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London terminii by Gail Brodholt

Liverpool Street London Bridge Victoria

#London #illustration #linocut #print #printmaking #art

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the interiors from Anne with an E are my new 2020s aesthetic

#anne with an e #interior design

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There are no unsacred places

there are only sacred places

and desecrated places

- Wendell Berry, How to be a Poet

#Wendell Berry #poetry #lit

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For my hometown: Yare. Which is honestly a great name.

For my current town: Great Ouse. Which is still an absolutely incredible name but perhaps not for a human baby.

The other day I learned on Twitter about a girl that was nearlly named after the river on her town. So, reblog with what your name would be if it was based on the river on your town (or the closest river)

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Almighty God, who hast created man in thine own image; Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil, and to make no peace with oppression; and, that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice among men and nations, to the glory of thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Prayer for social justice, 1928 BCP

#BCP #Book of Common Prayer #Anglican #Anglicanism

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St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

This may be the place I miss most in Bristol. My favourite church in England and I’m not alone, Elizabeth I was very keen too.

Photos by me.

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I was out cycling across hot, unshaded fields in Cambridgeshire and I came across this little church in a village which abuts onto a USAF airfield. It’s a church of no great distinction, not listed in Betjeman’s guide to the parish churches of England, just a few sentences in Pevsner, but it was of great distinction to me. The porch was left open and the stone was cold to the touch and I sat down and felt incredibly happy. It has been about three months now since I last went into a church and I am feeling the loss. Social media is full of people saying ‘oh but the church is actually the people and not the building’ and, whilst they’re not wrong, I have never really felt part of that kind of deep community, I have always been too transient to feel embedded in a church but I have felt part of a broad community whenever I go into one of these buildings. 

To sit in the porch and rest and say midday prayer was bliss. I have always enjoyed and appreciated country churches but when this is all over I will appreciate them even more. 

#church #churches #Christian #Christianity #Anglican #Anglicanism #Church of England #prayer #church architecture

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Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms" 

#Henry David Thoreau #Walden Pond #Walden #Concord

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Saturday morning. We are both working on separate projects but we’re sharing a pot of coffee and some mince pies ☕️🖤

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Six years ago

We did it!

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A few years ago I picked up this 1965 Blue Guide to England in a charity shop. It was only when I got home that I realised it was full of these beautiful, hand-drawn maps. 

Looking through the pages, reading their notes and looking at their maps of post-war Britain makes me curious as to who owned this book and what they’d gone looking for in Kendal and Keighley. They always mark the Roman Catholic church and bus station on the printed maps and on several of them they’ve scribbled-out the railway stations closed by Beeching. The name in the front is P. M. Wraper, quite unusual so, perhaps there is a chance at finding out more?

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Stevenage

“Buildings are part of a much greater thing, that's what fascinates me: the totality of things. I find everything fascinating and that is a gift. It's that Flaubertian thing: everything looks fantastic if you look at it long enough. That chimes with me entirely." - Jonathan Meades

Visiting England’s oldest New Town. Vaguely utopian. Mundane and special at the same time.

#architecture #public art #sculpture #modernism #mid-century modern #urbanism #new town #modernist architecture #modern art #England #travel #Hertfordshire #Stevenage

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Stand defiantly on your own feet, and do not excuse yourself to yourself. You do not exist in order to honour literature by becoming an encyclopaedia of literature. Literature exists for your service. Wherever you happen to be, that, for you, is the centre of literature.

Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste (via commonorgarden)

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The written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via commonorgarden)

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Interflug

Interflug was the flag-carrying airline of the DDR (GDR) from 1963 until 1990. Its hub was Berlin’s Schönefeld Airport and it focused primarily on serving fellow Comecon nations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. 

Although the DDR was portrayed as a hermit state within Western Europe it had a long and proud history of internationalism of which Interflug played a major role. 

The airline was liquidated in 1991 after reunification as no buyers could be found when the Treuhand decided to reprivatise the airline along with all other East German state-owned enterprises. 2,900 jobs were lost.

#Interflug #airliners #airplane #airline #East Germany #DDR #GDR #history #graphic design #design #mid-century modern #mid-century #communism #socialism

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Holyhead Mountain, Anglesey, Wales

I took the train up from south Wales to Anglesey and enjoyed a three-course meal en route in the restaurant car. I woke up early in my bed and breakfast and headed out of Holyhead along the coast path and up onto the heather-covered cliffs and over the rocky granite of Holyhead Mountain. You could watch the ferries heading in from Ireland from the peak.

#Holyhead #Wales #Anglesey #walking #nature #mountain #hiking #UK #Britain #travel #photography #nature photography #natural history