Today Lancaster told far-right thugs to jog on! Quick action by anti-fascist campaigners & the TUC meant they beat the Tommehs to the steps of our Town Hall with messages of peace & hope. Fascists aren't welcome in our city! ✊🕊️ #FarageRiots #HopeNotHate

Little break in Northumberland. The weather is glorious so staying on for an extra couple of days! #Northumberland

Happy dogs loving their holiday x #Northumberland

Sharpham #Devon House transformed by Sir Robert Taylor in 1770s, highlight being 'one of the most spectacular and daring later C18 staircase designs anywhere in England' (Pevsner Guides) 📸: C. Anthony Lewis

A couple of new arrivals on our website today! #antiques

In this work, John Singer Sargent translates a carved stone relief, representing the heraldic insignia of Emperor Charles V of Spain, into a study of light on pale stone - a phenomenal piece of modelling in paint. The escutcheon is on a wall of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain,

'Blackberrying' - still one of late summer's simplest, most satisfying pleasures.

Walk along the canal where Libby entertained the cows with her antics #LABRADOR

Charles Rennie Mackintosh made his reputation at the turn of the 20thC as an architect and designer of great originality. In 1914, he left his native Glasgow, and by the time he painted 'Peonies,' (c1920) he was living in London, where, although his work had never been fully

A few new arrivals on our website today! #antiques #vintage

Happy labradors living their best lives! #dogs #labradors #sunset #Lancashire

Hasn't stopped raining all day, so going full cosy!

Libby "helping" me to photograph new stock. This could take some time! #labrador #vintage #antiques

The sun is shining for a change, the insurance company have finally started work on my garden wall after the crash, the dogs have had their walk, and I've found time to restock the website. #flowers #vintage #antiques

A couple of new arrivals on our website today #vintage

Butter wouldn't melt, but so far today she has spilt coffee everywhere climbing on the table, chewed the corner of my antique trunk, destroyed a rose bush and eaten her sister's breakfast. It's a good job she's cute! #labrador #puppy

A group of fashionably-dressed women outside the Marshall & Snelgrove store on St Ann's Place, Manchester, 27th August 1931.

A couple of new arrivals on our website today x #vintage