This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🧵A photograph of Kirkstall Abbey by Leeds born photographer William Lyndon Smith (1836-1865) dating from around 1855. Smith exhibited widely around Britain from the 1850s until his untimely death in an ice skating accident attempting to save a couple who had fallen through ice
We could wait years for any results and then lock ourselves into using oil and gas supplies that could be disrupted with one bomb or Britain could more quickly provide battery storage in homes and use the cheap overnight windpower that currently goes to waste.
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Dr Francis Young
My moment in the limelight. Filmed at Leeds Discovery Centre @leedsmuseums.bsky.social @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social
Bargain Hunt, Series 74: Wetherby 4: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002x7p7 via @bbciplayer
History and Heritage Yorkshire
Hanging a chandelier at @leedsmuseums.bsky.social Leeds Discovery Centre. A moment of mild peril but very satisfying.
Andy Brown
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Having learned more about the amoral inventor of the notorious Maxim Gun courtesy of @davidolusoga.bsky.social A Gun Through Time (Leeds Grand Theatre) I was reminded that we have this cynically marketed Pipe of Peace in @leedsmuseums.bsky.social collections. Not sure it mitigates much.
Magic Arzonic Soap anyone? Claims to clean grease, paint, clothes and babies and even cure scurvy. I suspect it just scoured several layers of skin. A gem found inside a scrap album donated to @leedsmuseums.bsky.social in 1961. Leeds c1885. @leedscivictrust.bsky.social @thackraymuseum.bsky.social
Abbey House Museum exhibition "In the Picture" finally opens today. Linking some fantastic objects with original pictures and photos. A real visual feast. @leedsmuseums.bsky.social
In the Picture: Objects in Focus | Leeds Museums and Galleries | Days out and exhibitions share.google/kojgnWrQl6pl...
Kitty Ross
Kitty Ross
Kitty Ross
Kitty Ross
Kitty Ross
Kitty Ross
Kitty Ross
The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.
Danny Sebastian is in the saddle at Wetherby Racecourse, where a team of twins take on a mum-and-daughter duo, with experts Charles Hanson and Philip Serrell by their sides.
COMING SOON | Abbey House Museum | 28 February - 31 December | Discover iconic objects from Leeds Museums and Galleries collection paired with paintings and photographs of their history.
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Meet the woman responsible for uncovering forgotten stories hidden inside everyday objects in Leeds’ past
