Gary Thomas

Cultural worker. Midlander. Welsh.

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

@EastMidRailway at least you’ve managed to have the heating on in coach G, 13:32 StP - Sheffield

[Denby Pottery @denbypottery]

We need your help to #SaveDenby!
We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost.

We need your help:
1. Share this post
2. Sign the government petition
3. Buy Denby
4. Visit us at the Pottery Village

Read more: https://t.co/g17lHz2ETx

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

@d_spiegel the animator is Rosanna Wan

[Anne Siegel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @annesiegel]

Welsh film Fires of the Moon / Tanau’r Lloer premieres @edfilmfest on 18 Aug. A niche but beautiful project we’d love more people to discover – cast & crew would be grateful for a share to help it reach new audiences.

Diolch Film Twitter!

https://t.co/5ITQu1DfJB

#EiFF2025

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

We have all sorts of laws and funding to stop heritage objects leaving the country, but none to protect heritage industries. The casual abandonment of manufacturing in Stoke - Moorcroft, Wedgwood, Royal Stafford - is unforgivable. 1/2

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

@AnnalisaB @OlivaceousD and..they supply fruit creams to @Fortnums

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

Shamefully, “marketing expert” Tim and @MarketingDerby fail to mention that the Trump campaign was also racist and misogynistic and “relentlessly dishonest”.

[Marketing Derby @MarketingDerby]

A digital marketing expert at @purposemediauk believes companies can learn from the online campaign that helped get Donald Trump elected US president.

Find out more 👉 https://t.co/UfjrkfEMGn

#Bondholder #News #MarketingDerby #DerbyUK

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

@EastMidRailway Please make sure your on train seat reservations work.

[Stuart Croft Foundation @AwardsSCF]

We are thrilled that @LeedsArtGallery will present ‘Eternal Return’, a major exhibition of artist film works by Leeds-born Stuart Croft, in partnership with @AwardsSCF + @leedsfilmfest , 8 Nov 2024 - 6 Apr 2025. Image: 'Comma 39' (2011) by Stuart Croft. Photo: William Martin.

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

21 October, 1966
Aberfan

..local residents rushed to the school and began digging through the rubble, moving material by hand or with garden tools.

Of the 144 people who died, 116 were children.

“Buried alive by the National Coal Board.”

[Tony Butler @tonybutler1]

“Part of the UK’s malaise is our talent for creating the kind of vacuums that are then filled by the worst actors. Our museums, are repositories of real and powerful stories: if they fall into more decay and disrepair, we should all fear the consequences”
https://t.co/4ojqxckBgF

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

@guardian “Derby bus station is a 20-minute riverside stroll from the railway station under shady lime trees.” And navigating the inner ring road.

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

It makes no sense for central government to fund mostly London museums and leave major and brilliant regional institutions (like Manchester, Birmingham, Derby) to their own fate. >

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

@CityProjectsLDN Very sad to hear this. I've always been in awe of the brilliant and important work you've done.

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

Not just in their brochure..Lewis Hine's 1908 photo of child labourers in North Carolina on a hoarding, promoting a housing development in Derby. It beggars belief.
@SequenceUK
@BagshawsResi
@Elevate_PG
@DerbyNews_OrgUK
@derbyshire_live
@DerbyCityLab
@MarketingDerby
@DerbyCC

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

This is from a brochure for The Silk Yard, Derby.
Why use an image of child labour to sell property?
Why use an image from the US National Archives of Catawba Cotton Mill, North Carolina, to sell property in Derby? @Elevate_PG @BagshawsResi @DerbyCityLab
@MarketingDerby @DerbyCC

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

Irony bypass @DerbyCC erecting their BUILDING A DERBY TO BE PROUD OF hoarding right in front of the landmark building they're going to demolish…
@savetheAR @ArchitectsJrnal @EvansVettori @OSaumarezSmith @hughpearman @barry_joyce
@C20Society

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

Actual Urban Rooms are spaces to engage people in issues about their local area. @DerbyCityLab partners include @DerbyCC and @DerbyUni but also @MarketingDerby, @lathamstweet, @_Derbion and @Clowes_UK - who are surely more interested in persuading, than engaging, the public…

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

It just seems a tad disingenuous to me for Derby City Lab to lay claim to being “based on the concept of Urban Rooms in cities such as London, Amsterdam and Shanghai”.

Why not set up an actual Urban Room and be part of @UrbanRoomsNwork?

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[Derby City Lab @DerbyCityLab]

The Derby City Lab is a true public/private partnership success story, based on the concept of Urban Rooms in cities such as London, Amsterdam and Shanghai.

Find out more about the Lab 👇

#DerbyUK #DerbyCityLab
https://t.co/yq2Z5IMJ3U

[Gary Thomas @lgarythomas]

@DerbyCC @VINCIukdevelop @IonDevelopments “The carbon cost of demolishing and replacing the Derby Assembly Rooms is equivalent to more than a third of the city council’s entire annual greenhouse gas footprint.” Architects Journal