☀️ Eustace Collection: The Northern Lights
I sense their flow at first-light every morning, when they arrive with their animals. I hear the same words over and over again: Dolly, Bonny and Patch. From monastic chanting to pedigree panting.
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☀️ Eustace Collection: The Wondrous Things We Cannot See
Some people have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to rise up in a tiny capsule to the earth’s perimeter and see the stars through an oval window. There's no comparison to the transcendental nature of the sylvan, alternate reality that is Cheesden.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: Art Nouveau Frieze on House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
House for an Art Lover was built in the 1990's to a design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Atom
I place my thumb upon the latch and press. It makes a delicious ‘click and clump.’ I think of the person I’ve just seen walk in through the door before me. They pressed it too.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The ancient yew tree at Breamore, Hampshire
The yew at Breamore (pronounced Bremmer) is situated alongside the path to the remarkable Anglo Saxon church.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: Mortehoe Bench Ends, Devon
The chestnut bench ends are highly decorated and are said to be of C16th date, re-arranged in the 1850’s.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 Nov 2023
If I were a Banksy or an Emin, and presented the world with an object that had been shaped by the collated, nuanced press of several thousand people over five hundred years, I’d think I was onto something.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: Noah's Ark carving (with ghost font) at St. Mary, Long Crichel, Dorset
The whole church is a delight (the hedgehog bakery not far away either). Look closely above the ark carving and you'll see the faint outline of a Gothic script.
Lantern Fanlight
Marlborough, Wiltshire Lechlade, Wiltshire Malmesbury, Wiltshire The Evolution of the Fanlight 100 English Fanlights It's a niche thing. If you're into history, travel and material culture - I post out a digest from my time-travelling camper van. Free to subscribe. Subscribe Here...
