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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 13h

I need to shelve my 'things you have to live in London to see' list and get packing, but did two today: Bazalgette's pumping station at Crossness, and Nash's rotunda for Geo IV - once a party pad at the bottom of Regent’s St, then an artillery museum by Woolwich Barracks for 180 years. Now: nothing.

Tall, rusty iron arches on Corinthian columns with an iron octagonal lightwell in the background. Half of the hall for the giant pumps has been left unrestored, the other re-painted as the Victorians had it.

Full view of the painted iron octagonal frame within the lightwell, about the height of a house, in green, red and gold with complex patterns between its columns.

All fenced off, the body of the rotunda is initially obscured by the curator's building (1810, I think). Its roof is tented, like some of the peaks on Nash's Royal Pavilion in Brighton (where I used to work!).

Full view, with yellow brick curtain wall, small-paned arched windows and the tall tented roof. Directly opposite on the quiet back street is a large mid-century estate of flats.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 13h

My gut reaction to this image is the one I'm not going to say. However, two other things: Nigella makes Noel Fielding looked tanned, and, can she not have a word with him about putting eyeliner *inside* his eyes?! Such a rookie error for a goth of his age.

Noel Fielding standing over a seated Nigella Lawson, his hand on her shoulder. He's in a graphic black shirt, she a leopard print denim jacket. There's Union Jack bunting, so it isn't all goth.

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 17h

JULES VERNE'S TOMB (1907) The monument, created by sculptor Albert Roze, shows the writer as a #revenant or returner from beyond the grave, reaching towards the sky. Its face was modelled on his death mask. Image: Amiens, France. #WyrdWednesday

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's #WorldArchitectureDay and architecture brings me a great deal of joy so, in the absence of much time, here are some randomly chosen snaps of places that have rocked my boat in the last couple of years.

Publicly inaccessible Nelson Staircase at Somerset House. A bit like Spaghetti Junction, in Regency stairs.

Panelled passageway crammed with barristers' coats of arms (just the male ones, obviously) at the Middle Temple Inn (I think it was!).

Coventry's Tudor-style town hall, in the Christmas mist.

The Byzantine-style former Middlesex Hospital chapel in Fitzrovia, now a sometime exhibition venue.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mine: Help* Tommy The Look of Love/The Luxury Gap (same C90) Boy Once Upon A Time* Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Never Mind The Bllcks God's Own Medicine Anything *Now my least listened to album by this artist

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Big-name fundraising events on and around Halloween at the Cinema Museum, Elephant and Castle: cinemamuseum.org.uk/schedule/cat...

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Events – Page 2 – The Cinema Museum

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It doesn't take much with me at the moment, but this has really moved me.

Eric Morecambe listed as one of the writers of new series The Reluctant Vampire, adapted from his 1980s children's book. BBC 1 tonight at 6.40, a slot dear Eric would be very happy with I think.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't know how available tickets are now, as I jumped straight on it (rare, for me, re: West End theatre), but see this if you can: www.thenerve.news/p/review-the... Yes, it's a feel-good play about economics - and confirms Graham and Kinnear as two of the most talented and engaging ppl in drama.

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Review of the Week: The Standard of Living at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Uniquely talented at turning political history into lively drama, the playwright James Graham’s soulful, timely portrait of economist John Maynard Keynes explores what it means to lead ‘a good life’, ...

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh gawd - and I'm back on Lias...

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fifth and finest, in my opinion, though only by a hair's breadth. If you think you know what The Damned are from New Rose, or Eloise, try this: melodic psych, if it was a runaway train.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like the pointed use of the real name.

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter York's Culture Wars House Party is back for a new series - Hugo Drochon and Prof Joe Uscinski on the Great Replacement theory, and why "conspiracy theories are often for losers" 🎧 Full ep: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Victorian Gothic folly in the grounds of Park Hill, the Neoclassical mansion in Streatham where Henry Tate lived. It's still private but we also got to peek into the outbuilding that was his gallery, there. Now part of a house, which the grounds are actually full of, with this their communal garden!

Stone turret and pointed archway, surrounded by mature trees.

Arrow slit and small arched window cavity from the inside.

Boulders of Victorian fortified concrete (left) made up a giant rockery. A Georgian bridge (right) has a painted iron balustrade with a semicircular pattern.

More boulders, surrounded by ferns and trees (which, somehow, have grown out of the tops of some of them).

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I couldn't be more delighted with these little buggers, especially given how I got them. I've coveted the type for ages and lost one in a recent auction, so hit eBay. Both of these were there, separately, in the States - and both of my low bids were accepted. Best of all, once washed, they do match!

A pair of Victorian Staffordshire cats, white with black markings and gold collars. About 3.75" tall.

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Lambeth Green Party @lambethgreenparty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Labour sent a leaflet with an AI generated picture of the Minet Library & a bunch of false claims on the back. Campaigning is one thing – this is open contempt for residents. Labour were in the meeting where Greens cancelled the cuts Labour planned for our libraries. They know this leaflet is false.

Fact-check poster debunking a Labour campaign leaflet, showing the leaflet in the center with green arrows and handwritten-style labels marking claims as "true'ish", "weird claim", "fake petition" and "total lie", and a bold verdict reading "VERDICT: LABOUR LIED TO RESIDENTS".

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So much of our move to Macc is wrapped up in this train line - crossing everything!

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amazing. On Bridge St, one of my favourites when it opened, lovely to see it's still there.

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Dr Nazlin Bhimani @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some good news – a new library! Shakespeare’s Globe has opened a new public library and archive holding more than 6,000 books, original texts, recordings of productions and other treasures from the theatre’s history. www.thebookseller.com/news/shakesp... #Shakespeare #TheatreHistory #Renaissance

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

The theatre has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bryan not the only style icon in there.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here’s The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here’s The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, with "Breaking Bad" at number 1.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026

IN MINNESOTA.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

I'm very sorry everyone, I made *another* new game. MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 1️⃣5️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

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MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I still haven't decided whether I'm okay with the current Observer, but what a wonderful interview with Celia Birtwell: observer.co.uk/style/fashio... I love our Boomer and pre-Boom parents (you know, the good ones), we must treasure those we still have.

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‘I always told Hockney the truth’: the loves and life of ...

Celia Birtwell is one of Britain’s most influential fashion and textile designers. She was also a muse to David Hockney, sitting for the artist hundreds of times. For the first time since his death, s...

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And so I have left Sir John Soane's Museum. With huge sadness; I can't really believe I worked there, & I can't believe I no longer will. It's beautiful, pioneering, fascinating, gloomthy & staffed by truly lovely and stunningly well-informed ppl. But I can't urge you to go, there's already a queue.

A view of Soane's Museum area, or Plaister Room, now known as the Dome. Every surface is filled with ancient objects, or plaster casts of them, for the education of his architecture students. Sunlight through the ochre glass skylight illuminates one of a set of Roman cinerary urns, once owned by the Adam brothers. My copyright.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is The Last Leg over as a result of this? I'm sure it normally comes back in September. It has its precarious moments but it's a real institution, and loveable force for good.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And my brother usually does the book stall!

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Immersion (Colin Newman and Malka Spigel) at Rich Mix tonight. Reminiscent of Brighton days, and not just because of their videos shot there.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/09/2026

If you go down to 100 Wardour Street in Soho today, you can look through the windows at what is possibly a work of art, or possibly a rare chance for the public to come face to face with landlord tax reduction strategy. www.londoncentric.media/i/216000620/...

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And there it is. And they said Labour was infiltrated under Corbyn.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is fascinating on several levels - but ignore the example homes & there might be useful info for teashop fans who want some-time direct London access (as in, it'll take some time to get there). We're paying the extra 8 mins for the 'commute' from Macclesfield, which also gives Mcr & Stockport.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@helenhayes.bsky.social Dear Helen, As my MP, regardless of the location of our constituency, I ask you to stand up in parliament in support of the RNLI and demand Government action to protect its brave and caring volunteers from any form of abuse or thuggery. Many thanks, Jo Nightingale SE24***

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just because you're paranoid, Don't mean they're not after you

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know, but it's got three Damned folk in it. Showings: tickets.uk/cinema/films...

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Music Venue Trust @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Music Venue Trust is looking for a highly organised, capable and proactive Campaigns & Communications Support to support our Campaigns & Communications team.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love this album. It's kinda goth for people who've run out of hairspray.

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History Today @historytoday.com · 17/09/2026

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care? 🔓 This article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/head...

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Why Does Academic History Matter?

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Wind it in cats. You're not REM.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Elephant and Castle - currently campaigning to buy the building and continue.

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It was a really good interview. I'm shocked that she's gone.

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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is Billy the Cinema Museum cat. I visited the Museum to meet one of the founders, Martin Humphries, to write a feature for The World of Interiors about the campaign to buy the former workhouse where Charlie Chaplin once lived. Read my feature at www.worldofinteriors.com

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