Reposted by SubfuscManchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Adventure playground, Moss Side; 1973. 043
Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 21/02/2026A puncture repair kit in a vending machine at the train station (Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg, Luxembourg). As if the free public transport wasn't good enough. 062
Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 19/12/2025For a modestly-sized seaside town Sheringham goes hard. It's also the town where they chased Nazi re-enactors out of their WWII weekend: www.lbc.co.uk/article/nazi... (and you get there on public transport).lbc.co.ukNazi re-enactors 'marching in unison wearing SS uniform' chased from 1940s festival | LBCA row broke out at a 1940s re-enactment festival when an angry crowd confronted a group dressed up as Nazi soldiers. 010
Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 11/07/2025I like how the map distinguishes between 'travelator' and 'proposed travelator' like the Oxford Road – St Peter's Square travelator was already in place for people who really needed to get to the Central Library in a hurry. 010
Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 29/05/2025A nice bit of presumably 1970's design. The book is Colin Ward and Anthony Fyson's Streetwork: The Exploding School written in capacity as the education officers for The Town & Country Planning Association. All very much of the era. 020
Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 22/11/2024Kids these days. Mine just made me sit through a Xmas present wishlist power point presentation. 020
Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 22/09/2024"We always picked our quarrels deliberately; only their consequences were inadvertent." Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums (trans. Michael Hoffman). 000
Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 04/07/2024Go read this. I've seen him talk and read his book (Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day). Incredible stuff on learning disabled folk in history that's a vital perspective on thier place in today's world. 041
