Audrey Winter

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Formerly @urbigenous on Instagram and Twitter. urbigenous, adj.: born in the city. 🏳️‍⚧️

Photo of a circular cast iron coal hole cover set into a paving stone. Around the edge in raised letters it says "Hayward Brothers 187 & 189 Union Street Boro". In small raised letters at the top it says "No. 1. B". The centre of the cover has a raised design of four touching rings arranged in a square, each with gaps in the line making it appear to comprise six curved segments; inside each ring are seven smaller rings in a hexagon formation. A plus shape sits in the gap at the centre between the four large rings. The cover sits in an iron ring with incised lettering saying "For Haywards patent plate 1 / to be fixed with Portland cement".
Photo of an extremely worn down and chipped circular cast iron coal hole cover in concrete pavement. Lettering around the outer edge reads "C. Whitley Kings Cross". The inner design is almost completely obliterated but smaller letters reading "trade mark" can still be made out.
Photo of an old enamel street name sign on a brick wall, saying Field Street in black on white and below that, as a separate piece, W.C. in red on white.
Photo of the area above the doorway of a Victorian Gothic stone building. An arch formed of three stones is surmounted by an armorial panel with a relief carving of a man with a child on his lap, and an inscription which reads "FOUNDED 1714 REBUILT 1857". The 8 has a flat top. Above the panel and at either end of the inscription are carved heads of men.
Photo of a brick wall with two inset terracotta plaques. The one on the left says "A.D."in a florid serif with letters overlaid on a shared central axis. The one on the right says "1888", but arranged so the 8s overlap each other in pairs, and the innermost 8 of both pairs are a shared digit , which is slightly larger, and the loops wrap around the 1. The overall effect is a floral figure.
Frontage of Ford's Hospital, a half-timbered almshouse built in 1509
Photo of an enormous ledger, 55cm high, 40cm wide, and 20cm thick, hard bound with calf leather half all gone, and a metal strip at the top edge of the rear board (which would have been matched on the other board edges originally)
Photo of the National Archives building on a scorching hot day with its lake in front. Jauntily angled text says "What if we kissed 😳 😳 in the National Archives lake 🥵🌡️💦 " The lake water is a deep green color. A koi carp is faintly visible in the foreground accompanied by a very small text label which just says "fish"
photo of the book Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique by Marc Drogin, on my desk
Photo of a large stone gatepost made of cuboid granite blocks. "Carriages To Be" is faintly visible painted on the front face of the top block.
Photo of the plain black front endpapers of a green cloth bound quarto volume. Affixed to the first page is a book plate for an award. It is white with an offset blue border containing a white floral motif. Inside at the top is a heraldic escutcheon printed in red. Ribbons on either side are outlined in blue and say in red "Borough of East Ham Education Committee". A ribbon under the escutcheon says "PROGRESSIO CUM POPULA". In large red letters, outlined in blue, and surrounded by blue versions of the same leaves from the border, is written "PRIZE". Below that in blue, "Awarded To". Then handwritten in black ink, "Ivy Blunsom". Printed again, "For". Handwriting again, "Successful Work" and under that "Plashet Lane" alongside printed "School". Below, handwritten, "Infants' Dept. April 30th", and finally, printed, "1912".
Photo of the front endpapers of a quarto volume; they are a beautiful shiny navy blue on cream marble. The front board has a book plate affixed with a heraldic-style design of ribbons surrounding a shied-shaped space. The top ribbon reads "North London Collegiate School for Girls." In the centre space it says "Presented to Miss Annie Somes for Diligence and Attention in Languages 1898". The bottom ribbon says "we work in hope."
Photo of a brick wall with a stone marker inset between white-painted stone lintel and T-shaped sill, the inner edges of which and vertical brick edges around the marker are chamfered. The marker is a white-painted stone rectangle with relief shield form, on which in relief are a carved cross dividing it into quadrants, painted black, with arms terminating in leafy arrowheads. It's surrounded by relief letters painted black: spanning the vertical axis at the top, the initials "WW"; behind and vertically aligned with the horizontal axis, spread to be alongside the arrowheads, "AD"; and split half-and-half between the centre of the bottom two quadrants, "1888", using flat-topped eights. Below and on either side of the shield are a pair of small red and black-painted relief Tudor roses.
Sepia photograph of seven Yeoman Warders (aka Beefeaters) standing, or in one case sitting, in a passage under a building somewhere in the Tower of London in the 1910s, printed as the front of a postcard. All are wearing a uniform with the GVR insignia of King George the 5th with several medals attached, and all have a moustache.
Photo of a cast iron fire hydrant cover set into the pavement. It's covered with small diamond shapes in relief to provide grip when being walked on. A rectangle in relief surrounds large relief letters reading "BH FH 1928". Above and below the rectangle is smaller relief lettering reading "J. Stone & Co. Ltd London S.E.".
The front of a small terraced house, the bricks of which have been painted red until ¾ of the way up (the middle of the upper windows), and the pointing of which painted over in bright white in an extremely wobbly way. Many of the vertical lines of pointing in the upper part are slanted to the left, suggesting someone clinging onto a ladder with their left hand and stretching to paint with their right. Oh dear
Scan of a paragraph of text. Reads: And you ſhal haue moche more mony for your labours & paynes then you haue had in tymes past / & better name and fame. And at your endynge the glory of the kyngdome of God for your rewarde, to the whiche I pray God ſende us there to remayne.
A rectangular (portrait format) cast iron cover set into the pavement, decorated with raised alternating vertical and horizontal dashes for grip when being walked upon, and bearing the legend "HUDC FH 1897"
Part of the text on the title page, where there is an error in the word "Fleet". It says: LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HODSON, FEEET STREET. AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1850.
Woodcut illustration titled The Doings of a London Dandy of 1646. A man is shown, holding a cane, wearing (I'm not a fashion expert so forgive my inexact descriptions) a flat-topped conical hat with a big feather stuck in it and ribbons sticking out on the other side; a waist-length brocade jacket with only the four top buttons done up, over a waistcoat with floral decoration up the sides of the closure; under the jacket, a shirt with big frilly cuffs sticking out, also with some ribbons; pantaloons with ribbons at mid thigh on the side; a codpiece; pointed knee high boots with spurs, some kind of folded out ring at the top all the way around above the knees; and massive, I genuinely don't know any words for them, cuffs I guess? at mid calf level which must be about eight inches in diameter and have a frilly inner layer sticking up out of them, looking almost like he has his legs stuck through a pair of crowns. His other arm is resting on his hip and a cloak is hanging over it. He's also wearing a rapier on that hip. He has long hair, tied in front into a pair of pigtails with ribbons, a mustache over a soul patch, and a beauty spot on one cheek. He's also making a cunty little expression.
Brick wall with a bricked-up doorway that has a mock Tudor stone lintel with spandrels, on which is carved "Southwood Hall"
Google Maps Street View photo of the former restaurant, with one end and most of the tower now covered in ivy
Photo of a pipkin, a medieval three-legged earthenware cooking vessel, with spout
Part of a display caption, which reads: Bacchus and Venus These two statues stood on either side of the waterwheel at the end of Bourne Hall Lake until they were stolen in 2004. Since then, they have lived inside the Museum.
Photo of some of the display cases in Bourne House Museum, on the upper floor of a "flying saucer"-shaped building, lit by sunshine through a large circular skylight