Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74

What date is this figurehead console under the jetty on 8 High Street, Leominster, Herefordshire – a 17th-century building refaced in the 18th century? Listed Grade II.

It almost sounds like a discouragement of smiling, as though it brought on consequent costs.

an urban jackdaw

"There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index." – C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image

Corn Square, Leominster, with 15th-century timber-framed buildings on the right and 16th-century on the left of School Lane.

Star of the show at today's moth morning at Hawkenbury Cemetery - a freshly emerged Elephant Hawk

A funny block of seats for today's Trooping the Colour, perched amid the creeper of the wartime Citadel. Who sat there? The Grand Old Duke of York looks on from his column.

Norman Balon, who has died at the age of 99, missed the point when he defined himself as 'London's rudest landlord'. There, I think, he mingled self-publicity and self-defence. People didn't go to the Coach and Horses, Soho, to be shouted at by him; they shouted at each other quite enough. Really he was the actor-manager of a twice-daily claustrophobic, drunken extemporisation in his pub which embodied bohemianism and self-destruction in the last two decades of the 20th century. Remember that 40 years ago the Coach was thick with cigarette smoke, that many customers were drunk daily, at lunchtime, and that no one was fearful of what they said. Things were not then as they are now. ✍️ Christopher Howse Article | spectator.com/article/norman…

My husband's task was a simple one: to buy a couple of bottles of water from the Morrisons opposite the station in case there was no buffet service on board (which would have made a waterless three-hour journey torture). If the train had left on time, he'd have missed it, but he came puffing up the steps full of talk about a 'meal deal' and proffering some Walkers crisps. Luckily for him he had also bought water, but what caught my eye was the labelling on the crisps: 'Grab bag.'. ✍️ Dot Wordsworth Article | spectator.com/article/grab-b…

A marvellous journey down memory lane to the Soho that time forgot by @BeardyHowse ... 'hats off'.... spectator.com/article/norman…

Congrats.

Mothers' meeting at the cemetery chapel.

I think it's fair to say Raasay has one of the best football pitch views. Next World Cup host maybe?

Older than it looks: the Grape Vaults, 4 Broad Street, Leominster, an 18th-century exterior over a 17th-century core, with timbers visible inside. Listed Grade II.

Fond memories of the RFH, the one remaining 1951 Festival of Britain structure to have survived into our anti-Britain age. @DerekTurner1964 @RFHOrgan @RSStGeorge @YesterdaysBrit1 @BeardyHowse @simon_schama @Roger_Scruton

Maudland Junction north of #Preston, with the line to the Fylde Coast off to the left and the West Coast Main Line, right; date, sometime in the mid-1960s. St. Walburge's RC Church, with its 309 foot (34 metre) high spire, dominates the scene. #Lancashire #Railways

Built as a house, dated 1600, 18 Broad Street, Leominster, has symmetrical timber framing in small panels. The shop front is late 19th century. Listed Grade II.

Click all squares with Brussels sprouts.

Hi-vis yallow handrails, Chatsworth.

Lovely timber framing at 45 High Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, an early 17th-century listed building (Grade II). But something amiss on the surface of the second floor.