Christopher Howse
@BeardyHowse
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Writer for Telegraph. Author of Soho in the Eighties and The Train in Spain. Opinions are often not my own.
Joined October 2013
Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74
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The bats of Batley: Batley Arch in Station Road, Batley, West Riding of Yorkshire, was built only in 1995.
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RT @AlteFritz1786: @BeardyHowse Well, they used to say that such buildings were built from coal. It was a revelation to my teenage self tha….
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If you prefer your stations black, this is how.Huddersfield looked before it was cleaned. [Pic: Historic England
The magnificent Huddersfield Station, opened 1847, built at the joint expense of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company (absorbed by the LNWR in July 1847) and the Manchester and Leeds Railway.
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The magnificent Huddersfield Station, opened 1847, built at the joint expense of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company (absorbed by the LNWR in July 1847) and the Manchester and Leeds Railway.
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Strangeways, with its 230ft ventilation tower, from the Manchester Oratory.
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RT @BeardyHowse: Second-century Roman hypocaust under the Bridge Cafe at 39 Bridge Street, Chester. Open to visitors, free of charge. Liste….
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Across the Irwell at Hanging Bridge in 1974 was an old fashioned grocer where as a treat for lunch I'd buy 2oz of roast beef and a barm cake.
In 1974, when my friends were doing their gap years in Thailand and Kenya, I went to Manchester and worked for the Inland Revenue on the 19th floor of Highland House on the banks of the river Irwell. Now it is 10 floors of Premier Inn and the rest flats. I'd run up the stairs .
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RT @SimoninSuffolk: @BeardyHowse I stayed in it back in October. There was a good view from my 9th floor room.
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In 1974, when my friends were doing their gap years in Thailand and Kenya, I went to Manchester and worked for the Inland Revenue on the 19th floor of Highland House on the banks of the river Irwell. Now it is 10 floors of Premier Inn and the rest flats. I'd run up the stairs .
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RT @RHummBooks: This has made Robert's day! On his special birthday he gets a name check in @BeardyHowse's super article on Stamford in the….
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RT @fotofacade: Ghost window: a spectral trace in brick and flint. Every now and then I come across a scene that is utterly beautiful but n….
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RT @HughWilliamson: @LondonMudlark Not the Doves Press type presumably? Famously dumped off Hammersmith Bridge by its maker, Thomas Cobden-….
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Mind your Ps and Qs.
It’s not unusual to find lead type on the foreshore. One theory is that it washed down the drains of Fleet Street (London’s newspaper district). Another is that it fell off a barge that was destined for a lead recycling plant, but really it’s one of the river’s great mysteries.
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RT @Bennett_Tom_: This new carved stone sign for Nammu Workplace on Fulham Road is attractive and respectful. A much better advert for the….
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RT @HACPIX: Caspian Gull #danubedelta "red around the eye" @Natures_Voice @photobnk @BirdGuides @birdingplaces @naturetrektours
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