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@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

An abandoned Edwardian era bank, somewhere in England

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bank vault
bank vault
bank vault
small bank safes in barred room
small bank safes in barred room
small bank safes in barred room
ornate heavy wooden doors
ornate heavy wooden doors
ornate heavy wooden doors
grand bank entrance with wooden double doors and floor mosaic
grand bank entrance with wooden double doors and floor mosaic
grand bank entrance with wooden double doors and floor mosaic
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@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

An abandoned Edwardian era bank, somewhere in England

#England #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Edwardian #History #Architecture

bank vault
bank vault
bank vault
small bank safes in barred room
small bank safes in barred room
small bank safes in barred room
ornate heavy wooden doors
ornate heavy wooden doors
ornate heavy wooden doors
grand bank entrance with wooden double doors and floor mosaic
grand bank entrance with wooden double doors and floor mosaic
grand bank entrance with wooden double doors and floor mosaic
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@Rachelburch@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Edwardian Christmas card #advent calendar day 5… sorry about the late start, life and health has got in the way. This delightful donkey one folds out..
I bought a job lot of Edwardian Christmas cards earlier in the year and wanted to share them #Edwardian

An Edwardian Christmas card with donkeys on saying ‘ wishing you a seasonal kick up’.
An Edwardian Christmas card with donkeys on saying ‘ wishing you a seasonal kick up’.
An Edwardian Christmas card with donkeys on saying ‘ wishing you a seasonal kick up’.
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@Rachelburch@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Edwardian Christmas card #advent calendar day 5… sorry about the late start, life and health has got in the way. This delightful donkey one folds out..
I bought a job lot of Edwardian Christmas cards earlier in the year and wanted to share them #Edwardian

An Edwardian Christmas card with donkeys on saying ‘ wishing you a seasonal kick up’.
An Edwardian Christmas card with donkeys on saying ‘ wishing you a seasonal kick up’.
An Edwardian Christmas card with donkeys on saying ‘ wishing you a seasonal kick up’.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

RBCG & Gabriela met in Paris when he was 26 & she was only 17. They were married just 6 weeks later. They travelled to the USA & settled into a Bohemian life in Mexico, where RBCG taught fencing & Gabriela taught French & guitar.

10/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Mexico

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They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

11/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #OscarWilde #Yeats #WBYeats #Engels #FredrichEngels

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

RBCG’s wife, Gabriela de la Balmondière, was equally exotic & romantic. Born in Chile, her father – French nobleman Francisco Jose de la Balmondière – & his elegant Spanish wife were both killed when Gabriela was 12. She grew up with an aunt in Paris.

📷 Gabriela de la Balmondière

9/18

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A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

RBCG & Gabriela met in Paris when he was 26 & she was only 17. They were married just 6 weeks later. They travelled to the USA & settled into a Bohemian life in Mexico, where RBCG taught fencing & Gabriela taught French & guitar.

10/18

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”
—Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday

🎨 “Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham”, Sir John Lavery (1893)

8/18

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Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

RBCG’s wife, Gabriela de la Balmondière, was equally exotic & romantic. Born in Chile, her father – French nobleman Francisco Jose de la Balmondière – & his elegant Spanish wife were both killed when Gabriela was 12. She grew up with an aunt in Paris.

📷 Gabriela de la Balmondière

9/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw

7/18

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He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”
—Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday

🎨 “Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham”, Sir John Lavery (1893)

8/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #FordMadoxFord

Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Please allow me to introduce Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936): traveller, adventurer, politician, Scottish laird, American rancher, superb horseman, writer of essays, polemic, history, biography, & fiction, he was born #OTD, 24 May.

6/18

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/a-world-of-story-rediscovered-r-b-cunninghame-graham-scotlands-forgotten-writer/

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A World of Story Rediscovered: R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Scotland's Forgotten Writer - The Bottle Imp

Questions? What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches? Went into Parliament as a Liberal and came […]
"'Don Roberto': Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham on Pampa", signed, inscribed and dated 'J Lavery/1901/To R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM ESQR.' (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted against an unresolved buff-coloured background with a wavering, distant horizon, a bearded man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a colourful yellow poncho with red and blue details, sits confidently astride a lean black horse. Tall, dry yellow grasses are sketched around the horse's legs.
"'Don Roberto': Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham on Pampa", signed, inscribed and dated 'J Lavery/1901/To R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM ESQR.' (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted against an unresolved buff-coloured background with a wavering, distant horizon, a bearded man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a colourful yellow poncho with red and blue details, sits confidently astride a lean black horse. Tall, dry yellow grasses are sketched around the horse's legs.
"'Don Roberto': Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham on Pampa", signed, inscribed and dated 'J Lavery/1901/To R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM ESQR.' (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted against an unresolved buff-coloured background with a wavering, distant horizon, a bearded man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a colourful yellow poncho with red and blue details, sits confidently astride a lean black horse. Tall, dry yellow grasses are sketched around the horse's legs.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw

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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Conrad #JosephConrad #Shaw

He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Please allow me to introduce Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936): traveller, adventurer, politician, Scottish laird, American rancher, superb horseman, writer of essays, polemic, history, biography, & fiction, he was born #OTD, 24 May.

6/18

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/a-world-of-story-rediscovered-r-b-cunninghame-graham-scotlands-forgotten-writer/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

The Bottle Imp

A World of Story Rediscovered: R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Scotland's Forgotten Writer - The Bottle Imp

Questions? What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches? Went into Parliament as a Liberal and came […]
"'Don Roberto': Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham on Pampa", signed, inscribed and dated 'J Lavery/1901/To R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM ESQR.' (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted against an unresolved buff-coloured background with a wavering, distant horizon, a bearded man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a colourful yellow poncho with red and blue details, sits confidently astride a lean black horse. Tall, dry yellow grasses are sketched around the horse's legs.
"'Don Roberto': Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham on Pampa", signed, inscribed and dated 'J Lavery/1901/To R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM ESQR.' (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted against an unresolved buff-coloured background with a wavering, distant horizon, a bearded man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a colourful yellow poncho with red and blue details, sits confidently astride a lean black horse. Tall, dry yellow grasses are sketched around the horse's legs.
"'Don Roberto': Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham on Pampa", signed, inscribed and dated 'J Lavery/1901/To R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM ESQR.' (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted against an unresolved buff-coloured background with a wavering, distant horizon, a bearded man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a colourful yellow poncho with red and blue details, sits confidently astride a lean black horse. Tall, dry yellow grasses are sketched around the horse's legs.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Is buried in a grave beside his wife on a small lake-island not far from Glasgow? Has, surprisingly, been almost totally ignored, even almost forgotten, as a personality & politician & writer by recent generations?

5/18

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Wrote nearly thirty books, including 200 short stories & sketches? Knew nearly all the great writers & artists of his day? Had a funeral attended by the President of a republic & the two most famous horses in the world?

4/18

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Helped to found both the UK Labour Party AND the Scottish National Party? Was a ferocious critic of imperialism, racism & cruelty to any human or animal? Bought his favourite horse—an Argentine mustang—from the Glasgow Tramway Company and rode it for twenty years?

3/18

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Went into Parliament as a Liberal & came out as a Socialist? Assaulted a policeman in defence of free speech & was sent to prison? Travelled in disguise in 🇲🇦 Morocco trying to reach a forbidden city?

2/18

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What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?

Buckle up – it’s going to be a long, wild 🧵 …

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A still from THE MISSION (1986). Robert De Niro, with a black beard and swept-back dark hair, stands in a haze of smoke in a jungle scene. He is dressed in a black shirt, and is holding a rapier out in front of him in his right hand. His left is on his hip, in a fencer's fighting stance. He looks unsmilingly along the length of his sword to whatever faces him.
A still from THE MISSION (1986). Robert De Niro, with a black beard and swept-back dark hair, stands in a haze of smoke in a jungle scene. He is dressed in a black shirt, and is holding a rapier out in front of him in his right hand. His left is on his hip, in a fencer's fighting stance. He looks unsmilingly along the length of his sword to whatever faces him.
A still from THE MISSION (1986). Robert De Niro, with a black beard and swept-back dark hair, stands in a haze of smoke in a jungle scene. He is dressed in a black shirt, and is holding a rapier out in front of him in his right hand. His left is on his hip, in a fencer's fighting stance. He looks unsmilingly along the length of his sword to whatever faces him.
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