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MEET Jimmy ‘Tich’ McCann (pictured). Jimmy was a well-known newspaper seller and ‘bootblack’ on the streets of Perth, Western Australia, during the 1930s. The ‘old fella’ loved his beer – especially upside down. You see, Jimmy claimed he could make… Read More › The post Perth newspaper vendor, Jimmy could make beer run up hill…

via Perth newspaper vendor, Jimmy could make beer run up hill — TIME GENTS

In last week’s post, we saw how Shrewsbury Borough Council had built homes even before 1914 and had built on a large scale after 1918. A second world war created new needs and ambitions in its aftermath. In fact, the Borough emerged from war largely unscathed – just two bombs fell on the town – […]

via Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part II: the Post-War Housing Drive — Municipal Dreams

My final offering in this series of pictures from our trip to New Zealand in February2019. I hope you’ve enjoyed them…so many more I could have shared!

Tourists might know Shrewsbury as a town with over 660 listed buildings, ‘full of higgledy-piggledy streets with names you want to say out loud’. (1) As a working town and somewhere to live, council housing has been equally important to its past and present and the council took an early, innovative role after some initial […]

via Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part I: ‘Shrewsbury’s first garden suburb’ — Municipal Dreams

We spent a bright Winter morning with Jorge Serôdio Borges in Vale de Mendiz. He met us at Wine & Soul, the winery where, together with his wife Sandra Tavares da Silva, he is making some of the Douro’s most iconic wines. Jorge showed us the granite tanks where the hand-picked grapes are treaded by foot, […]

via The wines of Wine & Soul — Salt of Portugal

Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’ is a popular Japanese Maple noted for its very deep reddish-purple foliage. The leaves have 5-7 slender-pointed lobes, and hold their colour well during the autumn – usually turning an attractive red colour. Small purple flowers appear shortly after the leaves fully emerge in the spring, and are followed by…

via ACER PALMATUM ‘BLOODGOOD’ — The Garden of Eaden

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