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Liz Rees

@lizarees.bsky.social
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Retired archivist & museums professional, based in Newcastle upon Tyne but still Welsh. Luxury views my own

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 14h
📸 InSide returns this October: a space to share documentary work, ask questions, talk through sticking points and swap news and opportunities. 📅 Monday 19th October 2026, 6–8pm 📍 Gosforth Civic Theatre 🔗 More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 12h
Online, so doesn't matter where you are!
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 12h
Always well-catered iirc (or maybe that was just the wine....)
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 15h
(Though I discover that handle doesn’t belong to them)
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 15h
At spectacular new @culturehousecc.bsky.social Sunderland to see Audrey Amiss exhibition back in her native town @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
Building interior with colourful screens and a modern spiral staircaseModern building interior with coloured panels in blue, pink and greenPages from four sketchbooks, one showing a pencil drawing and the others watercolour paintings
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 17h
The building is a warren though 😉
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 19h
Happy birthday @lizzybarchivist.bsky.social - hope you’re enjoying your week off!
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had one pair that was definitely wrong (after I'd had varifocals for a few years) - assistant ineptitude certainly to blame (though they did replace them)
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So I wonder if Gateshead Council would entertain a "request" to light the bridge for Show Racism the Red Card if someone paid....
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's a take (though a peculiarly US one)
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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📷 Show us Newcastle now. We’re inviting young people to photograph the city as they see it. No fancy kit needed, a phone is fine. Part of Under Development at Newcastle Contemporary Art (NCA), with selected work shown in an exhibition and newspaper. Submit: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/newc...
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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#NewcastleUponTyne #Gateshead This stained glass pane in All Saints Church, Newcastle upon Tyne on this day 6th September 2016. An image of the church surviving the Great Fire of Gateshead and Newcastle 6th October 1854. More @ flickr.com/photos/steve...
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just had an email from a certain well-known bookseller offering 10% off tickets, so maybe they're not actually SELLING FAST at all
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Archivists keep the receipts (& remember where they put them!)
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having done jury service for the first time last year I didn't understand this policy. While it's obviously expensive to administer, there's no shortage of jurors, whereas there are lots of empty courts, shortage of lawyers & inefficiency in bringing prisoners in
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He's the only one I've ever met - a lovely boy, and they don't bark!
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A friend has a Basenji, which also have pretty good ears!
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pornbot Julie seems to have grown an unfortunate beard @mariegardiner.bsky.social
Pornbot bio
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think he's getting his turn now!
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do they not have chilblains in the US? 🐝
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hugs from afar
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I used to have a cape (not a cloak) back in the day, and yes, bag was complicated
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ah....well that means the rest of them could have been even more effective going for the gold
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seems to me there's so many of them they could have split up and done both (though I admit I didn't quite follow what the keys were about)
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ok - someone (old)'s now said she's the Honey Monster
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The man's a living saint....
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a foreigner from South Wales I contend that swedes & turnips are two different things! The big purple & orange things are swedes, while turnips are smaller and white (ducks for cover)
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She's always struck me as a genuine person in spite of it all. Whatever did she see in Rupert?
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Having recently been refurbished and now open again to the public, Redhills had its official reopening on the evening of Thursday 24 September | Peter Sagar
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The past we inherit, the future we build: Redhills official opening
Having recently been refurbished and now open again to the public, Redhills had its official reopening on the evening of Thursday 24 September
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, the FoH staff were telling us the wait-time the day I was there was exceptional but reports suggest otherwise. Most people were patient but some (as always) unpleasant
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this link (shared by a friend) is outside the paywall www.thetimes.com/article/b21e...
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Bayeux Tapestry visitors turned away after chaotic afternoon queues
Long waiting times at the British Museum have resulted in people with tickets being rushed through the exhibition, while some did not make it in at all
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sadly I was there last week on the day of the 2-hour queue as reported in the Times at the weekend, but at least I did eventually get in, unlike some others
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 New post on Substack: my follow-up post on the unfairly maligned and stigmatised Meadow Well Estate in North Shields - ‘decent people living on a decent estate’. (Photographs Steve Conlon) municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-meadow...
Black and white photo of young children playing; semi-detached houses to rearBlack and white photo of young child on skateboard; semi-detached houses to rearBlack and white photo of young children playing; semi-detached houses to rearBlack and white photo of Nancy Peters opening new community centre
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Or maybe not....
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, when @melindahaunton.bsky.social says young people like her maybe she means toddlers
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Then we can probably be thankful GBBO doesn't have a public vote. She's much too performatively kooky (or cookie for this week) #ProudToBeOld
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But maybe someone will take Danni out and shoot her?
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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🏗️ We’re excited to announce the upcoming exhibition: Under Development Opening Oct 17 at Newcastle Contemporary Arts, it brings together the AmberSide Collection and Four Corners Archive to ask what happens when cities change? 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know his parents, y'know! He's very talented. (have you seen the Irish grandad sketch too?)
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nights certainly drawing in
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The corgis though.....
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was surprised they might have a cleaner (special or not) on board at all to be honest though I suppose they double as the people with the rubbish bags
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was on a train out of KX yesterday where they asked an @lner.co.uk cleaner to attend one of the 1st class carriages within 5 minutes of leaving #Ominous
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People seem to take their dogs everywhere. I went to the finish of the Great North Run the other day - 63,000 runners + friends, family & general spectators & people still think it's a nice walk out for their dog
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I suspect the original list only includes things you could watch in New York
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Loved Cuddy, but disliked Melmoth btw
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I haven't read the latest Elizabeth Strout yet (just Booker-nominated) but I've enjoyed her earlier books - & the new one's a one-off whereas the Olive Kitteridge & Lucy Barton books draw you into a series
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There was a waiter in this place. I just asked him to charge an amount with a 10% tip. He didn’t even have to give me a new bill (I’d noticed he did at another table but maybe there was some other mistake)
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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Annoying when restaurants automatically add service to the bill, but adding 13.5% is unconscionable #CreepingAmericanisation (no, I didn’t pay it)
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Dr. David Barber @pressphotoman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'The Misses Carrick' were daughters of the celebrated artist Thomas Heathfield Carrick (1802-1874). A Pressphotoman piece on Jane and Minnie Carrick's portrait and photography studio in 1860s and 1870s Newcastle on Tyne. pressphotoman.com/2026/09/21/t...
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