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History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.

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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 21h
The roof of the Duomo di San Gerlando, Agrigento, built 1511-14 for #Woodensday
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 21h
Today's railway photograph: Agrigento Centrale. Opened in 1933, its construction involved building a tunnel under the town and the destruction of a significant part of the medieval town wall.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Harlech Castle, the gatehouse from within the castle.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: Stogumber, West Somerset Railway.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The chapel, Orford Castle.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: sunset clouds and OHLE wires at Roccapalumba-Alia, Sicily.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Flushwork on the porch of St Edmund's, Southwold.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: plinthed at Catania Centrale.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Currently reading this, and it's excellent. The PDF is free of charge until November 5th. If you have any interest in #folklore at all I'd encourage you to read this. #SpookySunday www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Lantanas.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: ornate old sign for the toilets on Ragusa station, Italy. The station was in the process of being modernized so it's probably no longer there, sadly.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Castello Maniace, Ortigia, Siracusa, Sicily. A very strange building, the entire castle interior divided up originally by 32 columns with a massive fireplace in each corner. Badly damaged by lightning striking the gunpowder magazine in 1703.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today's railway photograph (delayed due to operational difficulties): the old Minehead bay at Taunton.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
West Somerset morning.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: Barmouth Bridge.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
West Somerset sunset.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: Milano Centrale.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hooded face (one of the masons?) at St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: graffiti at Milano Porta Garibaldi.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The cactus is in flower! (Like three ball blokes peering over a wall 🤣) Anyone know the species and if it would survive outside in the UK? I'd like to have one in the garden...
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bristol Cathedral.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: 50 050 at Taunton.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: Zürich HB.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Light through the glass. A stained glass window in the clerestory of the Cattedrale Metropolitana della Natività di Maria Santissima, Siracusa, lights up one of the columns of the nave arcade. #StainedGlassSunday
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chisel marks on a column once part of the Temple of Diana (late 6th century BCE) incorporated into the north nave wall of the Norman cathedral at Ortigia, Siracusa. These marks have seen much.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wars, and rumours of wars. On what looks like an abandoned naval barracks on Ortigia, Siracusa, is this war memorial. Three men are named: Alberto Storaci Giuseppe Lanza Sebastiano Mazzarella
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
St Mabli's church, Llanvapley, Monmouthshire. #SteepleSaturday
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: Le Train Bleu, Paris Gare de Lyon, built for the 1900 Universal Exposition by the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée ( PLM ) railway company under the name Buffet de la Gare de Lyon. The President of the French Republic, Émile Loubet, inaugurated it on April 7, 1901.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As you are now, so once was I As I am now, so shall you be Chiesa di San Filippo Apostolo, Siracusa.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Milano Porta Garibaldi.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: our train on the ferry between Villa San Giovanni and Messina. I thought the loco would remain on the mainland but we had the same loco from Milan to Catania, where we caught a rail replacement bus (even in Italy!) to Siracusa.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
St Edmund's, Southwold, Suffolk.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today's railway photograph: Kölner Dom from Köln Hbf.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now that's what I call a company car (look in the background). Milan.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bench end at St Mary of the Assumption, Ufford, Suffolk. #Woodensday
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's railway photograph: Milan tram.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Orford Castle, Suffolk. My favourite.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's railway photograph: Mulhouse Ville.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's walk: sunlight through the leaves.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That incident at Fairford as it happened.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The bones of the dead, collected from the ground, have now at last been interred here. Chiesa di Santa Maria Incoronata, Milan. #MementoMoriMonday
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Preah Pithu, Angkor Thom. An atmospheric place away from the crowds.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's railway photograph: double bubble Voyagers at Taunton. (Unusual to see two Voyagers together on the Up.)
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've seen two of these, both on DVD after the event. And, honestly, I don't feel like I've missed anything. (Friday Night Lights and Band of Brothers if anyone's interested.)
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sunset in Rennes.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today's railway photograph: Paris Montparnasse.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
St Edmund's, Southwold. The flèche on the roof is from the 1867/8 restoration but is apparently a faithful copy of the original, which once held a Sanctus bell. A symphony in flint and stone. #SteepleSaturday
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Orford Castle from the River Ore.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today's railway photograph: Paddington.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Trivulzio Diatreta Cup, in the Archaeological Museum in Milan. Fourth century. Glass. The inscription is held clear of the bowl by filaments of glass, and reads: BIBE VIVAS MVLTIS ANNIS, 'Drink and live for many years'. #FindsFriday
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