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Victorian Traveller, Writer and Collector (1839-1887)

Annie Brassey

"Suffragette's Sacrifice. Captain H. J. Davison, R.N., A well-known Bexhill resident who will be the principal mourner at the funeral, which takes place to-day, of his half-sister, Miss Davison, who succumbed to injuries received in trying to upset the Derby." #Bexhill Observer 14.6.1913. #1910s

Three Black Cats, Carl Kahler, C19th. #Caturday

Sidley Railway Station, 14.6.1964 the last day. #Sidley #Bexhill #Sussex #Railway #Station #Train #History #1960s

Nice to see Anglo-Saxon saints can still make headlines! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

204 years ago, on the 14th of June 1822, Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (automatic mechanical calculator) to the Royal Astronomical society in London. #otd #history 🗃️

Sunbeam #Melbourne #Australia 14.6.1887. "After a bad night I had to receive many interviewers...In the afternoon I went with the Governor to the fine public library...we drove to the picture gallery...Then we went to the museum, where we found may New Guinea and Fijian curiosities." #Brassey #1880s

From 1875 a light vessel was established on the sandbank near Eastbourne. It was the first of its kind to display a flashing light. It was nearly a century later, and after a succession of ships, until the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse came into operation in September 1971. #Bexhill

The menhir of La Hoberie in Ussy (Calvados) is about 3m tall; it is said to have fallen through a hole in Gargantua’s pouch and that ghosts are seen by it. Card by Neurdein in Paris pre-1904. #StandingStoneSunday.

ELF RING A circle of mushrooms known as an 'elf ring' from Kate Greenaway 1905. The girl is tentatively stepping into the elf ring wherein she could be transported to the otherworld, or be made to dance by fairies until she dies of exhaustion!