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Helen Eccles

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Happiest curled up with a book or watching Test cricket

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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
@mjjjennings.bsky.social @newsukarchives.bsky.social Have you seen in today’s paper? Lisdoonvarna! I’ve popped a link to your recent piece in the comments today as it seems a shame not to link the two pieces www.thetimes.com/article/8e66...
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‘My wife doesn’t know I’m here’ — tales from the matchmaking festival
For those turned off by Tinder, there is always the annual festival in Lisdoonvarna that has been bringing couples together for more than a century
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@mjjjennings.bsky.social Second Lisdoonvarna reference this week - randomly popping up in a novel I was reading this afternoon. There’s surely going to be a third one…
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@newsukarchives.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social Have you seen this? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/a... A common theme, I missed this piece in the NYT in August but helpfully they flagged it in their Morning newsletter today and I thought of you! One for you too @marcaspland.bsky.social
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The Analog Allure of Photographers’ Contact Sheets
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Missed this as we were heading home after our holiday (and then once back I failed to open Bluesky app for ages) but a quick first look suggests this is another cracker from @newsarchive.bsky.social For fans of the Brutalist style it includes a great shot of Trellick Tower under construction
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Morning all. Photograph by Chris Steele Perkins, Middlesbrough, Back alley 1976.
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I’ve not come across this photograph of Norman Yardley and Hedley Verity before Another great post by @picturesporting.bsky.social #cricket #photography
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A super choice from Des to start the day…
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Everything Ed writes is a must-read and this piece is no exception. Thoughtful, evocative writing. The image at the end - no spoilers; read the piece! - will linger long in my memory @marcaspland.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social @athersmike.bsky.social Think this is a piece you’d each enjoy
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A superb photograph With a bottle of ale close at hand clearly thirsty work for ‘Bosser’ #cricket #photography
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Another terrific archive piece from @mjjjennings.bsky.social and the @newsukarchives.bsky.social team #photography #london #archives
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I live there, would like to have seen this. Ladies cricket at Greenfield, Saddleworth, 1902.
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This month’s brilliant archive piece by @mjjjennings.bsky.social and @newsukarchives.bsky.social team made me think of Tish Murtha’s wonderful photography Behind a pay wall but if you have a subscription this is such an enjoyable distraction from the rest of the news #photography #archives
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This month’s brilliant archive piece by @mjjjennings.bsky.social and @newsukarchives.bsky.social team made me think of Tish Murtha’s wonderful photography Behind a pay wall but if you have a subscription this is such an enjoyable distraction from the rest of the news #photography #archives
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
When Rodeo came to London. It must have been such eye-opening, incredible experience to be in crowd Another fascinating dip into the Times photographic archive…
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@marcaspland.bsky.social and @mjjjennings.bsky.social you might enjoy this if you haven’t come across it already
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“I’ve always understood one thing about sports photography: the importance of luck. You’ve got to get lucky” - Neil Leifer #sportsphotography #photography www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/a...
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The Greatest Sports Photo Ever Made Turns 60
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Caribbean Cricket Podcast @caribcricket.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨NEW CCP VIDEO🚨 We often get asked to explain the Caribbean Cricket Podcast origin story and how we made it become such an influential part of the West Indies ecosystem. Listen in as @mashstpaddy.bsky.social and @santokie.bsky.social tell it in their own unique style youtu.be/QejPaVyGYq4
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How Caribbean Cricket Podcast changed the game
YouTube video by Caribbean Cricket Podcast
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Not perhaps as well known as others working in the field, Mik’s photography - inspired by and made possible by deep connections within his local community - was always full of humanity and often deeply moving and poignant #photography #northeast
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections. I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
An autumnal collection of nature finds including shells, pebbles, feathers, seedheads and lichenA large mounted print of floral finds from my garden in MayFloral finds from my garden during a very mild spell in February 2019Garden and common hedgerow floral finds in Norfolk in September 2021
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thanks to prompt dispatch by The Times bookshop this gem of a book - featuring one of my favourite Stanley Devon photographs - has arrived ahead of its official publication date next week It’s a triumph! Huge congratulations due to @mjjjennings.bsky.social and the @newsukarchives.bsky.social team
Front cover of a new photography book based on black and white photographs from The Times archive. The cover has a photograph of a group of young people jumping off one of the bridges in London on a summer’s day; a double decker bus is in the background. A black and white photograph taken by Stanley Devon while he was covering the Oval Test match in 1953. The scene shows a pair of boys at the top of a lamppost watching the cricket from a nearby street. Their bikes are in the foreground and behind them is a large residential property with various people peering out of the window - also watching the cricket
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
@desdelboy.bsky.social a new book you might enjoy, Des
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
@marcaspland.bsky.social @athersmike.bsky.social Hope you’re both able to get your hands on a copy of this gem. @mjjjennings.bsky.social has, unsurprisingly, done a brilliant job bringing this into being
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thanks to prompt dispatch by The Times bookshop this gem of a book - featuring one of my favourite Stanley Devon photographs - has arrived ahead of its official publication date next week It’s a triumph! Huge congratulations due to @mjjjennings.bsky.social and the @newsukarchives.bsky.social team
Front cover of a new photography book based on black and white photographs from The Times archive. The cover has a photograph of a group of young people jumping off one of the bridges in London on a summer’s day; a double decker bus is in the background. A black and white photograph taken by Stanley Devon while he was covering the Oval Test match in 1953. The scene shows a pair of boys at the top of a lamppost watching the cricket from a nearby street. Their bikes are in the foreground and behind them is a large residential property with various people peering out of the window - also watching the cricket
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A lovely interview, featuring a quite brilliant - moving and compelling - portrait of Freddie by @marcaspland.bsky.social #cricket #photography #sportsphotography
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A lovely interview, featuring a quite brilliant - moving and compelling - portrait of Freddie by @marcaspland.bsky.social #cricket #photography #sportsphotography
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’ve spent time this weekend reading ‘Who wants normal?’ by @francesryan.bsky.social It’s brilliant, necessary and funny in just the right places Grab a copy if you can - and it’s not just for disabled people but hugely insightful for those who want to be allies to us #books #disability
A Kindle lying on a cream, cabled blanket. The kindle is showing the black and white front cover - all text - of Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’ve spent time this weekend reading ‘Who wants normal?’ by @francesryan.bsky.social It’s brilliant, necessary and funny in just the right places Grab a copy if you can - and it’s not just for disabled people but hugely insightful for those who want to be allies to us #books #disability
A Kindle lying on a cream, cabled blanket. The kindle is showing the black and white front cover - all text - of Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Morning all. North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire, 1970s. Photographer Don McPhee.
Morning all.

North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire, 1970s. 
Photographer Don McPhee.
Black and white image of an elderly couple sat dozing on seats on the pier.
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My copy of @francesryan.bsky.social new, much-needed, book arrived on my Kindle overnight and I can’t wait to dig into it I’m sure life would have been a little easier and maybe happier if a book like this had existed when I was a young woman - thank you so much, Frances for writing it
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Really looking forward to this and hoping it sells like hot cakes #photography #history
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 09/04/2025
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Surface Pattern Design & Illustration by Manchester based designer Gail Myerscough. Contemporary design meets mid century style. Contact for art licensing, commissions & collaboration enquiries.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“The world around you will try to tell you that your life isn’t worth as much as others – don’t believe them.” For this week’s second extract from Who Wants Normal?, I’m so happy to share “wise words” of 26 brilliant well known disabled women. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘A weakness can become your biggest strength’ – wise words from 26 brilliant disabled women
In this second extract from Frances Ryan’s new book, actors, politicians, athletes and models offer their advice on living with physical and mental health conditions
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In @timessport.bsky.social today a piece on Tom Banton’s terrific knock, Somerset’s tactics and for those of us who lived every painful moment of cricket in the ‘90s a chance to remember the - pleasing no-one - ‘Hick declaration’ in 1995 #cricket www.thetimes.com/article/fe38...
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Captains must put team before milestones — but I went too far
Somerset paid price for prioritising Tom Banton’s records over victory against Worcestershire. For a team who have never won the County Championship, the lost points could prove costly
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Parents of disabled teenagers! I’ve got a very limited number of bookplates (signed stickers you can put in your copy) and limited edition postcards left. Email me (info on bio) with your address and who to dedicate it to and I’d be happy to post it out. First come first serve!
A Who Wants Normal postcard stands next to the book. Sorry for brevity - limited spoons!
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In @timessport.bsky.social today a piece on Tom Banton’s terrific knock, Somerset’s tactics and for those of us who lived every painful moment of cricket in the ‘90s a chance to remember the - pleasing no-one - ‘Hick declaration’ in 1995 #cricket www.thetimes.com/article/fe38...
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Captains must put team before milestones — but I went too far
Somerset paid price for prioritising Tom Banton’s records over victory against Worcestershire. For a team who have never won the County Championship, the lost points could prove costly
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If you see this, post a beach photo from your phone
A colour photograph of South Shields beach; at the forefront of the image is the concrete promenade and then an expanse of golden sand. In the distance the North Sea. To the left is a red lighthouse and further in the distance to the left is the outline of Tynemouth and Tynemouth priority. The sky is clear, bright blue
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“We are allowed to talk about our disabled bodies only if and when we have managed to make them appear like “normal” ones.” @francesryan.bsky.social writing about her soon to be released (and much-needed) book Looking forward to my copy arriving and pressing copies into hands of family & friends
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Morning all. Tea in Brighton 1960. Photographer Bruce Davidson.
Morning all.

Tea in Brighton 1960. Photographer Bruce Davidson.
From the book England/Scotland this black and white image shows a woman holding a bottle of milk by a car on the seafront, the boot of the car is open and a teapot and three cups are set up in there. To the right of the image is another two women and a man with a large money bag is he possibly a milkman or a parking attendant?
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Battersea Power Station in 1936 by Bill Brandt from his famous series of night photographs of London. Inspired by Brassaï's night photos of Paris, this is a masterpiece.
Two chimneys with smoke and the top of a gasometer in silhouette against a night sky
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
More examples of how beautiful Brutalist architecture is in this article. Nuclear reactor or medieval castle? Brutal Welsh architecture. A new title in Simon Phipps’ bestselling brutalist series. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #womensart
Collages created to resemble three birds in flight flying to the left with geometric patterned paper bodies and wings, all on a white surfsce
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Morning all. Photograph by Elliott Erwitt, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, 1969 from his book Kolor.
Morning all.

Photograph by  Elliott Erwitt, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, 1969 from his book Kolor.

The image is a street photograph taken by Elliott Erwitt in Newcastle, England, in 1969. It captures two children on a street with shipyard cranes in the background. 
The street is typical of the area with terraced buildings on both sides.
The two children are playing and laughing in front of the camera one is holding a red ball.
Elliott Erwitt, known for his street photography and his ability to capture candid moments with humor and irony
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
@mjjjennings.bsky.social this made me laugh. It’s almost enough to make me re-assess my interest in the Brutalist style!
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Morning all. Photograph by Don Tonge, Child and Closed Carousel Bolton 1970s.
Morning all.

Photograph by Don Tonge, Child and Closed Carousel Bolton 1970s.

Black and white image of a little girl looking through a torn canvas at a closed carousel in Bolton, Lancashire, England 1976, to the girls left is another tear in the canvas and the heads of two of the rides ‘horses’ are visible and appear to be looking at the girl. The girl in the photo is the daughter of the photographer. Bolton, Lancashire, England
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Making haste through New York, 1953 by Vivian Maier, prolific US street photographer #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a street scene in which two women walk to the right past a shop window with an umbrella against wind and rain, the street has high buildings
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Morning all Photographer Colin Jones, County Durham, England 1963.
Morning all 

Photographer Colin Jones, County Durham, England 1963.

A woman and a pram are walking along a paved path next to a road, bordered by concrete walls. The scene is from Sunderland, a town in County Durham, England in 1963. Photographer Colin Jones, a photojournalist known for documenting British social history. 
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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Good morning, Helen @heleneccles.bsky.social & thanks so much for "spreading the word" to Sathnam @sathnam.bsky.social too. Here's one that I hope you'll both like: this is ""The Mill" by Phyllis Bray from 1933. It depicts a view on the Thames & Severn canal at Chalford in Gloucestershire.
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
@sathnam.bsky.social if you’re still looking for suggestions for lovely, more cheery, accounts to follow, I recommend @eastlondongroup.bsky.social whose posts are always a tonic
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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
ECB accused of ‘limiting opportunities’ for disabled cricketers at elite level Me for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
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ECB accused of ‘limiting opportunities’ for disabled cricketers at elite level
New pan-disability team puts three England sides into one and could favour the most able, say players
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“At the end of the net, Lever looked at me, didn’t say much, but nodded ever so slight as if to say: ‘you’ll do’” A heartfelt, moving tribute to Peter Lever in @timessport.bsky.social today by @athersmike.bsky.social with really lovely reader memories btl #cricket www.thetimes.com/article/2b17...
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Farewell Peter Lever, your tough love taught me not to fear pace
Former Lancs bowler and coach had huge influence on my development, pitting me against best quicks and bellowing at me on long runs – followed by bacon sandwiches
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