johockey_1968

Looking out for better weather..___ 🩵=like

[Cat @catdeans]

This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby @denbypottery

[retrocvnt @retrocvnty]

Everyone better drink a cup of tea in honor of Anthony Stewart Head today 💔

[Murray Coombe @murraycoombe]

BRÖTHER MAY I HAVE SOME SEED

[The National @ScotNational]

NEW: An appeal has been launched as police search for two girls aged 14 and 15 who have been missing for three days https://t.co/2NlKYvnD3j

[robert gwynne @BobGwynne]

LNER poster territory, blink and you’ll miss it.

[johockey_1968 @leithlinkz]

@jetztdoch Yup

[20th Century Posters @C20thPosters]

Seen at Crewe station this week. A surprising survivor of the nineteenth century

[johockey_1968 @leithlinkz]

A few snaps of some 1950s glass slides from an Edinburgh newspaper archive.

[The Signet Library @signetlibrary]

The entrance hall of the Signet Library from a 1925 Country Life photograph newly donated to the Library. The decoration scheme was put in by architect Robert Rowan Anderson in 1908 - in colour in Patrick Adam's 1920 painting on the right - which would endure into the 1960s.

[The Signet Library @signetlibrary]

We're delighted to announce the completion of the recataloguing of our important collection of ephemera from the press of the great C18 Edinburgh eccentric William Mitchel, "the Tincklarian Doctor". Link to Dr. Kit Baston's article on the project in the reply.

[The Signet Library @signetlibrary]

A genuine rarity of Scottish music on the cataloguing desk this afternoon - the VERY scarce 1725 first edition of William Thomson's "Orpheus Caledonius", complete and undamaged in original binding. Provenance from the great Scottish musical historian Alfred Moffat (1863-1950).

[The Signet Library @signetlibrary]

Four spreads by the limner Robert Burns (1869-1941), the son of the Edinburgh Rock House photographer Archibald Burns, taken from his late-career limited edition masterpiece "Scots Ballads".

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

If you can, put a shallow dish of water out for wildlife who will seriously appreciate access to water during this #heatwave. 70% of natural small bodies of water have gone since the ‘70’s & water will spell the difference between life and death for some.

[C𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚘𝚗 @CeeChampion]

I bought this oddity from Ebay this week. 📽
It's a reel of The Owl Service.
A 16mm film reel in a can. I have no way of playing it - but feels quite nice to have it! 🦉

[johockey_1968 @leithlinkz]

@stephenkeeler I used to love that shop, aged 7, mid 1970s

[The Signet Library @signetlibrary]

Annotations by the great eighteenth century antiquarian Richard Gough in a sammelband of numismatics now at the Signet Library but once part of lot 1104 of his Sotheby Sale of 1810.

[The Signet Library @signetlibrary]

Pages and a cutting from the Signet Library copy of the Ashendene Press's 1935 farewell bibliography.

[elizabeth tutty @tutty352]

A big swell on Staffa today.