keithmarriott58.bsky.social
UK based retired Architect
Interested in photography, architecture, history, mountains and politics- not necessarily in that order
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I too am disgusted by Starmer’s volte face over immigration. Like you I’ve had nothing but admiration for hard work and kindness of the immigrants that I’ve come in contact with directly.
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This estate has long been a favourite of mine despite many architectural friends decrying it for being “muddled”. I love its combination of architectural and natural density, and the development of a rich privacy through “defensible space”. Its such a very liveable place
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Wow - quite a few years since I’ve been to Antwerp but I think I’ll be going back to see this
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Whitley Bay looking gorgeous under the baking Northumbrian sun
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The federacion de mujeres cubanas - Cuban equivalent of the WI !
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"In the..years to come not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we’ve done &..will say “do not despair, do not yield to violence & tyranny, march straightforward & die if need be-unconquered”
Churchill, 80yrs ago
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Ten Years After were a phenomenal band live when I saw them in 72 & 74. Alvin Lee had great charisma and played an audience like a master
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Very sad indeed. York University should be ashamed. Like many other Universities they want the prestige of being patrons without the responsibilities that go with it. A better option would be to sell it off and plan around it
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Poignant for me - I missed Blondie’s gig at Eric’s in Liverpool 77 as a rumour spread around that it had cancelled! …coulda woulda shoulda …
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😳👇
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…and it carried trains with nuclear waste through central London every night of the week for decades !
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Rebranded shortly after as the North London Line - I used it every day between Brondesbury and Richmond in the early 80s
Punctual but v old trains
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Infamy ! Infamy! … they’ve all got it infamy!
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Itis more like the molotov Ribbentrop pact than Yalta , unless the NYT thinks Russia has already won and Putin and Trump are dividing the spoils early
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Neither; Yalta was the division of the spoils of victory & We’re already past the appeasement of Munich. Its the equivalent of the molotov - ribbentrop non aggression pact between hitler and stalin in 39