St. John the Baptist, Bedford with the Rectory and 14th century former Hospital of St. John, still the locus of a surviving 12th century Trust, one of the UK's oldest.
Exhibitions: Light & Magic (Tate Modern); American Photographers (V & A), William Eggleston (Photographer's Gallery) and Pre-Raphaelites: Art & Poetry (Laing Gallery, Newcastle)
Not Abbey Road exactly, but in 1985 a driver videoing his journey through Bedford accidentally caught the 16 year-old me crossing the road in front of his car. I'm in the still in black on the right. Yesterday we re-ran the shot: I'm the 57 year-old man in black in the 2nd pic.
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Today my mother, Doreen Young, launched her third volume of short stories at @stedscath 📚 amazon.co.uk/Day-Small-Thing…
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I'm rather proud of this - it's largely due to me and Susanna Wadeson @TransworldBooks @DoubledayUK that Geoffrey Grigson's Flora, a true lost classic of nature writing, is republished this week. The new edition is beautiful, inside and out #ABritishFlora
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In this painting from 1913, Malcolm Drummond depicts an audience seated within a darkened cinema. His subject matter may have been influenced by his one-time tutor Walter Sickert, who also depicted an audience watching a film in 'Gallery of the Old Mogul,' seven years earlier.
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THE FLIPBOOK THE RICHTERS FOUND
There's no certainty which film it is, but indications point to it being Méliès's ‘Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station’ seen here on the left.
Parts of it appear to be photographs, and other parts appear drawn by hand as if to replace missing frames.
SEE what is likely Méliès's Star Film Nº 7 here. On the right is ‘Arrival of a Train at Joinville Station' (looped 3 times with music) for comparison.
In 1896, two of Méliès's actualité films were ‘Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station’ (both frames below are of Vincennes) and ‘Arrival of a Train at Joinville Station.’ Both are lost.
However, one of these films may still exist in the form of a Flipbook. Those closest to the story say it's ‘Vincennes Station.’
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The New York skyline from Central Park at night, 1928.
Photo: Thurman Rotan
#blackandwhitephotography
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Auty & Ruddock of Tynemouth offered customers a range of high quality photographic portraits.
Even the versos of their cards were high quality.
Discover more via the Pressphotoman blogpost below.
Trapp & Münch of Berlin supplied albumenised paper and cardboard mounts to Victorian portrait photographers.
A Pressphotoman piece on how a studio in Tynemouth, NE England used German products and printers to establish a reputation for quality.
pressphotoman.com/2026/10/12…
ALT Image credit: Free Library pf Philadelphia Digital Collections.
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Happy to announce the launch of the new 100 Year website we built for the person who coined the term "personal computer' and co-created the first online community: @stewartbrand. It includes his entire ~50,000 photo archive that is now in the Public Domain stewartbrand.org/
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All my work online for a guaranteed 100 years.
It's a new service being offered by WordPress. They tried it out on me. I think it's great.
Explained here: wordpress.com/blog/2025/02/1…
This is such a gift to the world. All of @stewartbrand’s work: writing, festival shenanigans, & 50,000(!) photos, dating back to the 50s: stewartbrand.org/
(Where else could you find Marshall McLuhan, Brian Eno, and Marlon Brando in one place!?)
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Behind the scenes at Pendon Museum: The team have been working on getting this very short and rather peripheral but nonetheless charming section of line operational on the Vale Scene which represents a slice of the Wantage Tramway - updates to follow!
I don't think I've seen all three pictures together before.
Farewell & thank you Margaret Hamilton. Was a joy to interview her for #13MinutestotheMoon back in 2018. A software engineer for NASA’s Project Apollo, among the first of her kind & pioneer in truest sense who pushed the boundaries of possibility in space and on Earth. Ad Astra.
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An essay I wrote for Slightly Foxed about MacNeice's Autumn Journal, one of the great long poems of the 20th century. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/l…