Henry Long 🐦

London | parks | architecture | urban geography | churches | cricket | interesting and unusual postboxes.

[Ashley Truluck CB CBE @Truluck_Wilts]

#QueenElizabeth ‘s ‘married quarter’ in #Malta - when she was a young Naval officer’s wife with few responsibilities- said to be her happiest time. Now sadly dilapidated but due to be renovated and hopefully opened to the public. #QE2 #Royalty #RoyalFamily

[Henry Long 🐦 @HenryLong9]

@Lee_flaneur Spital Yard E1

[Henry Long 🐦 @HenryLong9]

The birthplace of Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley. #WindowsonWednesday #Methodism

[Emma Yeomans @Effy_Yeomans]

An effigy of Paula Vennells, wearing an envelope addressed to HMP Lewes, is pulled through the streets by people in Justice For Postmasters t-shirts. It will be blown up later tonight #LewesBonfire

[Henry Long 🐦 @HenryLong9]

Pulpit and tester (sounding board) at St Mary Abchurch. #WoodenWednesday

[Henry Long 🐦 @HenryLong9]

Poor box, St Mary Abchurch. #WoodenWednesday

[Henry Long 🐦 @HenryLong9]

Spitalfields, with a Morris Minor. #WindowsonWednesday

[Jon Attenborough @JonAttenborough]

I am totally 100% against the public sale of fireworks in shops and online

🦮 Sam is terrified of them every year. It’s not just one night either, it goes on for days

[The Tower of London @TowerOfLondon]

#OnThisDay in 1605 Guy Fawkes was discovered in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with a fuse, a lamp, a box of matches and 36 barrels of gunpowder 💥

🗝️ Fawkes was brought to the Tower of London, imprisoned and interrogated in the Council Chamber of the King’s House 📷

[WestminsterCathedral @WestminsterCath]

We are delighted to share the news that, earlier today, Royal Mail launched 5 UK cathedrals by artist Judy Joel, as their stamp collection for Christmas 2024. Included in these edifices is Westminster Cathedral, representing London and the Roman Catholic Church in this country.

[The Tower of London @TowerOfLondon]

Look who's back in the moat! 🐴 Today the @OpCentaur Shire horses were at the Tower of London roughing up the soil to prepare it for sowing seeds 🌱

[Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk]

'In Loving Memory of a Dear Boy
DANGER UNSAFE KEEP AWAY
Loved, & Never Forgotten
- Mother'

A memorial in Ely Cemetery, photographed in the winter of 2009.

'Futility', by Wilfred Owen, who died #OTD 4 November 1918:

'Move him into the sun:
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds:
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?'

I removed the plastic warning tape, and underneath found the full inscription:

'In loving memory of a Dear Boy
Charles Henry Newman
Killed in France September 12 1917
aged 28 Years.
Dearly Loved & Never Forgotten
- Mother'

Charles Newman was a Private in the 2/4th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. He was the son of Annie Fisher, formerly Annie Newman, of 48 Fore Hill Ely, and the late Joseph Newman. Charles was killed during the Third Battle of Ypres near the small town of Passchendaele. He's buried in the cemetery at Mendinghem, north-west of Ypres. He's remembered on the City of Ely war memorial, and also remembered here in the Ely City Cemetery: loved, and never forgotten.

#Remembrance #MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday

[Stefan Boscia @Stefan_Boscia]

Someone around Greenwich is having a very bad day today

[Helen @ohnoitshelen]

This posh woman in front of me at Costa bought brown toast and asked the server if they had any “honey bee extract”, and he replied “do you mean honey” and she went “if that’s all you have” and she actually saw me roll my eyes so Monday is off to a good start

[WG RumblePants @WG_RumblePants]

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Bolton Abbey CC in Yorkshire

[Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor]

More traditional varieties of apples from London Fields Schoolyard Market this morning...

[Jock McVicar 📷 @volksrat23]

Happy #PostboxSaturday here's one in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.
#fujifilm #x100f

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

Dear Twitter, you’re threatening to suspend services to @StBartholomews if we don’t add a birth date, but you won’t allow us to go back before 1905. What do we do if our “birth date” is 1123?