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@taminf.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 1:32 PM

Hi guys, there's a hashtag left over from last week at the top of Sabine's P&G graphic. It should surely be #pompandpatterns not #pagesandpalaces ? Might be confusing for peasant minds like mine....

@robertemond.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 1:16 AM

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Prague Speculum Alchemiae. Evidence from 900 makes it the 2nd oldest building in Prague. An herbal pharmacy in the 1400s by the 16th century, Emperor Rudolf II established it as an alchemical laboratory.

#Photography #WCK #ECK

A desk either maps and parchments. A document with a quill is aldo on the desk as well as a writing tray of quills and inks. Photo by Robert Emond.

@romek66.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 7:15 PM

#UrbanGaze

when people did not read books, images spoke

Duomo di Siena, February 2026
#Tuscany #Italy #Siena #Cathedral #architecture #HumansOfBlueSky #PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces

@jude04.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 7:13 PM

Nostell Priory

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#ECK
#NationalTrust
#NostelPriory
#Library

Nostel Priory in Yorkshire. We’re in the library and looking over a desk covered with beautiful old ledgers. The room is all orange, gold and brown, quite lovely and very restful. On the wall behind the dest to the left is a fireplace and on the wall to the right is an ornate glass fronted bookcase.

@jude04.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 7:06 PM

Joseph Priestley’s Laboratory, Bowood House

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#ECK
#BowoodHouse
#JosephPriestley
#Laboratory

A photo of the laboratory in Bowood House Wiltshire in which Joseph Priestley first discovered oxygen. Front and centre is his workbench with a glass front behind which are green curtains. Behind it are a number of bookcases and a window with red curtains.

@vegypower.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 6:01 PM

#PagesAndPalaces 📖 #LibraryOfCongress
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#UrbanGaze #WashingtonDC
#HumansOfBlueSky #DollyParton

@nfknanna.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 5:59 PM

Bookcases and shelves holding a National Trust collection of rare books and manuscripts in the Long Gallery at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. #PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces #photography #dailyphoto #out&about #Norfolk

A long narrow room with a wide bay window at the far end. The plaster work ceiling is highly decorated and the walls are lined with tall wooden bookcases, low bookshelves and an assortment of chairs. The wooden floor has rugs at intervals along the room, with two yellow sofas either side of the fireplace. People are looking at the bookshelves and the paintings on the walls, or leafing through the books open on small tables.

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 5:54 PM

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From a time before computers. A writing desk with china display cabinet, wall hanging, chairs and many books on shelves, in the study at Standen, an Arts and Crafts inspired house, in Sussex.

A writing desk with china display cabinet, wall hanging, chairs and books on shelving, in the study at Standen, an Arts and Crafts inspired house, in Sussex.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

@robertemond.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 5:30 PM

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Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland.

#StillLife #Photography 📸
#WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin
#BlueskyPhotography
#PhotographersUnited
#PNW #Oregon

A desk with traditional Chinese calligraphy implements, including brushes, inks, and wax. There is a page wuth four symbols written on it. Photo by Robert Emond.

@laurette1.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 5:26 PM

The Jane Austen Plaque in Winchester Cathedral was erected in 1872. The inscription begins, “ Jane Austen, known to many by her writings….”
Also the last house where Jane Austen lived in Winchester with a blue plaque.
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#PagesandPalaces
#Hampshire
#Literature
#Photography

Her burial slab is just below this plaque. There is also a memorial stained glass window above the plaque and a bronze statue in the Cathedral’s Inner Close.

The blue plaque says,
“ IN THIS HOUSE JANE AUSTEN LIVED
HER LAST DAYS AND DIED 18TH JULY 1817.”

@listermj.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 3:47 PM

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Sam Read, Bookseller established 1887, Grasmere, Cumbria.
A beautiful location in the English Lake District.
Grasmere has many literary connections including William Wordsworth one of the Lake Poets.
#grasmere #lakedistrict #cumbria #photography #eastcoastkin

The image shows Sam Read Bookseller, an independent bookshop located in the village of Grasmere in the English Lake District.
It is housed in a traditional Lakeland stone building with slate roofing.
Open since 1887, making it one of the oldest independent bookshops in the north of England.
It stocks a wide range of books including local interest books, guides and maps, and the works of the Lake Poets.
There can be few places in England that can lay claim to so many literary connections, from William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Romantics, to John Ruskin, Beatrix Potter, EM Forster, Arthur Ransome and Malcolm Lowry.

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 2:50 PM

A horse rider passes the Knole, a medieval mansion in Kent. In 1967 the Beatles visited the grounds to film promo videos for Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane and were pictured riding horses in the grounds.
#PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces #ECK
*Not pages but a story for Shantha

A horse rider passes the front entrance of Knole, a medieval mansion in Kent.
Camera: Canon EOS 400D digital Tamron 55-200mm lens.

A scene from the Penny Lane video. The group ride horses through a stone arch in the grounds of Knole park. Picture from the very good The Beatles in Sevenoaks site. Many more interesting stories here for Beatlemaniacs. (That means you Shantha Mohan. 😁)
https://beatlesinkent.com/sevenoaks-walking-guide/

@alinagrafik.eurosky.social Sep 10, 2026, 2:41 PM

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Hardly a palace, but instead an outdoor bookstand in Havana, Cuba. It was interesting to see the selection of books, magazines and pamphlets.

#ECK #Havana #Cuba #Books #Bookstand #Reading

Multiple simple wooden bookstands loaded with Cuban books (mostly about Ché and Castro) are on display on a concrete sidewalk with beautiful shade trees surrounding the space. There are books, magazines and pamphlets.

@twitterrefugerin.eurosky.social Sep 10, 2026, 2:24 PM

Why is the building of Musical Instruments Museum Brussels called Old England? See ALT
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The building was designed in 1899 by Belgian architect Paul Saintenoy to house the "Old England" department store. It was a massive retailer that specialized in selling British goods,The Old England department store eventually went out of business and closed its doors in 1972. The Belgian government purchased the building in 1978. After a very long period of extensive restoration, they relocated the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) into the space in the year 2000. fashion, and luxury items—which is where the English name came from.

@alinagrafik.eurosky.social Sep 10, 2026, 2:21 PM

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Bran Castle (aka Dracula's Castle). There is a library to the left in the photo, complete with a bear rug and cozy reading nook with a small fireplace.

#ECK #BranCastle #Romania

At the far left of the image are dark wooden book shelves dimly lit by a candelabra. Adjacent to the shelves is a large Turkish Middle Eastern Brass Brazier (incense burner) set into a large bowl to catch ashes. In the center of the image is a brown and grey bear skin rug on the dark brown wooden floor. The rug is in front of a large white-painted reading nook that has a small wood-burning fireplace and a cushioned bench for sitting/reading. To the right is a snippet of a woven rug and candle lantern on the white wall.

@wanderlustfuldays.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 2:09 PM

Oct '24
📍Piccolomini Library, Siena, Italy

#Interiors #Art #Fresco #Sculpture #Photography #photographersofbluesky #travelphotography #EastCoastKin #ECK #PalacesAndGardens #PagesAndPalaces

@heyacordeiro.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 1:31 PM

A very large book from a Folger’s Shakespeare Library interactive installation at the National Building Museum in DC (2022) for #PalacesandGardens #PagesandPalaces #EastCoastKin #Shakespeare #MidsummerNightsDream #theater #experienceart #museum

A life-sized book, open to show both pages, with the lines written in script “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women mearly players.” William Shakespeare
“What transforms your state of mind? A bright sunny day? A page-turner of a book? An amazing theater experience? A beautifully designed space? Two of Washington's esteemed private cultural institutions-the
National Building Museum and the Folger Shakespeare Library have come together and transformed the Great Hall to present The Playhouse-a theater that welcomes guests for evening performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and invites visitors to experience a delightful immersive installation, special tours, and hands-on activities during the day.
Theater design affects how audiences observe, or even participate, in the action. Tiered galleries, open yards for "groundlings," stages in the round, or in stark black boxes all change how an audience experiences the performance.The stage here at the Museum was designed specifically for this non-traditional space, using the Great Hall's soaring ceilings, clerestory windows, and rows of columns to create a magical backdrop for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Even if you're not seeing the play, you can experience being part of it. We invite visitors to step inside these life-sized pages based on Joanna Robsons diminutive double-concertina book from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection,
The Knavish Lad, which
illustrates every scene from the play. We welcome all to act out a scene, perform a play of your own, or simply appreciate the beauty of the artist's work.

@mickpic.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 12:34 PM

Happy #PalacesandGardens #PagesAndPalaces
"Another view from inside the Pittock Mansion. Fantastic bookshelves and places to sit. This was called the Family Room. No TVs back then, so you sat and read and talked. I like the read quietly part." -mick
#Photography #MickPic #PNW #WCK #ECK #Portland