Henry Long 🐦
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London | parks | architecture | urban geography | churches | cricket | interesting and unusual postboxes.
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Joined December 2012
#QueenElizabeth ‘s ‘married quarter’ in #Malta - when she was a young Naval officer’s wife with few responsibilities- said to be her happiest time. Now sadly dilapidated but due to be renovated and hopefully opened to the public. #QE2 #Royalty #RoyalFamily
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An effigy of Paula Vennells, wearing an envelope addressed to HMP Lewes, is pulled through the streets by people in Justice For Postmasters t-shirts. It will be blown up later tonight #LewesBonfire
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The birthplace of Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley. #WindowsonWednesday #Methodism
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I am totally 100% against the public sale of fireworks in shops and online 🦮 Sam is terrified of them every year. It’s not just one night either, it goes on for days
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#OnThisDay in 1605 Guy Fawkes was discovered in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with a fuse, a lamp, a box of matches and 36 barrels of gunpowder 💥 🗝️ Fawkes was brought to the Tower of London, imprisoned and interrogated in the Council Chamber of the King’s House 📷
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We are delighted to share the news that, earlier today, Royal Mail launched 5 UK cathedrals by artist Judy Joel, as their stamp collection for Christmas 2024. Included in these edifices is Westminster Cathedral, representing London and the Roman Catholic Church in this country.
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Look who's back in the moat! 🐴 Today the @OpCentaur Shire horses were at the Tower of London roughing up the soil to prepare it for sowing seeds 🌱
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'In Loving Memory of a Dear Boy DANGER UNSAFE KEEP AWAY Loved, & Never Forgotten - Mother' A memorial in Ely Cemetery, photographed in the winter of 2009. 'Futility', by Wilfred Owen, who died #OTD 4 November 1918: 'Move him into the sun: Gently its touch awoke him once,
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Someone around Greenwich is having a very bad day today
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This posh woman in front of me at Costa bought brown toast and asked the server if they had any “honey bee extract”, and he replied “do you mean honey” and she went “if that’s all you have” and she actually saw me roll my eyes so Monday is off to a good start
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Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Bolton Abbey CC in Yorkshire
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More traditional varieties of apples from London Fields Schoolyard Market this morning...
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Dear Twitter, you’re threatening to suspend services to @StBartholomews if we don’t add a birth date, but you won’t allow us to go back before 1905. What do we do if our “birth date” is 1123?
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