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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

bobbicharleston:

Bob Stork & the Heaton Playboys, Newcastle’s finest (and only) Cajun band, playing ‘Danse du Limonade’ on the rooftop of Heaton Perk.

time-real-and-imaginary: “A secondhand clothes seller at Newcastle cloth market reads as customers inspect her goods. A set of original glass negatives showing street scenes of 19th century Newcastle found by Aaron Guy, who works at the city’s Mining Institute.” Photograph: NEMiPA – Collection of the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle

time-real-and-imaginary:

“A secondhand clothes seller at Newcastle cloth market reads as customers inspect her goods. A set of original glass negatives showing street scenes of 19th century Newcastle found by Aaron Guy, who works at the city’s Mining Institute.”

Photograph: NEMiPA – Collection of the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle

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internhack: This is amazing (via Victorian Newcastle brought to life in photographic treasure trove | UK news | guardian.co.uk)

internhack:

This is amazing

(via Victorian Newcastle brought to life in photographic treasure trove | UK news | guardian.co.uk)

(via internhack)