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Clay Hensley

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Time for a #throwback:

Fall 2016, wandering in Chelsea, here are scenes from Roxy Paine’s Thermoplastic Flux at Paul Kasmin. Roxy’s first exhibition devoted entirely to his works on paper.

#tbt #tbthursday #mappingmemory #cartography

September 18, 2026 at 6:55 AM

Δεινόσαυρος🇻🇳🇨🇺🇦🇴🇰🇵🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇷🇾🇪🇲🇿🇻🇪

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🗺️ Map of Palestine from 1769 | Charte von Palestina (Gttfr. Arn. Mass)
#Palestine #HistoricMap #Cartography #1769Map #CharteVonPalestina #PalestinianHistory #MapsOfPalestine #VisualHistory #CulturalHeritage #FreePalestine #MappingMemory

July 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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Happy #TrailsTuesday!

Experience #Liverpool in the 1950s with the #MappingMemory Baltic Triangle Trail.

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#OralHistory #BritishHistory #UKHistory #WalkingTours #Trails

May 26, 2026 at 11:22 AM

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Pictured: mobile kitchens outside of the Gordon Smith Institute For Seamen, #Liverpool.

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#BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory

May 17, 2026 at 12:42 PM

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"Dickie Bonds was the catering college, trained all the cooks, stewards and the waiters. All the posh people, well everybody in the know used to go there at lunch because you’d get a cheap lunch..."

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May 13, 2026 at 9:39 AM

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Pictured: Burnyeat, Dalzell & Nicholson Ltd in #Liverpool c1968.

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#OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory #Maps

May 4, 2026 at 8:41 AM

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Park Lane, #Liverpool, 1968. Courtesy of Liverpool Record Office.

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#OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory

April 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM

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Pictured: Bananas in a #Merseyside warehouse, #Liverpool, sometime in the 1950s.

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Image from the Maritime Archives and Library. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap

April 23, 2026 at 12:23 PM

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"One of the difficulties that faces a medical officer of health in a large city and port like #Liverpool, is that he is involved in so many activities and involved very closely with so many departments..."

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April 17, 2026 at 1:15 PM

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Pictured: C&A, #Liverpool, 1947.

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March 29, 2026 at 12:25 PM

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Pictured: The Liverpool Overhead Railway

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#Liverpool #LiverpoolDocks #UK #IndustrialHistory #Photography #GLAM

March 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM

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"Just about here on the Dock Road at Coburg Dock, there were massive granary buildings. They were of varying ages but were very high, concrete buildings where grain was offloaded from the docks..."

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March 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM

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Cooper's, #Liverpool, 1947. Courtesy of Liverpool Record Office.

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March 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM

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"Just about here on the Dock Road at Coburg Dock, there were massive granary buildings. They were of varying ages but were very high, concrete buildings where grain was offloaded from the docks..."

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Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap

February 21, 2026 at 12:46 PM

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Pictured: C&A, #Liverpool, 1947

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#Liverpool #OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory

January 31, 2026 at 12:29 PM

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Pictured: #Guinness barrels on the Lady Grania's maiden voyage from #Dublin to #Liverpool, 1953.

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January 2, 2026 at 11:31 AM

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"The proposal in the late 60s and 70s was to demolish the Albert Dock and build a large, what they called an Aquarius City..."

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#Liverpool #OralHistory #LiverpoolWaterfront

December 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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"The #Liverpool Overhead Railway was established in 1893 as the first electric railway in Britain, locally it was known as the Dockers' Umbrella..."

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#BritishHistory #UK