Dr Roger Pierce

Former architect, planner & political scientist. Quaker. Interests music, oil painting and coffee at Caffè Nero.

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@GraemePeacock1 The Pilgrims Way. Lovingly reconstructed. But how about reconstructing the timbers of the jetty below the castle. They’ve almost completely weathered away.

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@OnthisdayRN Later MP for Hartlepool

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@GraemePeacock1 Have you moved to Holy Island ? I envy you

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@SgtMajFrench But why?

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@SeeTyneandWear And later a floating restaurant at Friar’s Goose

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@historyinmemes An IRA gunner with a SLR seems unlikely

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@philatrail I hope that one was preserved

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@RailwayHeritage Pity about the cycle shelter. A simple lean to against the brick wall would have been so much more sympathetic.

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@jeremycorbyn Typically indecisive

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@jeremycorbyn And the millions more who would have died in an invasion of Japanese. . .

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@visitnorthyork My father, d 1985

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@flickhwilliams Yes, cyclists rule . . .

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@michaelwhite Yes, how sad. He was weak and lacked insight. Salisbury was his Waterloo. He just couldn’t believe that a socialist republic - Russia - could assassinate its refugees abroad.

[Dr Roger Pierce @Pierce1Roger]

@Christo03770888 Tab ends

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@OnDisasters Looks graceful. But actually noisy and bumpy.

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@AFowlerPhoto @greenbeltsal Pity that a gable can’t be rebuilt to show that the building was a farmstead and not a sheepfold

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@SCP_Hughes Technology and profit

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@Christo03770888 I was told how a grandmother cried when her council house coal-fired range was removed and replaced by a two bar electric fire. Modernisation.

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@clark_aviation Gannet

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@bo66ie29 How ironic that Gibson is sitting surrounded by field poppies. In a short while, he will be commemorated by one