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This is such horrible news.

you can't tell me Christopher doesn't use that door too every chance he gets, I simply won't believe you

Strood has vanished #RiverMedway

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... “The photographs are part of a collection that include 8,000 images and was put together over decades by Rosing, a photographic consultant who worked with the royal collection at Windsor Castle, auction houses and museums.”

#Letterboxd Friday! - Last four watched

Chatham News, July 28, 1950

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

" If we lose these courses, we will lose more than thousands of devoted and pioneering academics. We will create a system where only the wealthy and privileged get to study the very subjects that make Britain what it is." archive.ph/202502121220...

The vastness of space enfolded into the interior of Rochester Cathedral. Mars as the disciplined, honourable, and protective Roman war god, like the Norse Tyr or the reckless, impulsive, destructiveness of the Greek Ares and Egypt's Set. Elon's longing - a cold, lifeless, rusty, dusty, desert.

Medwayish are soon launching a Kickstarter for a tea towel commemorating Strood's own Isaac Newell, father of South American football, and founder of the legendary Newell's Old Boys team. Get 'em while they're hot. www.kickstarter.com/projects/med...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/a...

madeby.tfl.gov.uk/2025/02/05/f... Oral Histories woven into public transport seating

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners

An inspiring evening at the White Horse, Chilham with presentations by Brian Hawkins, Dr Jake Weekes, and Dr John Grisby on the significance of Julliberries Grave. Much more to come, and interesting connections with Kits Coty (maybe of interest to @stoneclub.bsky.social fellow travellers)

""With silent films, probably 70% of them are gone," Lauro said. "It’s a piece of the puzzle that’s now been found. The puzzle of lost American cinema."" www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/...

#Letterboxd Friday - Last four watched

“All of those things — they’re your identity. The outward projection of who you are,” Clements muses. “And so it’s weird to not have it.” www.stereogum.com/2295946/losi...

Sticky Communications - Rochester

Minimus was fun; my favourite comment included the phrase "...seaside jazz horror... I think I love it?"

In 1948 C.S. Lewis, wrote in his essay "On Living In An Atomic Age";

The veloharp is getting prepped for Minimus, and the launch of The Minimus Archives, tomorrow at Analogue Music, Rochester from 1-4

A day late for Letterboxd Friday... here are my last four anyway

The Champion (London) - Saturday 27 May 1820

There's just the right amount of enigmatic threat in this 1893 soap advertisement

The Scouring of the Shire in London continues apace princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/

Sticky Communications - Collindale

"One section of a decaying ship's beam is just a piece of rotten wood, but if you gather enough of them in one place, it becomes a collection." Chatham Dockyard, January 2025

Rest in peace El Gato www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/fare...?

A reminder about the 16 for 16 (and also that Carl Sagan was an activist who got arrested) juststopoil.org/2025/01/06/n...

This seems to be worth sharing

My new favourite cinema factoid is that half the people who worked on István Szabó's 1991 film 'Meeting Venus' were called Stephen Tailor... in different languages.

Space was the place tonight at the Rochester Social Club, with an exceptional guest spot by Parsley the Lion, who walked from the station in a space suit to deliver versions of Black Planet by The Sisters of Mercy and Bowie's Starman

Strood

#Letterboxd Friday! - Last four watched