John Preston

Changing lives thro' business development for The Conservation Volunteers across North +children, allotments, birding, stained glass & pilot's licence Own Views

[John Preston @JohnPLeeds]

Sounds like it might be an interesting read

[Mike Lambert | Farmhand | Letter writer | @1610captain]

@thelonningsguy has a new book coming out it April. If you fancy a free copy, like or retweet this. In 48 hours, I'll select a random winner and send you the book.

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@SundPamela I finally cracked and found time to make the shelves. Lots of sorting still to do.

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@SundPamela Does this give you hope?

[Fell Top Assessors @LakesWeather]

It was another amazing day of cloud inversions on Helvellyn today, it was a special day to be on the high fells! We just need some snow now! #helvellyn #cloudinversion #summitsafely

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@RosemaryKarlss1 Merry Christmas. Hope you are doing OK. ?

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@MichelleU_Wood A Merry Christmas Michelle. Successful painting in 2025

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@Petercl04558275 And to you Pete. May 2025 be a good year.

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An unusual window, the tracery and designed to be viewed from the enclosed staircase, lit by the room/outer window beyond. Fountains Hall @fountainsabbey In memory of two lost in WW2
As many gather with friends and family- remember those who will not be there, @BSMGP

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@WriterHannahBT That would be a more colourful first bird series. It is wet and windy I have been listening for #firstbirdofmyday nothing. So chilly I will be forced to get up.

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@MichelleU_Wood Beautiful work

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it is lovely, although I fear the bike slightly undersize?

[CatherineRosamundLowe @CathyRLowe]

The Postal Museum archives yield more rejected treasures!

I thought I might as well put "Nash" speculatively into the search box, and up came this handsome watercolour, pencil, & pastel poster design.

Rejected by the Poster Advisory Group on 12 February 1936. @churchartnature

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@SimoninSuffolk I feel the need of a visit

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Painting of a celebration in 1953 signed simply BZ. ..the banner in the painting says Acrobatics of Burley...in the background is a church steeple...many others from different Burleys suggested Leeds.
could it be a celebration in @BurleyPark Any insight @ahistoryinart @HWarlow

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@MichelleU_Wood On the Folly Flanuse website. A weekly post on Follies. The painting is c 1908 and in the Kirklees collection

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@ahistoryinart I saw the early 1990s exhibition twice some remarkable total landscapes with naval and northern. Thus one really different

[Gretel Le Maître @GretelleMaitre]

As it’s a chilly old day, make a pot of tea, put a blanket on your knees, shut your eyes for ten minutes and listen to short passages from the past. I’d be thrilled if you would join me☔️🤗 https://t.co/m08SBtXh6V

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@WriterHannahBT A couple of solo crows riding the wind as it curls off the roofs of the bigger terraces. A couple of six times craw calls of joy? from ones playing king of the chimney pots And we have had a mistle thrush drop by to finish off the final rowan berries #FirstBirdofMyDay

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Powerful painting.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Akseli Gallen-Kallela is famous for his illustrations of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, and for his vibrant and luminous paintings of Finland’s countryside and people, with this work 'Spring at Kalela,' at the turn of the New century, he achieved a stylistic culmination of his national romantic period of the 1890s.

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Click in Storm Bert !

[Duille @DuilleDesign]

Poster. Kathleen Stenning. 1925.