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@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 5:24 AM

Micklegate Bar, York. The lowest part, including the gate arches, date from the 12th century, with some Roman masonry reused. The upper floors were created in 1350-75 to accommodate a portcullis and gate keeper.

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Pencil drawing of a three storey gatehouse. Two arches have been added through the city wall to the left. There are carved figures on the crenellated parapet and a number of heraldic shields on the central part of the wall. A large house can be seen behind the city wall adjoining the gateway to the right.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:46 PM

The finished illustration. Spot the cheese room on the right...

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Cutaway drawing of a 17th century clothier's house and barn.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:34 PM

The cheese making equipment formed a very small part of the finished illustration, in the ground floor end room shown here.

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Cutaway drawing of a 16th/17th century yeoman clothier's house. There is a weaving loom on the upper floor to the left, a domestic hall/kitchen with a fireplace under a smoke hood in the centre and storage room over a service room to the right. This last room contains equipment for cheese making and dairying.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 7:24 PM

Research sketches of cheese making equipment from Yorkshire Dales farmhouses. I was working on a cutaway drawing at the time.

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Cheese kettles, a bridge, a breaker for breaking whey, a grinder and some chesfords or cheese moulds.A cheese press from a Yorkshire Dales farmhouse.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 5:17 PM

The rebus of Abbot John Darnton, Fountains Abbey. John is represented by the eagle of St John, which is holding a crozier. On the left are the remains of 'Dern', barely legible, while the eagle holds a tun or cask to represent 'ton'. The right hand scroll reads 1494.

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Pen stipple drawing of an eagle holding a crozier it's beak while clutching a barrel in front of an inscribed scroll. It is a form of pictorial inscription or rebus using sculpted images and words to form a person's name.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 5:16 AM

Sketches as a reminder of a meeting of the Society of Architectural Illustrators. Brownsover Hall hotel, Rugby the venue; reputed birth place of 1st headmaster Rugby school near venue; coffee & KitKat + passengers on train.

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Pen sketch of a corner tower of a hotel building. The entrance is in the base of the tower, beneath an oriel window. Drawn from a bench in the car park, in the sunlight, having arrived early for a meeting of the Society of Architectural Illustrators. Drawing of a house reputed to be the birthplace of the first headmaster of prestigious Rugby school in 1515. Drawing of a coffee cup and KitKat on a fold down tray of a train. Sketch of a crowded train, the head the man nearest showing he is wearing headphones, the next passenger appears to be reading.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 11:08 AM

FB memories: teaching recording historic buildings at St Anne's College, Uni of Oxford & a moated manor house. Hartland House 1937 in the college; lunchtime sketch of a medieval manor I was showing students how to measure; a lecture on photography.

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Pencil and colour pencil sketch of a three storey tower-like part of a 1930s building at an Oxford college. It bears the armorial of the benefactor with beaver supporters.Pencil sketch of a medieval timber framed house with a separately built crosswing that was modified for a later porch that has been removed. A sketch of students sat around a table listening to a lecture about photographing historic buildings.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 9:05 PM

Guthrum's Street, or rather Goodramgate, York. A fine group of late medieval timber framed buildings.

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Pencil drawing of a curving street lined with three large, three storey timber framed buildings.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 5:09 PM

A walk on the Bar Walls, York.
Tower 23; tower 23 from the next one along, 24 & towers 24, 25 & 26 from tower 27, Robin Hood Tower. These are along the wall from Bootham Bar to Robin Tower (by Lord Mayor's Walk).

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Pen sketch of a city wall with steps by a rounded, open backed tower. Pencil sketch of a city wall, drawn from a projecting tower and looking towards another tower with buttresses on the outside of the city wall. A drawing of a medieval city wall with three towers, the wall walk supported on a series of arches.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 8:41 AM

We recently visited Cragside, near Rothbury in Northumberland. Plenty to see & draw there, including the clocktower and former estate manager's house.

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Pen drawing of a clocktower among tree foliage in the background of a sundial on a stone pedestal with a wooden bench behind. In the formal gardens of Cragside, Northumberland.A large house with numerous gables drawn from the upper terrace of a garden on a hillside. In the distance the Northumberland hills above the town of Rothbury.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 5:04 PM

Micklegate Bar, York. The original archway of Micklegate Bar dates from around the early 12th century, with some Roman masonry reused. It's closed now so lorries don't get stuck there.

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Pencil drawing of a medieval gateway with a rounded arch and large buttresses at the base. The sign reads ROAD AHEAD CLOSED.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 10:37 AM

After the background I went on to make a mess of the house gable. Cue more eraser work & redraw, then onto suggesting the foreground brickwork. Hopefully I have passed the fretting stage with this drawing.

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Work in progress on pencil drawing of a brick wall.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 9:23 PM

An early stage of the work on the drawing. At the time in 2020 my wife had recently had a major operation so was a bit distracted.

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Work on progress on a drawing which includes layers of detail. A tree in the foreground, a house in the middle ground and a cathedral in the background.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 3:07 PM

The corner of Chapter House Street, York with the Lady Chapel & Choir of York Minster. The Lady Chapel was built in 1361-73, the Choir between 1394 and 1420.

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A view down a street towards a cathedral with tall brick walls along the sides of the street. On the left are gabled brick walls of old buildings.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 5:27 AM

The wonky entrance to 8 Shambles, York for #ADoorableThursday. The doorway isn't quite as wonky as the rest of the structure.

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Pencil drawing of the three storey facade of a medieval building with less than perfect levelling of the floors that overhang the street and a doorway that has become twisted out of shape over the years.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 5:27 AM

Sometimes I get so absorbed in the subject I don't notice that the sketchbook is leaning over, like here at Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York.

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On site drawing of a church with weathered stonework.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 6:46 PM

Down by the harbour Alnmouth is the smallest museum in Northumberland. The Ferry Hut used to give shelter to the ferry-man who rowed passengers across the River Aln.

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Pen and watercolour drawing of a small shed with an open door revealing a bench with two cushions on it.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 12:05 PM

Thank you. It is easier to make out the bracket holding up the clock from the other direction. I think it was meant to look like a vine. The little figure on top is now preserved in the church while a replica is made.

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Pencil drawing of the clock attached to the wall of a city centre church in York. The former window is now a wide arch for a peace garden.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 6:45 PM

Happy 9th birthday to this drawing of St Martin-le-Grand, Coney Street, York. The church is famous for its clock of 1778. It also has a Peace Garden, established in the ruins of the original church in 1961-2 after bomb damage in 1942.

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Pencil drawing of a church with a tower at the western (left) end. It has intricately carved battlements and winged beasts at the top of buttresses along the side. A clock is carried on an elaborate bracket by a large arched opening that replaces the former window over the altar, now part of a peaceful garden established after the church was badly damaged by bombs in 1942.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 3:56 PM

The lower floor consists of an irregular shaped undercroft probably made as a store room. In the 16th century a fireplace added with a flue through the platform above. It's been used as a watch house, later a gaol & then a cowhouse.

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Pen and watercolour sketch of a narrow vaulted undercroft of stone with large fireplace in the right hand corner of the room.