Nick Higham
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The Mercenary River, a history of London's water, published by @HachetteUK @headlinepg. Water news, London history, infrastructure etc... Ex BBC journo
Joined August 2009
Welcome to all my new followers. A quick reminder that this little beauty is now out in paperback! Andrew Marr calls it “original and gripping”, the Telegraph gave it 5 stars, the Mail called it “fascinating”. Y’all might enjoy it too…
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That’s it, I’m afraid. After 15 very enjoyable years I am quitting Twitter. The Nazi salute is the last straw. You’ll find me over on Bluesky, same handle, still posting about ghost pubs, laundry art, water, London history and anything else that catches my fancy…
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Ghost pub. The Crown, Worplesdon, Surrey (via FB/Martin Ward/Googlemaps). Now Crown Cottage, so residential. A long-standing ghost, this: Crown Cottage was home to the eccentric artist Sidney Sime for many years until his death in 1941…
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‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild…
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A characterful and rather charming corner of London’s East End that has survived both the bombs and the developers… In Old Globetown | Spitalfields Life
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Getty leads establishment of $12m relief fund for LA creative artists impacted by the recent wild fires… LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund | About the Getty
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@quentindab I’ll run it past my agent. Once I’ve got ghost pubs and the art of laundry off my hands…
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Speller’s most famous image shows a policewoman chasing a bunch of skinny-dipping small boys beside the Serpentine …
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The Art of Laundry. The Laundress by Paul Sandby, 1780. Attractive laundress being chatted up by handsome soldier was a frequent subject for 18thC artists, who tended to eroticise the women. This may have been sketched in Hyde Park, a frequent site of military encampments…
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@quentindab It was quite badly bombed (or possibly shelled) by the allies in WW2. The opera house was among the buildings badly damaged and not rebuilt until the 1970s, when they gave the job to a superstar architect. If you want to know how *not* to construct an opera house, go to Genoa…
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RT @thevicsoc: @highamnews As an amenity society we have to look at the designs when they are submitted for planning. Colchester like many…
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The Art of Laundry. The prolific Quebecois painter Marc-Aurèl Fortin (1888-1970) stopped painting for seven years in old age due to ill-health (he lost both legs to diabetes). He still managed to produce more than 8,000 works… (via Rita M Sjoholm, A World of Washing on FB)
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