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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 16h

Love this by @morwennaferrier.bsky.social on the joy of butter (tho not sure about the sweet flavoured ones). I adore butter, as ever the French do it better, their supermarket selections are first class. I get through tonnes of of President, treat it like cheese www.theguardian.com/food/2026/oc...

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The butter boom – how the world fell back in love with the glorious golden spread

It’s being sculpted for fashion parties, collected by tourists and hoarded in freezers. There are even entire shops devoted to it. What’s behind the revival of the much-maligned foodstuff?

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 15h

From the foreshore yesterday, a chunk of coral - beautiful organic material. Found on a part of the Thames heavily associated with 18th/19thC ship building/ship breaking, this coral would have been brought in from tropical waters, used as ballast on ships, loaded into the hull to control stability.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 05/10/2026

I’m waiting for my annual flu vaccine and another customer at the pharmacy is complaining that on a recent visit he handed a £20 note to a woman standing by the counter thinking she was a member of staff. Turns out she wasn’t. More true crime stories as I encounter them.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another hire bike, this one belonging to Forest (it’s been reported by numerous people but the company have yet to come & remove it) dumped on the foreshore under Southwark Bridge. Will be covered up as the tide rolls back in. The psychology of people who think it’s ok to throw these into the river.

Forest hire bike lying tossed and abandoned on the Thames Foreshore under Southwark Bridge. Cannon Street Bridge in the distance.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sassy snake A rather cheeky red-crested serpent on a mid 4th century AD #Roman mosaic floor Found in Durngate Street, Dorchester in 1905, he's now safely housed in Dorset Museum 📷 Sept 2026 #MosaicMonday

A crested red and white checkered snake facing right on a Roman mosaic floor

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Back on the foreshore, wash from a passing Thames Clipper nearly knocked me off my feet but also kindly deposited a lovely piece of worked bone waste. The small regular holes are evidence this was used for bead making, perhaps by the Paternosters, located nearby, who once made beads for rosaries.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To those pointing out that the groom in the photo (see previous post) is not wearing socks, my son in law went sockless on his wedding day. But then he’s French and French guys can get away with most things and still look good.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some people are so passagg. A POX on the bloke in blue who wouldn’t even wait five seconds for the photographer to take this shot of the happy couple without him stomping into view & ruining things. Mind you, doing wedding pics on Millennium Bridge is always going to be a bit fraught #London

Bride and groom posing on Millennium Bridge this lunchtime, St Paul’s in the background. A man in blue walks into the precious shot of the couple in each other’s arms and spoils it…

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy 4th Birthday to Didier the Doodle, you absolute floofen unit 💙 🦴

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ll be reading from my latest poetry collection p a u s e. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social alongside some wonderful colleagues at Poetry@Leeds showcase at Ilkley Literature Festival Sunday 11 October 3PM www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/events/56-po...

book cover- brown with a blue river running through it and the words- pause, J. R. Carpenter, Broken Sleep Books

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s the end of September. Haven’t had much time for #mudlarking this month but here are nine sweet finds spotted over the last few weeks. From the top, left to right: • corner piece from a Medieval Penn tile featuring fleur-de-lis pattern ⚜️ • limestone marble, possibly from Salzburg 17th/18thC 1/

Nine finds from September on the Thames Foreshore. From the top, left to right - a corner of a medieval floor tile showing a fleur-de-lis pattern, a limestone marble from Salzburg (late 17th/18thC), a clay pipe bowl showing a 16thC man dressed in headgear from that era, the pipe made by Gambier of Paris.
Middle row - a green glass duck, a handful of handmade 14th to 18thC dress pins, a blue on white Transferware sherd showing a waterman in a boat.
Bottom row - a child’s lead toy car toy, a sherd of blue & manganese Westerwald grey stoneware pottery, a piece of black flint showing a fossilised bivalve shell.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Final weekend of our September mudlarking exhibitions for Totally Thames Festival. Today & tomorrow (Sat 26th/Sun 27th Sept) Mudlarks will be exhibiting their favourite finds at London Museum Docklands (nearest station is Canary Wharf) from 10-5pm, free entry. Lectures & Guided Walking Tour too.

Flyer advertising this weekend’s (Sat 26th Sept/Sun 27th Sept) mudlarking exhibitions at London Museum, Docklands.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jesus Christ, these pathetic bastards, genuinely proud of outsourcing their intelligence and unable to articulate what, if anything, we are supposed to be gaining in exchange

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Splendid evening at Goldsmiths’ Hall, City of London last night, first week of Goldsmiths’ Fair 2026. Treated myself to a beautiful brooch by mudlark & jeweller Liz Willis. Liz has a special Creative permit from the PLA allowing her to use foreshore found items of low value in her jewellery.

Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane, City of London. People are queueing outside the building ready for this year’s Goldsmiths’ Fair, 2026.

Goldsmiths’ Fair 2026 catalogue seen posed in my hand outside the building.

The fantastic ceiling and chandelier in the main exhibition room at Goldsmiths’ Hall featuring gold multi-coloured red and green panels, lavishly decorated.

Silver brooch decorated with green silk thread and a 14th-18th century pin from the River Thames, handmade by Mudlark and jeweller Liz Willis.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve written to my MP, the Home Secretary and the PM this morning demanding that the government take action to defend the RNLI and clamp down on these far-right “activists”, who need to be arrested and charged for the criminal offences in this thread alone, as well as others in recent weeks.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.

It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.

We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.

• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This has made me sad & angry. The independent businesses at Gabriel’s Wharf on the Southbank will be closing up for the last time this Sunday 27th Sept, efforts to save them have come to nothing. Owners Coin Street say the site will be demolished & ‘regenerated.’ Hmm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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South Bank's Gabriel's Wharf traders face final weeks

Businesses at Gabriel's Wharf on London's South Bank are entering their final weeks at the site.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

14thC gold seal ring belonging to the powerful Matilda of Lancaster, found by detectorists. Stunning to find something like this that’s been owned by a woman, most similar rings belonged to powerful men. But surprised this wonderful treasure has been auctioned off 😔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Medieval ring found by Suffolk detectorists to be auctioned

The ring may have belonged to a woman who became the canoness of a priory in the 14th Century.

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Illuminated River @illuminatedriver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Various dates are still available from October to December 2026, including two additional courses specifically tailored for mobile phone photography. Learn more:

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Photography Courses

At 3.2 miles long, Illuminated River is the world's longest public art commission, uniting nine central London bridges in a single lighting artwork

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Illuminated River @illuminatedriver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Illuminated River Photography Courses, led by award-winning photographer Nigel Wilson, start tomorrow, 23 September. If you're looking to enhance your photography skills, don't miss out.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you’re in the City of London today, Thames Festival month continues with a fabulous free mudlarking exhibition in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral, 10-5pm today & tomorrow, 19th/20th Sept. I won’t be exhibiting this weekend but many fellow mudlarking friends will be showing their finds. Do come!

Flyer advertising our Hands on History mudlarking exhibition at St Paul’s Cathedral today & tomorrow, 19th/20th Sept (in the crypt) - free entry, 10-5pm.

Further detail of this weekend’s mudlarking exhibition, Saturday & Sunday, in St Paul’s Cathedral - 10-5pm, free entry, part of Thames Festival month.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘Tenko and Coronation Street actress Stephanie Cole dies aged 84.’ I grew up watching her in the excellent Tenko and she was bluddy brilliant as the bossy Carolyn in Radio 4s Cabin Pressure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Stephanie Cole: Coronation Street and Doc Martin actress dies aged 84

She was best known for playing Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama Tenko.

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Port of London Authority @londonportauth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is currently a pod of pilot whales near Gravesend. We are working with marine mammal experts at British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and doing all we can to keep them safe while they are with us. Read our full statement ➡️ pla.co.uk/pilot-whales...

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fragments of people's lives, washed up on the beach.

Miscellaneous beach finds laid out on a black background. Among the colourful finds featured are false nails, finger prickers, toy soldiers, toy animals, fake flowers and foliage, a plastic nose, Lego, a soy sauce fish and a covid test kit.

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I once spent a day with Bonnie Greer as part of a discussion panel. I was hugely impressed by her openness to ideas and the quality of her arguments while standing by what she believed in. But what I remember most was her tremendous warmth to me - someone she had never met before.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy birthday Peter Falk, you beautiful rumpled delight

Peter Falk, hand on cheek, sly look to camera

Peter Falk, glasses on, reclining on couch, drawing

Peter Falk, older, grey haired, still got it, in front of one of his own drawings of his younger self as Columbo

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a piece of Lambeth 17th/18thC pottery history, found yesterday. Large chunk of brick from a kiln, the moss green/brown glaze as a result of extremely high temperatures melting the silica within the stone. Kilns often exploded which is why we find this material dumped in the Thames #mudlark

Part of an 17th/18thC kiln brick from a nearby pottery, seen posed on the Thames Foreshore in my gloved hand. The brick is covered in a mossy green & brown glassy glaze, as a result of hot temperatures melting the silica within it.

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A helpful AI summary when you put a name in to google...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From Saturday on the Foreshore, my first tobacco clay pipe bowl from Maison Gambier in Paris. Thank you to @germanderspeedwell.bsky.social for help with the ID. Jean Gambier founded the firm in Givet, Ardennes area of N France in 1780. His son Joseph revolutionised the family clay pipe business 1/

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sweet little Thames Waterman sherd, blue on white 19th century Transferware pottery, found on the foreshore this morning.

Blue on white Transferware sherd found on the foreshore this morning, seen in my gloved hand. The sherd is 19thC and shows a Waterman about to cross the river.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

From this morning’s trip to the foreshore - turrets and towers, bridges with their abutments, stays and cables, blue & white sky, silver river Thames.

Chelsea bridge, early morning. Blue & white sky, silver river Thames. The towers of Battersea Power station visible on the south bank.

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Off to Lords for a proud mum moment - watching my daughter umpire there at the home of cricket 🏏

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The dog has made short work of his latest toy.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Statement from the RNLI Chief Executive, Peter Sparkes, beautifully written, 'Courage is the RNLI’s currency; dependable, loyal, service to others and our nations is our hallmark': rnli.org/news-and-med...

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Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes

Watch a video message from the RNLI's Chief Executive Peter Sparkes on our work in the Channel and our commitment to save lives

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/09/2026

With the RNLI amid a "traitor" hate campaign against the charity over migrants rescue, we reflect again on the bravery of the volunteers who selflessly go out to sea in all weather to save human life.

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RNLI Lifeboat Day Highlights and Cromer Coastline Safety

RNLI lifeboat launches across the UK were showcased at Cromer Lifeboat Day, highlighting water safety and coastguard teamwork.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Had to take my mother to A&E today, all ok now. In the next cubicle to us was a man who’d been told he’d have to stay in for a few days for treatment. He was distraught as he had a dog at home & no one he trusted to look after it. Made me wonder if there are any animal charities who can help?

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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My sister reports this sign going up in her village, and I think we should adopt these as a new national campaign.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thank you to all who came to the Hands on History mudlarking exhibition & symposium this weekend at the Guildhall. So many visitors enjoyed our finds and a fantastic array of speakers - archaeologists, historians & Mudlarks. And always a joy to stroll through the quiet streets of the City en route.

St Mary Aldermary, City of London, early in the morning. Peaceful & silent.

St Mary le Bow in Cheapside, silent & serene on an early Saturday morning.

St Lawrence Jewry, Guildhall, City of London, seen under crisp & clear blue skies on a Saturday morning.

The Guildhall, City of London, formerly the site of the Roman amphitheatre. Seen under crisp and clear blue skies.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Blue sky day in the City of London. Come & join us for the first Hands in History mudlarking exhibition of September this weekend, 5th & 6th Sept, free entry, 10-4pm. Also our mudlarking symposium, which is sold out.

Guildhall, City of London, blue sky day. Come and join us this weekend for our Hands on History mudlarking exhibition, 10-4pm, admission free. Also our mudlarking symposium, which is sold out.

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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Haven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries

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Comparing the Bayeux and Reading tapestries

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nice sherd of cobalt blue & manganese Westerwald pottery from the foreshore yesterday. 17thC/18thC salt-glazed greyish stoneware, originating from the Rhineland and used for ale, wine, spirits. There are some beautiful complete examples in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Sherd of cobalt blue & manganese Westerwald, a grey salt-glazed stoneware originating from the Rhineland, seen in my gloved hand on the Thames Foreshore.

Complete examples of Westerwald stoneware as seen in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Joe Brown @joebrownlondon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#OnThisDay 160 years ago Cannon Street was opened by the SER. The magnificent roof photographed here in 1955 sustained wartime damage and was demolished 1958-59, although the towers remain today. Images from an excellent record of the history here: buff.ly/jtFfuqk

1955 photo taken from track level stood on Cannon Street railway bridge looking north at the barrel vaulted trainshed and twin towers of the terminus

Depiction of the interior of Cannon Street trainshed in steam days looking south from a high vantage point along the platforms towards the end of the trainshed.

Depiction of Cannon Street station and the railway bridge from a position on the south bank slightly downstream of the bridge with sailing boats, rafts, and row boats on The Thames and St Paul's in the background

Photo taken from on top of Cannon Street trainshed roof looking down onto the approach tracks crossing The Thames.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I am on the 11.49 SW train to Kingston. Our guard, who I think must be Jean Dujardin in disguise, has just announced the destinations in the sexiest French accent ever. I might now stay on the train till Waterloo.

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