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[Britain's Lost & Living Pubs @Britains___Pubs]

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[ITV Racing @itvracing]

Not long now 🗓️✨

Retweet if you're excited for #CheltenhamFestival 😆🔁

[Pink Floyd 💎 @Just_pinkfloyd]

Shine on you crazy diamond

[Sandy De Born @SandyDeBorn]

Medieval ensemble from Ely (parts of the old Bishop’s palace, Prior Crauden’s chapel and the cathedral’s west tower) #medievalMonday

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

The Book Boat Women of the Mississippi 1904
In 1904, when river towns along the Mississippi had little access to schools or libraries, a small group of women brought knowledge to the water. They were known as the Book Boat Women educators, widows, and dreamers who turned old barges into floating libraries that drifted from town to town, delivering books, newspapers, and hope to riverside families.
One of them, Eleanor Finch, a former schoolteacher from Iowa, spent her savings on a decommissioned cargo barge. She and two friends painted it white, filled it with donated books, and christened it The Knowledge Belle. They loaded it with shelves, kerosene lamps, and a hand-cranked printing press that produced small pamphlets of local poetry and news.
As the Book Boat drifted downstream, children would run to the shore, shouting, "The library’s here!" Farmers traded apples, quilts, or cornmeal for borrowed books. In a time when literacy was rare in rural America, the women taught reading lessons right on deck often by lantern light as river fog curled around the hull.
During one harsh winter, when the river froze, Eleanor refused to stop. She walked miles across icy banks carrying sacks of books on her back, ensuring no child missed their reading. "The river", she said, "only sleeps. The stories do not".
By the 1910s, their floating library inspired copycat boats in Minnesota and Illinois, spreading learning through the heartland. The Book Boat Women proved that education could travel even on restless waters.

[Veronica in the Fens 🧚🏼‍♀️ My Heart in Nature @VeronicaJoPo]

I love my collaboration with @Ely_Cathedral for their Annual wall Calendar 🥰
This is 2026 🙏🏻 a brilliant Christmas present 🎁
My Shop:
https://t.co/8MwbQJzBub

[UK Back in the Day @UKBackintheDay2]

Pulp
- Common People

Top of the Pops, 1995

[Ruthie G 🌸 @RuthieGenie]

Happy #postboxsaturday from St Albans

[Chepstow Racecourse @Chepstow_Racing]

Fantastic to welcome Native River back to Chepstow!

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October."

—Virginia Woolf

[Racing TV @RacingTV]

The mighty Beef Or Salmon at the age of 29

@IrishNatStud | 🥩 🍣

[Road To Cheltenham @RoadCheltenham]

😍 GALVIN looking magnificent and enjoying his retirement - have a real soft spot for this former Cheltenham Festival winner!

🌟 Rated 168 at the peak of his powers, he was a Grade 1 winner, finished fourth in a Gold Cup and placed in a Grand National.

(📷: @Ryananthonybird)

[Andrew Scott Photography @lincolninphoto]

Lincoln in black and white #blackandwhitephoto #thephotohour

[Sandy De Born @SandyDeBorn]

Pretty manor house in Shepreth, Cambs - Docwra’s Manor #thursgate

[Caroline Cook @horseart1]

Another great 2 miler. Memories of Moscow Flyer
#NationalRacehorseWeek

[Caroline Cook @horseart1]

Remembering Dancing Brave
#NationalRacehorseWeek

[Caroline Cook @horseart1]

BANK HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY
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[Veronica in the Fens 🧚🏼‍♀️ My Heart in Nature @VeronicaJoPo]

August mornings in The Fens, the majestic Ely Cathedral with cows and the mist lingering over the field.
Ely, Cambridgeshire
#goodmorning #ElyCathedral #cows #August #TheFens

[Eric's Laughing Daffodils @BreizhEric1967]

Wish you a peaceful day Friends ☮️
#SydBarrett

[Ruth Chamberlain @RuthOnTheHoof]

The Mighty Welsh Cob. This is Geler Wilma and she definitely got the “look majestic against the landscape” memo 😍🐴