Christopher Howse

Writer for the Telegraph. Author of Soho in the Eighties and The Train in Spain.

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Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74

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@ricster71 The security cameras and so on? Yes. But the seats for passengers are welcome.

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Railway Corinthian: the iron columns and capitals of Victoria Station for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, by Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan, I suppose.

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@northumbriana Oh, thank you. Made by St Pancras Ironworks, manufacturers of this sunny self-fastening coal plate #opercula No 1182

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No 1 High Street in Leominster, Herefordshire, has a curious ground-floor bow to the side, with stone pillars. It was once open to the air for market trading. The main 17th-century building has 18th-century windows and an early 19th-century shopfront. Listed Grade II.

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@BeardyHowse @NowtofTown Appreciated your piece on Balon in @OldieMagazine
https://t.co/SAkhHI0V0x

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@NowtofTown Thank you. The people round Norman Balon (from left) are Bobby Hunt, Jeffrey Bernard, Graham Mason, Ron Lucas and me.

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@Rikkhep Oh, thank you. It has put up with the drought on its ballasty bed, so no wonder it has turned red.

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Yes, what are these red-leaved plants? They're very striking.

[Adam Cairns @adamcairnspoet]

Hereford station going wild today. Lovely wild flowers between the tracks #amtravelling #herefordshire #wildflowers

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Gothick Venetian windows and a variety of others in the early 18th century Pinsley House, 29 Broad Street, Leominster, Herefordshire. Listed Grade II.

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Ins and outs of Hereford. No 9 Castle Street comes right out to the pavement. Nos 10 and 11 are set far back. All early 19th century, with "Waterloo" verandas, and listed Grade II*.

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@ladygreenkirtle It is. Now corrected. Thanks.

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Tulip mania in Broad Street, Leominster, Herefordshire: a Dutch themed pillar box topper and – is that a newly planted tulip tree?

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The chimneys of Hereford station from the footbridge.

[Isabel Mathias @IsabelMathiasPR]

@BeardyHowse I have the original job description somewhere, it was like "the hermit must jump out and scare visitors".

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Penalty for not wearing a name badge.

[Emma Woolf @EJWoolf]

Doesn't she have a name 🙄

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@IanJ21289455 @NowtofTown I'm in that photo.

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@Oberon48 Yes, Grade II. But that doesn’t keep the rain out.

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Layer cake: Victorian fake timber-framing over 18th-century stonework encasing an interior from the early 17th century at the John Gwynne James Memorial Home for Nurses in Bridge Street, Hereford.

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Vacancy for Ornamental Hermit.

[Isabel Mathias @IsabelMathiasPR]

#OTD Sir Richard Hill 2nd baronet was born in 1732 at Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire. He created @TheFollies a historic parkland with redwoods & monkey puzzle trees. There are names like Raven's Shelf, Neptune's Whim, & a grotto with a resident hermit. #Shropshire

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@RCrawford67322 How do you feel about this Lelys Climax coal plate in Hans Place, SW1?
Just follow the hashtag #opercula

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Gustav Holst's coal plate outside the house in Thaxted to which he moved in 1917. Ashton and Green doyley pattern. #opercula No 1425

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Rare square Hayward Brothers No1B coal plate, Hereford #opercula 1426