Dave Stowe
@davidstowe1919
Independent Researcher and Historian. Interests: Civilian Internment, Crime, Urban History, Interwar Years. TV & Film. Leeds, West Yorkshire. Formerly Blog
Geordie pigeon - Haymarket Bus Station. They make 'em big in Newcastle. Nice coo too!
An assertive performance by Milland, and a deep dive into the sustenance needed in the event of a nuclear war - tinned Libby's peaches and coffee!
List and catalogues useful in terms of manafacturer's output and process, cut, shape, method of glazing, and use of bricks and tiles - although preference for me would be something physical and set in a local context where possible. Link and source in Alt.
Set of repurposed wooden internal and external house doors forming a screen at the Beamish Open Air Museum, July 2026. #AdoorableThursday
Greetings from St. Mary's Island, Whitley Bay (England) @pharology.bsky.social #Lighthouse
Thoughtful chapter on "The Italian Empire" from Richard Bosworth & Giuseppe Finaldi in Robert Gerwarth & Erez Manela (eds) Empires at War, 1911-1923 (Oxford University Press, 2014), with interesting discussion on Italy's influence in Africa and the Eastern Med in and following the FWW.
In which case, I feel sure the Construction Historian would have been especially excited by this familiar landmark back in the day. 😀 The British Screw Company, 153 Kirkstall Road, Leeds. Images courtesy of the Leodis Database (Leeds Libraries) and Grace's Guide.
Re previous post. Excellent book. Recommended on this site, coincidently. #ChrisSilver #RecordingHistory
Do make space on your bookshelves for Jasper Heinzen's "Prisoners of War & Military Honour, 1789-1918" (2025). I read this at a slower pace than I usually do because I wanted a more rounded view of the concept of 'parole' in the earlier period. I'm glad I did. #Skystorians
This beach could be anywhere - the Med or the near Middle East. It's actually Morecambe taken on Sunday.
It was nice to share a bench with Paddington Bear in Liverpool the other day - no bite of the sandwich though.
I've just come back from Inverness which is on par with Aberdeen for the most friendliest place I've visited in recent years. Even the cats are friendly - especially the cat I met near HMP Inverness...and the "Cromarty Cat" which escorted me on part of my brief visit to the village.
Seriously looking like a diet of beef dripping and marmite soldiers for me, swigged down with a bottle of stone ginger pop.
David Olusoga is correct...and to add further clarification: Mike Mountain Horse "signed on the dotted line..." 23 May 1916. This is clearly shown on the online Canadian FWW Personnel Records for Mike Mountain Horse and his enlistment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF).
The actions surrounding the death of Mary Bishop's father on 27 May 1918 as found in the war diaries of 6th Northumberland Fusiliers. Padre George Bernard H Bishop is commemorated at the Soissons Memorial, France. Images include Strength of Battalion 1-31 May 1918 and Casualty List 27-30 May 1918.
Bonfire Night when I was younger (w/out wanting to sound too nostalgic) was mostly about pie and peas, jacket potatoes, and parkin. It was also a community event, involving 'chumping' (collecting firewood) or 'raiding' the rivals' stockpile, and then getting together to make the biggest bonfire.
Shiver me timbers! Some worthy collectables and re-issues here among Sheila McCullagh's Griffin and Dragon Pirate Stories. schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/the-three-pi...
I think you are probably right. I like the 'new' Leeds. Lots of positive changes. I seem to remember reading a feature about Wallace Arnold in the online YEP - which I can longer find, unfortunately. Now found. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/heritage-and...
Soz. Not quite getting the Green Party vibe (or any other, for that matter), and leaning more towards the electioneering platform of Monty Brewster in 'Brewster's Millions' and 'None of the Above'. #QuestionTime
These really are quite amazing. It's like looking at a snapshot of some of the streets of my childhood until 1974. The photo of Leicester Place, and the long shot of St. Mark's Road looking towards Leeds Uni especially so. Some of the adjacent streets were Ritter St, the Bagbys, and the Kingstons.
The Blue Peter, Derby. The things you see on the top deck of a bus! More on the Blue Peter, Blue Pool, and Blue Boy below. www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570842 #ArtDeco #PublicHouses #Derby
Saturday vibes. Roy Lichtenstein, The Red Horseman (1974) and Carlo Carrà's original from 1913.
I couldn't help but notice the design of this drain cover outside the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam last week. Nice depth - and reflection of the drain cover too. It was a fleeting visit on this occasion. I hope to spend more time in the museum on my next trip. #Rotterdam
Super friendly cat at the S.S. Rotterdam in the Netherlands - and equally appealing carved funerary monument of a cat sittng on top of a gravestone in Crooswijk Cemetery, Rotterdam. #Caturday
I can certainly see the likeness to T.E. Lawrence, as found in this stone tomb effigy in St. Martin's Church, Wareham. It's the angular jawline and shape of Lawrence's nose and other facial features in this and other images I think. It's a striking watercolour nonetheless.
That's a good call - tho' so many films to choose from. I'd have to go with some of her later stuff and The Anniversary from 1968.