The seven days of the Creation — A guided tour through the splendid illustrations of the Borso d'Este Bible 🧵

A slower pace of life in 1930s London. St Martin-in-the-Fields and Nelson’s Column in the background.

A quaint journey into the past travelling on the Talyllyn Railway. Built in 1865, it’s the oldest surviving narrow gauge railway in the world. Filmed in 1955.

Canterbury Cathedral is a magnificent masterpiece of art and architecture. Filmed from the cloister on my visit.

Chester in 1963, one of England’s oldest towns in the gentle grip of times gone by.

363 year old graffiti that I spotted on my visit to King’s College in Cambridge, from April 1661.

London, 1928. A shoe shine man with an unexpected customer. #NationalPetDay

Washing strung across the street in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1965.

The thriving British High Street in the 1960s. Every day life turns into living history - from the shops to the cars to the fashions.

Happy days in Regent Street, London, 1961.

The picturesque medieval village of Lavenham, Suffolk, in the 1950s.

Commuters on the London Underground with bowler hats and broadsheets in the 1960s.

The beautiful and opulent early Edwardian perfumery salon, adorned with an abundance of ferns and plants, at Harrods department store, London, in 1903.

Mrs Marion Taylor of no. 8 Archie Street, Salford, sweeps up the rubbish from her section of the street. On the step of no. 12 is Mrs Chapman with son Keith. April, 1962.

London’s West End captured in the evening rain. Filmed in 1962.

Visited the beautiful 1,400 year old Canterbury Cathedral today which was absolutely stunning.

Sunday morning in rural Britain and the village still hasn’t woken up, but as it gets nearer to midday there’s a stir in the air - for noon is the time the pubs open. The Sunday pint in the village pub is part of the English way of life. Filmed in 1959.