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Anna Keay

3 months

Thrilled to have a chance to talk about the new @landmarktrust -led project to save #Mavisbank on @SkyNews just now. It really does come down to whether we collectively care about such places enough. #itsonus

Kay Burley

@KayBurley

3 months

A historic mansion that's close to collapse We ask @AnnaLandmark how it can be saved It won't be cheap 💰 #KayBurlley PO

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Anna Keay

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2 years

It’s 3 November. The apples of England have just been picked - a bumper year, but my local @sainsburys is selling apples flown 12,000 miles from New Zealand. How can that make any sense? ‘Net zero by 2035’ @sainsburys ?

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Anna Keay

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1 year

The oldest English crown predates both Christianity & England. An arched bronze circlet discovered in the 1980s, still on the head of a buried Iron Age king. Whatever yr view abt monarchy today, it’s hard to overstate the antiquity of what’s going to take place tomorrow.

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Anna Keay

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10 months

Holy moly, the roof of #WestminsterHall is a wonder. My friend Dan Miles of the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory says it’s unparalleled in the world for design, engineering & craftsmanship. It was blt in 1390 & over 600 years later still takes your breath away. #medieval

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Anna Keay

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3 months

This is the kind of thing we want to know.

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Anna Keay

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5 years

I can’t tell you how happy this room makes me. Drawers for estate archives and papers installed in the mid-17th century. I’d like to be left alone in here for a very long time. #hardwickhall

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Anna Keay

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4 years

This gem is known as the Exorcist’s House. Dated 1635 and built against St Nicholas’s churchyard. The Dutch pedimented gable is found all over Lynn; hordes of Dutchmen came over to help drain the Fens at exactly this time - maybe one of them settled here.

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Anna Keay

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2 years

This is what grand town houses were like in the 12th century. London, Norwich etc must have been full of such places. Shops on ground floor, civic rooms on first, lodgings on the top. A rare survival of c1150, St Antonin Noble Val, France.

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Anna Keay

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6 years

I love passing ‘the oldest door in England’ (Westminster Abbey, 1050s). It leads to a tiny office/broom cupboard. Caused huge excitement a decade ago when colleagues at @EnglishHeritage dated it (& swift removal of all the things sellotaped to back of it).

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Anna Keay

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3 years

Endlessly fascinating, and horrifying, ‘before’ and ‘after’ of London in 1666. What on earth must it have been like to walk through those fire-devastated streets? Incredible detail captured by Wenceslaus Hollar (zoom in for a massive spot-the-difference).

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Anna Keay

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1 year

We ran out of time to talk about the coronation spoon! The ONLY item of the medieval regalia to survive. (Huw Edwards said the collection was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell during the Protectorate, which is not true - see #therestlessrepublic )

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Anna Keay

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1 year

What an incredible night! So honoured to win the #DuffCooperPrize . As I said in my speech, Oliver #Cromwell wasn’t a great reader (Bible excepted, obvs) but he would have enjoyed the champagne 🍾🍾🥂 #therestlessrepublic

The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize

@DuffCooperPrize

1 year

Our winner! Warmest congratulations to Anna Keay @AnnaLandmark @WmCollinsBooks for winning the #DuffCooperPrize for her 'compelling & immensely readable' The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown #PolRoger #NewCollege

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Anna Keay

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4 years

Three fine medieval jettied houses on Nelson Street, Kings Lynn. Two in great medieval colours. The third had the area under the jettying filled in C18th - as you can just see from the timber detail at the end of Devil’s Alley. Lovely. Like Suffolk only nicer.

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Anna Keay

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6 years

This magnificent rood screen was carved in about 1500. It’s in a tiny church up a single track road in the Black Mountains. What marvels the churches of this country contain.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

5 years

I feel absolutely undeserving of this lovely honour, but delighted nonetheless.

The Landmark Trust

@LandmarkTrust

5 years

🎉Congratulations to our wonderful Director, @AnnaLandmark who has been awarded an OBE for services to heritage!👏 #OBE #heritage #congratulations

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Anna Keay

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4 years

The wonderfully named ‘Guildhall of the Holy and Undivided Trinity’, Kings Lynn. Medieval hall (1420s) with extension blt 200 years later in the same snappy check of flint and stone. I am happy to tell you the borough council still meets weekly in this magnificent building.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

1 year

Wonderful graffiti upstairs in a medieval house in #Clare , Suffolk, showing figures at work on a building site.

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Anna Keay

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3 years

Compare and contrast. North Creake and South Creake churches, Norfolk, both with spectacular 15th century roofs. North unrestored, South with wings and colour reinstated. Which do you prefer?

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Anna Keay

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6 years

The early Roman aqueduct at Patara, Turkey. Broken segments in grass show how each segment of the pipe connected to the next. Along the top inspection holes every 10 stones. Surrounded by wild thyme & wild tortoises (really!)

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Anna Keay

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4 years

It still blows my mind that this - Norwich Castle - was built almost 1,000 years ago, by people who had come over with William the Conqueror. Makes you wonder about the notion of progress. Catching this evening’s setting sun.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

2 years

Just unwrapped, biked over by the lovely people at @WmCollinsBooks , the first advance copy of my new book! 5 years in the writing. Available to pre-order now, in shops 3 March. #therestlessrepublic 😅🥳😬

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

1 year

Skint, I sold my university history books in the Oxford @blackwellbooks in 1995 & then (predictably) splurged all the ££ in the pub next door. #Blackwells really is the mothership of booksellers. Cld never have imagined #TheRestlessRepublic wld be its book of the month 😊😊🎉

Blackwell's

@blackwellbooks

1 year

The Restless Republic by @AnnaLandmark is Blackwell's Book of the Month! Anna Keay brings to vivid life the most extraordinary and experimental decade in Britain's history. Order your copy: @HarperCollins @WmCollinsBooks

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

1 year

Ooo such a thrill recording @TheRestHistory episode with international broadcasting legends @dcsandbrook & @holland_tom - even if I did have to wear air traffic control headphones. The ‘brave bad man’ himself presided off camera.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

3 months

Who knew? Off the main street in #Chard is this fabulous Elizabethan merchant’s house with a great vaulted and plastered room added 1632. #CharlesI stayed here for a week in 1644. Recently acquired by the brilliant Somerset Building Preservation Trust.👏

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

7 years

Extraordinary prehistoric creatures frozen in the Derbyshire limestone floor at Great Snoring church.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

2 years

At @stjohnscam Cambridge this afternoon examining a Ph.D. The incomparable Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, presides alone over the high table in the Great Hall. What a painting, what a woman.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

4 years

Over the moon to have confirmation @LandmarkTrust can heave open our ancient doors once again, with English buildings reopening from 6 July! Roll up, roll up! What better tonic to 3 months’ lockdown could there be than a stay in one of these gems?

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

9 months

📣💥Thrilled & delighted to say that from 9.45am tmrw #TheRestlessRepublic will be @BBCRadio4 #bookoftheweek !🎉 Tune in at 9.45am or 12.30am. Or listen here 😊😊 @WmCollinsBooks @DHAbooks

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

1 year

Yes, recording @TheRestHistory with @holland_tom & @dcsandbrook was every bit as much fun as you would hope. Even under the steely gaze of the Town Bull of Ely himself. 👀

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

3 years

I’ve wanted one of these desk-mounted pencil sharpeners for 30 years, after first meeting them in the library at school. Now I have one of my v own! So excited. Must go, I have pencils to sharpen... #stationery #Christmas

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

6 years

I find it impossible to put into words just how beautiful I find the medieval/17th-century Duke Humfrey’s Library, @bodleianlibs . It genuinely makes me want to cry with love.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

6 years

Glorious #StPancras on this beautiful January morning. I remember visiting when it was on verge of dereliction in 1990s. Surely one of the greatest historic building revivals of our time?

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

3 years

One of my all time favourite bits of medieval sculpture: the angels climbing the ladders to heaven on the west front of Bath Abbey. Esp the way they glance down knowingly at we mortals below.

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Anna Keay

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4 years

I’ve fallen in love with Beverley (E Yorks). What a wonderful town! Shopping a genuine pleasure with proper market, Georgian market cross and top historic shopfronts - including snakes (or possibly eels?)

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

4 years

Two King’s Lynn doorways, twenty yards and two hundred years apart. #thebeautyallaroundus

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Anna Keay

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4 years

Glorious Canterbury, just teeming with terrific medieval houses, every blocked window telling a story. #alwayslookup

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Anna Keay

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1 month

The old Crown Tavern on Cornmarket, #Oxford . #Shakespeare ’s usual pit-stop on ‘his journies between Warwickshire and London’. Just wonderful that this survives among all the Starbucks and phone shops below. Visits thru the brilliant @OxfordPresTrust

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

5 months

Fairburn Tower, nr Inverness. Until restored by @landmarktrust in 2022 it was utterly derelict - no roof or floors. Book a stay with us this year & support a cause - reclaiming beautiful historic places from loss & sustaining old skills. #Romance #History #Conservation

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Anna Keay

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4 years

The brilliant barmy Egyptian House in Penzance. Built at the height of Egyptomania in the 1830s, with mineral and stationery shops on the ground floor. Now @LandmarkTrust flats and furnished with suitably almost-Egyptian artefacts by my colleague John Evetts.

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Anna Keay

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4 years

This evening I lent my bike against the remains of the Carmelite Friary or Whitefriars built in the 15th century. It served as a dovecot after the monasteries were dissolved. Wonderful slender medieval bricks (pointing needs attention tho).

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

2 years

Building good new houses is not easy, but even so … 🙄😵‍💫 @PlanningShit #kingslynn

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Anna Keay

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5 years

Beautiful beyond compare: Sir John Clerk’s masterpiece, Mavisbank, 1723. Here’s hoping that one day this sublime place might be retrieved from dereliction.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

5 years

Pinned on a noticeboard I passed this week.

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Anna Keay

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6 years

If there is a person alive who has walked past better hinges today, I’d like to see proof.

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Anna Keay

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7 years

Fabulous hidden library door at Cobham Hall in Kent. Heaven. I Iong for one of these.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

1 year

#TheRestlessRepublic is out in paperback on Friday! Just £9.99. Retweet for a free signed copy, winner chosen at random by Fidget the Cat on Saturday morning. (Plus optional paw print 🐾) @WmCollinsBooks #cats

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

5 years

Westminster Hall is astonishing: it was the largest hall in Europe when built in 1097 (1097!). Even in 2019 its scale makes you gasp. Here Charles I was tried & condemned to death. What a survival. Great to see its C14th hammerbeam roof being so expertly repaired.

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Anna Keay

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4 years

Ta-da! Today marks the completion of our very latest @LandmarkTrust building rescue: Cobham Dairy, Kent. James Wyatt, 1795. Made possible by brilliant team, wonderful supporters & fabulous @Ecclesiastical . 🍾

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

5 years

Last morning of my hols. Hard to imagine a more romantic place to stay than the exquisite banqueting houses in #ChippingCampden built by Baptist Hicks in 1620. Saved from dereliction by @LandmarkTrust in 1990 and still going strong.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

1 year

And it’s done! Celebrating the completion of @LandmarkTrust restoration of #FairburnTower nr Inverness in glorious sun. Only possible thanks to 1,600 donors & brilliant team inc architect Julie, project manager Linda, structural engineer Steve & archaeologist Tom. Superstars!

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Anna Keay

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5 years

Such a rare survival. The sparse simplicity of Guyhirn Chapel, Cambs blt 1651-1660. @TheCCT . This was what much worship was like during the Commonwealth & Protectorate. Complete with Puritan hat pegs. A little time machine.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

2 years

Just another hum-drum day looking at prospective buildings for @landmarktrust . Unchanged late medieval parish house, used for church meetings/festivities. Everything lovely, the massive roof structure, the lovely old furniture, the dry woody smell, the light.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

3 years

Mavisbank, designed by William Adam, 1725. Every time I visit I wonder if it will still be standing. If this masterpiece of British art were a painting abt to be sold, rather than a building about to collapse, would we have let it come to this?

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Anna Keay

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3 years

A lovely feature of many of King’s Lynn’s merchants’ houses, a built-in bootscraper at the front door. Neat.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

5 years

Really incredible surviving 14th-century wall paintings in a chamber at the east end of Norwich Cathedral. Built to house holy relics. What must it have been like when church interiors were all like this?

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Anna Keay

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1 year

Thrilled to be joining the boys on @TheRestHistory to talk about Interregnum Britain / #TheRestlessRepublic . Feeling slightly starstruck already, as I have loved TRIH from day one. ⭐️

Tom Holland

@holland_tom

1 year

“He had been a warm & demonstrative father when his own offspring were growing up, showing & telling them of his love at ever opportunity.” Parenting tips from Oliver Cromwell… (From @AnnaLandmark ’s Restless Republic, which I HEARTILY recommend.)

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Anna Keay

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2 years

It’s easy to forget that a huge Tudor royal palace still stands in the middle of London: #StJamess Palace. Charles I spent the night before his execution here &, in an obscure room in March 1660, the terms for the Restoration of the monarchy were set.

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Anna Keay

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7 years

Isn’t this brilliant? The Norman monster font at South Wootton Church, Norfolk.

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Anna Keay

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3 years

On my way home from a terrific weekend at @landmarktrust Coed y Bleiddiau. The cottage has never seen a car - it’s accessible only by steam train or on foot. It has its own platform (the UK’s smallest?) and gorgeous hand-printed curtains. @festrail

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Anna Keay

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2 years

Shipped not flown - apologies

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

1 year

A box of #TheRestlessRepublic stolen from the delivery guy by thieves and subsequently seized by the police from a crime den. Returned today by the excellent officers of #kingslynn police. Who knew history was so hot??

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1 year

Norwich is pretty much unbeatable as a medieval city. All the more remarkable given the lack of local building stone. Here lovely St Peter Mancroft, mid-15th century, where lumps of split/knapped flint make the black element of ‘flushwork’ decoration.

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Anna Keay

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1 year

Amazingly it was found Dec 1988 thanks to rescue archaeology done by the Dover Archaeology Group in advance of housing development. Now in @britishmuseum .

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Anna Keay

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3 years

I am thrilled, at long last, to announce that my new book is done and will be published by @WmCollinsBooks on 3 March. Cover just finalised - what do you think? (The clue to what it all means is nestling in the tree…) Available to preorder now.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

5 years

With the wonderful Michael Hinchcliffe at the awesome Hargreaves foundry in Halifax. Brake disks becoming part of #bigben . Hooray for British industry!

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

3 years

Beautiful Ballachulish slate roof just relaid by my sister and brother in law. There’s nothing like trying your hand at traditional crafts to make you admire the professionals even more #newskills #westhighlands #slate

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Anna Keay

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6 years

The Red Mount Chapel, King's Lynn - is there anything quite like it? Octagonal chapel built 1485 on the last leg of the pilgrimage route to Walsingham. Ingeniously designed inside & out. Buttresses all have openings - for lanterns to guide the pilgrims in?

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

4 years

No bike ride tonight as need to mow the lawn. So I bring you the stone sundial on our brick tower instead. The building is c1570 but I really don’t know about the dial. Any suggestions? Extraordinary to think about life before clocks became the norm.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

2 years

Why do new train stations have to be so hard and bleak? All they seem to comprise is high walls, spikes, acres of metal & concrete - inhuman and windblown. On my journey this am: Cambridge North, billed as ‘a thing of sparkling beauty’ (!?), 2017, & King’s Lynn, 1870.

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Anna Keay

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3 years

It’s official! @LandmarkTrust is the top holiday cottage provider in the UK (AND we’re a charity that rescues and repairs beautiful old buildings.) Thank you @WhichUK , we’ve had a hard year and this has been a real boost.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

6 days

#Mavisbank in beautiful sunshine this morning, as 50 years of campaigning finally secures its future. So many people have worked for this for so long. Now for the hard work and the skills to stitch this old beauty back together. 🙏🎉💪 @mavisbanktrust @HistEnvScot @midgov

The Landmark Trust

@LandmarkTrust

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📢 #MavisbankHouse to be saved! Thanks to a major grant of £5.3m from the #NationalHeritageMemorialFund and following 10 years of effort by Landmark, we are overjoyed to announce that we can now rescue one of Britain's most important buildings at risk:

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1 year

Despite what you might think, many beautiful houses were built by #Roundheads , & #1650s a decade of rebuilding. Here #Wisbech Castle, 1658-60, erected for the republic's most senior civil servant, John #Thurloe , designed by Inigo Jones's pupil Peter Mills. #therestlessrepublic

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

4 months

Corner to corner with my Pa at @Waterstones Piccadilly.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

4 years

Now this is BIG news. Together with our pals @HistEnvScot we have been working on a project to save magnificent #mavisbank nr Edinburgh. We are thrilled to be in the handful invited to apply to @HeritageFundUK £5m+ scheme. We’re not there yet, but a huge step forward!

The Landmark Trust

@LandmarkTrust

4 years

We are thrilled to be invited to apply with @HistEnvScot for a @HeritageFundUK Heritage Horizon Award, before time runs out for #Mavisbank , Scotland's first Palladian villa. Learn more: #HeritageHorizonAwards #NLHF

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Anna Keay

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4 years

In glorious Manchester today visiting this modest 1830 terrace, which is only the world’s very first passenger railway station. Yes! What a building. What a city. #manchester

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Anna Keay

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1 year

Crikey! Utterly delighted to be @ST_Culture history book of the year 2022. @dcsandbrook I suspect you had a hand in this - thank you, from a devotee of the the best of all podcasts @TheRestHistory @WmCollinsBooks

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Anna Keay

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4 years

The noble South Gate to King’s Lynn blt 1437 by London mason Robert Hertanger. Stone on the front, brick on the back. Happily it still serves its original purpose - Hertanger having the foresight to design it to fit a double decker bus neatly underneath.

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Anna Keay

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1 month

Ely. Named after the many eels and home to one of the most (in)famous of all Englishmen.

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Anna Keay

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2 years

Why have I never been to #BirminghamMoorStreet ? What a marvellous station! As human-scale and characterful as New Street is disorientating and impersonal. Plus: top independent cafe serving tea & cheese toasties. Perfect! Bravo @RailwayHeritage

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Anna Keay

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12 days

The @LandmarkTrust is a charity that rescues blgs then lets them for holidays; we have to compete with super commercial cos eg Airbnb. Its not easy. We are so thrilled to again be judged the UK’s no 1 holiday cottage operator by @WhichUK Remember: each booking =>buildings saved

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Anna Keay

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4 years

The plain, lovely Magdalen Almshouses, Gaywood, blt 1649 after their medieval predecessors were torched during the 1643 siege of Kings Lynn. More Dutch gables. I wonder if there were any windows on this front originally - these look rather random.

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Anna Keay

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4 years

Hear hear! Madness that the state actually incentivises the demolition of old buildings rather than their repair and reuse. Wrong on so many counts.

Historic England

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4 years

We are calling for VAT rates for refurbishment to be reduced, to incentivise the much more sustainable option of reusing existing buildings. Find out more: #HeritageCounts

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Anna Keay

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3 years

Passed a classic piece of #kingslynn continuity on my way to the bike shop this morning. Lovely late 16th/early C17 house on the Saturday Market Place given socking sash windows in the 18th century. Little remnant of earlier windows still peeks from the pavement.

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Anna Keay

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6 years

The fabulous, v rare, terracotta tomb of Henry Bedingfeld in Oxborough Church, c1520. Now covered in plastic sheeting & buckets because someone has stolen the lead off the roof. Words fail me.

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Anna Keay

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3 years

A gingerbread cottage without the witch: @LandmarkTrust Bush Cottage which I visited on Friday. Alone in glorious Shropshire countryside without a house / telegraph pole / mobile phone mast in sight. Lucky people spending the week in such a ridiculously romantic place.

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1 year

Look at this beauty! A great 17th-century fireplace just revealed at our latest @LandmarkTrust project, grade 1 listed Calverley Old Hall nr Leeds. Brilliant site visit with our fabulous (& mostly female) project team.

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4 years

This is my favourite after-work chore. Not sure if it’s healthy to take such pleasure in making a neat pile of logs.

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3 years

Perfect 18th-century security door, Nelson Street #kingslynn in early morning sunshine.

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5 years

I trudged the length of Oxford St in the sleet, searching every bastion of British retail for PJs for my 10 yr old daughter. Wall to wall princess, fairy and unicorn onesies. Gender equality/empowerment may be talk of the town but it’s absolutely nowhere on the high st.

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1 year

Excellent diagram by Mrs S Guy of movements required to make Afternoon Tea in a proposed house in Yorkshire. Travel distance of 350 feet apparently. Shows how seriously the architect, Barry Parker, took such things.

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Anna Keay

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5 years

It’s official! @landmarktrust restoration of the Welsh hall house #LlwynCelyn is the conservation project of the year! So thrilled & grateful to everyone who played a part in putting this precious place back together.

RICS

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5 years

👏 Congratulations to Llwyn Celyn, Abergavenny, winner of the Building Conservation category Judges commended the outstanding quality of craftsmanship and its sensitivity, using local contractors and materials. @LandmarkTrust @InsallArch #RICSawards

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1 year

One of the best bits of London ‘restoration’ of the last few decades, #TempleBar . The only surviving gate into the city of London. Erected in the reign of Charles II, dismantled 1878, and re-erected near #StPaulsCathedral in 2004. Sparkly in the frost.

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Anna Keay

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9 months

Two extraordinarily rare mid-16th-century wall paintings in adjoining rooms in Dean’s Yard, Westminster. I love the rich, confident Tudor black & gold, with ‘grotesque’ beasts. Envy the person whose desk is alongside …

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Anna Keay

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11 months

In #Antwerp on the trail of English Tudor cloth merchants. This fabulous brick merchants’ palace was built for the van Liere family - shown here feasting - then became ‘The English House’ the HQ of the Merchant Adventurers.

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Anna Keay

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2 years

Just lovely yesterday to happen on this survivor of Henry VIII’s England: the market cross at North Walsham, Norfolk. Built around 1540 and reminiscent of lost Tudor palaces like Nonsuch. #tudor #norfolk

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Anna Keay

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1 year

Hair & makeup have finished with me and I’m all set to go…

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

4 years

Extraordinary ‘pomade chest’ given to Oliver Cromwell c1656 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Inside little jars of scented unctions and ointments, with their beautiful silk caps still intact. Shows quite a different side to the warty old soldier... @MuseumCromwell

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

1 year

Today I’m having a Letchworth love-in. The world’s first garden city founded 1903 to improve urban life by combining the best of town and countryside. Broad boulevards, fountains, gardens, avenues of trees.♥️

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

4 years

Fantastic to be back on site for the first time in 3 months. Seeing progress and talking paint colours at @LandmarkTrust restoration project at the #Semaphore Tower, Surrey. Roll on the day when Landmark guests can revel in this magnificent rooftop view.

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Anna Keay

@AnnaLandmark

9 months

How about joining us & working for the wonderful @LandmarkTrust ? We are looking for a real lynchpin: Head of Visitor Services. Wide-ranging with lots of fabulous buildings & people to look after. Is this you, or someone you know? Pls share. 🙏 🏰

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