So The Masterplan is 30 years old today. Do you feel old yet?
BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events
And here’s another interesting chunk of Archivery via Period Sites in Period Browsers that doesn’t appear to be online anywhere else – A mid 1990s chronology of the BSE outbreak in the UK as published by the MAFF.
Continue reading “BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events”The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Mid October 2025
See more of the Middlecave work here!
And here’s mid-October’s update on the Middlecave Yard Demolition and rebuilt.
The site as seen from across Middlecave Road.
Continue reading “The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Mid October 2025”First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself
Quanta Magazine has a nice article on a question I’d not even thought about – can all shapes pass through themselves? And, apparently, the answer is ‘no’, but only for a very limited number of shapes.
The article is pretty good and breaks down the problem and its history quite nicely. Go read!
The Lonely Shore / BBC (1962)
The BBC archive has just thrown up this lovely little clip. Shot in 1962, this short Ken Russel piece can only be described as a post apocalyptic archeological report. It has good fun misidentifying various pieces of 60s paraphernalia and contains a couple of sly digs at archaeology’s propensity to call anything it doesn’t understand ’religious’.
It also has a few subtle hints as to the nature of this post apocalyptic world; there’s still no mass production, no knowledge of radiation, nor (given the ignorance of the electric fire) apparently, electricity. Indeed, destruction must have been almost total – no books, no photos, no pictures. Even no real oral history.
The BFI also has a nice article on The Lonely Shore here.
Saltburn Cliff Tramway – A Timelapse
Another short timelapse, this time from Saltburn and their lovely funicular tramway.
Gallery: 2025 Misc
It’s a Harvest Topper for Malton!
This blog’s slow descent into postbox topper fandom continues – this time with a nice ‘Harvest’ themed topper in Malton.
ChatGPT Atlas User Agent.
It looks like ChatGPT’s new browser is identifying itself as a bog standard Chrome instance. That should make it both hard to block and hard to track.
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"The ICT 1301 Resurrection Project
And now for something really rather fab to start your day off with – ICT 1301 resurrection project! Their goal is to restore the UK’s oldest 2nd Generation Electronic Stored Program Computer to functioning order.
They also have a lovely set of digitised technical manuals up to view!
Fab!
Wildfire In The North York Moors – A Detailed Account
The Moorland Association has an interesting breakdown of the events around the Langdale Moor fire in the North York Moors National Park. If you have any interest in what happened then it’s really worth a read.