909
Aged 77 years”

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 14/12/2024

Mousehole (prn: ‘Mow-zuhl’). 📷 my own, 2017, from a proper Cessna. #aerialphotography #cornwall #harbours

Aerial photograph of Mowzul a harbour village on the southwest tip of Cornwall set in a steeply sided break in cliffs. The village is set around the beach which in turn is protected by stone piers, first built in the 14th century, rebuilt and extended several times.

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 14/12/2024

A couple of small “under ten” boats returning to the outer harbour at Mevagissey #cornwall. December 2023 📸 my own

Wide angle shot a harbour formed by two granite piers, the one to left having a white and black painted lighthouse. Inside the harbour are several brightly painted trawlers (fishing boats). Two small, single crewed ‘under 10m’ fishing boats are heading back into the harbour. The sea is azure blue. The village, inner harbour and surrounding fields of Mevagissey in the background. (C) www.statement-heritage.com

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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · 13/12/2024

The House of Windsor are famously great judges of character

Duke of York (briefly later Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson meet a little known mid 20th century maniac.

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