#penrith — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #penrith, aggregated by home.social.
-
Sitting area at the Pullman Sydney Penrith #pullmansydneypenrith #pullman #accor #allaccor #penrith #sydney #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram
-
Giants Grave, Penrith, Cumberland, c.1920s - Dr Trenkler Postcard
-
I'm all for arts festivals including food as a focus of their exhibitions 😋
And it looks like the 2026 NSW Biennale will deliver:
"The Biennale will expand its footprint in Western Sydney this year, including Penrith Regional Gallery for the first time and bringing back Campbelltown Arts Centre. There will also be public programs across inner city and greater Sydney, including Centenary Square in Parramatta, Fairfield City Museum & Gallery and Redfern Town Hall. White Bay Power Station, a popular addition to the Biennale last year, will this year feature large-scale sculptural and installation works by artists including Nikesha Breeze (US) and painter Nancy Yukuwal McDinny (Garrwa/Yanyuwa).
...
"Highlights announced on Tuesday include a giant functioning clay oven at White Bay Power Station in Rozelle, created by Argentinian sculptor Gabriel Chaile, which will be activated for the Biennale’s opening weekend and at key moments through the festival to serve visitors Peruvian cuisine. Also for food lovers is a large vat of tabbouleh, created by Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh as part of a community-based performance in Granville.
"The Biennale will also include a rare presentation of the landmark 80-square-metre Ngurrara Canvas II, made by the Ngurrara artists of the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia in support of their 1996 native title claim. The spectacular painting, created by more than 40 artists, toured Australia in the decade after it was created and has been exhibited internationally – but its Biennale presentation, at the Art Gallery of NSW, will be its final outing before returning to the artists’ country permanently."
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/feb/03/sydney-biennale-2026-hoor-al-qasimi-unveils-expansive-program-for-25th-edition
#art #arts #NSW #Sydney #Campbelltown #Parramatta #Penrith #food #Granville #ausart #ausarts #auspol -
Attempted and successful library tourism in Edinburgh and Northern England
Beyond the NLS, Scotland has various libraries within the country. There’s over twenty public libraries in Edinburgh alone. The day after I visited the NLS, I traveled to Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RGBE) by bus. This garden is akin to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. It has a beautiful plant collection, and a special library. However, the library isn’t accessible from the garden, a clear barrier to entry. Furthermore, the science, learning and archives section is only accessible by appointment. That is too bad. If it had been accessible from the garden I may have visited it. There are museums and various collections within the garden as well. Every plant has a specific identifying number associated with it.
Note: This serves as the beginning of my series, which begins, chronologically, with my guest post on Reel Librarians, on February 11th, entitled “Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland: Library tourism redux.” It will be reposted on here over a month later. There will be two more parts of this series, focusing on my continued library tourism in London and Belgium coming later this year. Links to those will be added to this post later.
The RGBE website describes the library as providing the “basic tools” to support research and organization of biodiversity into a “manageable framework to underpin ecological and biological research.” This makes it even more unfortunate that the “extensive” library, said to be the Scottish national reference collection for “specialist botanical and horticultural resources” with over one million items, cannot be accessed from the garden itself. A pamphlet purchased for two pounds says directly: “no access from Garden,” putting this barrier into writing.
Photograph of part of a pamphlet noting that the RGBE library cannot be accessed from the garden (My photograph)The second part of my vacation involved staying one week at HF Holidays’ Derwent Bank house, which sits on Derwent Water lake, to hike throughout the acclaimed and well-known Lake District, in Cumbria. Some of the hikes were arduous, although that might not be the case if you were physically fit, unlike myself, who wasn’t as fit as other hikers. I wanted to hike there as it was blazing hot in Baltimore, where I live. Other hikers were primarily from England and the Netherlands. The hikes often involved going through sheep grazing areas, avoiding sheep poop in the process, with beautiful views, and a visit to the Castlerigg Stone Circle.
On the fifth day of hiking, on July 31st, the coach bus I was riding in, with fellow hikers passed by the Keswick library. It looked to be one big room filled with desktop computers. Further research indicated that this library offers printing, loanable dementia bags and storysacks, hearing aid batteries, and more. It’s located off the town’s main street, with some nearby parking lots (they call them “car parks” in England), plus a bus station 200 yards from the library. It also hosts board games, a Lego club, jigsaw puzzle building, mindful coloring, books to help with well-being and health, and more.
Lastly was a bookshelf almost akin to the Little Free “Library” collections in the U.S. (but without serving a physical manifestation of a “desire to privatize the world”), at the Penrith train station. See you at the next post, where my journey continues, in London!
© 2025-2026 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.
Sources used
- “Derwent Bank Lake District,” HF Holidays, 2025.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Blogposts, fictional archives, Ancestry’s monopoly on federal records, the Little Free “Library” deception, powerful ICJ decisions, and the DNC’s sidelining of pro-Palestinian voices,” History Hermann, 3 Sept. 2024.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Here’s four photos I took from my third-floor room at the Derwent Bank house of @hfholidays.co.uk on August 1st, the last day I was there, looking down at the beautiful garden, and down across the Derwent Water lake to the beautiful landscape across the lake. I revised the image slightly from the original using an Instagram filter on here. I only stayed for a week, and this was only the second part of my trip (the first part was going to #edinburgh) but I throughly [sic] enjoyed my time there, even if the hikes could be rigorous at times,” Instagram, 9. Aug. 2025.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Photos of the Castlerigg Stone Circle which I took on July 28th, a place also known as the Druids Circle. I used some photo tools on here to make these images even better and pop out more, as the originals were rather dark. #castleriggstonecircle,” Instagram, 9. Aug. 2025.
- “Keswick Library,” Cumberland Council, 2025.
- “Libraries,” City of Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Library & Archives,” Longwood Gardens, 2025.
- Miline, Simon. “Why our work matters,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Our History,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Penrith (North Lakes) (PNR),” National Rail, 2025.
- “What We Do,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
#CastleriggStoneCircle #castleriggstonecircle #Cumbria #DerwentBank #Edinburgh #England #gardens #HFHolidays #Keswick #LakeDistrict #lakes #libraryTourism #LongwoodGardens #maps #memory #museums #NationalLibraryOfScotland #Penrith #publicTransit #ReelLibrarians #restrictions #Scotland #shortBlogs
-
Multiview, Penrith, Cumberland, c.1930 - Reeds Postcard
https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/multiview-penrith-cumberland-c-1930-reeds-postcard-223519287.htm
-
Multiview, Penrith, Cumberland, 1953 - Photoway RP Postcard
-
Just caught up with the #NRL match from this morning, and another game that went right down to the final few minutes. We're being spoilt with these exciting #RugbyLeague games this year. Not the result we wanted, unfortunately, as my wife picked #Penrith as her team to follow many years ago, but it was a close-run thing.
-
CW: anti-suicide awareness / advocacy event
The Cumbrian leg of the Baton of Hope suicide prevention and awareness campaign is this Sunday, with stops in Cleator Moor, Whitehaven, Penrith and Carlisle (castle and Brunton Park).
See https://www.batonofhopecumbria.co.uk/
#batonofhopeuk #Cumbria #CleatorMoor #Whitehaven #Penrith #Carlisle
-
Steel Beam Arrives at Clifton Bridge Site http://dlvr.it/TMThFX #Clifton #Network #NetworkRail #Penrith
-
Steel Beam Arrives at Clifton Bridge Site http://dlvr.it/TMThBV #Clifton #Network #NetworkRail #Penrith
-
Printed hand-tinted postcard showing Long Meg and her Daughters, a stone circle near Penrith in Cumberland. Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd, Dundee & London, Valentine's Series. Not numbered. Postally unused, but is c.1905-10.
#Penrith #LongMeg #StoneCircles #Postcards #StandingStoneSunday
-
Tilt-Shift Shots
Couple of aerial images run through tilt-shift effect.
Drone: DJI Flip
#lakedistrict #buildings #landscapephotography #photography #photographer #town #trees #river #penrith #urbanphotography #morning #dronephotography #aerialphotography #djiflip #TiltShiftPhotography
-
For anyone wondering, this film was only shot last year.
I live there.
True.https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-postman-plus-1970-online
😉
-
M6 railway bridge set to be replaced with railway and motorway closures planned http://dlvr.it/THH33c #Cumbria #Infrastructure #NetworkRail #Penrith
-
It’s always nice to brighten a rainy day with an #OSbenchmark 🙂 #Penrith #Cumbria
-
Congrats to Penrith, what a record. Despite losing to Melbourne twice in the season they arm wrestled their way to victory tonight nullifying Hughes and Munster, forcing Melbourne to only play defense, with almost no way to attack. Keeping Penrith to just 14 points was a hell of an effort though, they dominated every aspect of the game. Hell of a Grand Final. Proud of the Storm regardless, what a year it’s been.
#NRLGrandFinal #NRL #Melbourne #Australia #Penrith #NRLGF #RugbyLeague
-
What an intense first half of the #NRLGrandFinal. Penrith clearly dominating and if they were playing any other team they might have scored four or more tries. Their attacks have been relentless forcing so many more tackles from the Storm and limiting their movements. The 10-6 score line in Penrith’s favor reflects the toughness of the game. Melbourne looks spent already. We’ll see in the second half now
-
VIDEO: Network Rail helping adders thrive http://dlvr.it/TDmdW0 #Network #NetworkRail #Oxenholme #Penrith
-
VIDEO: Network Rail helping adders thrive http://dlvr.it/TDmc6L #Network #NetworkRail #Oxenholme #Penrith
-
Just arrived in #Penrith. I wish I felt more of a sense of achievement, but I’m exhausted. Today was supposed to be a 19 mile day. In the end I walked 24, and it wasn’t fun walking. I’ll celebrate tomorrow.
-
Final day on the #LadyAnnesWay. Also the longest, at 19.5 miles, although I will be taking an alternate route my guidebook recommends to avoid one long stretch of walking along the side of a river, which the last couple of days, after the rain, have been particularly awful. That might shave off a mile maybe? Want to savour the last of my walking today, but also looking forward to arriving in #Penrith this afternoon.
-
There were a lot of cool vendors but - being v focused on securing treats - I only captured Just Desserts & Bay #Fudge (both excellent) 🌱
+ the #AdoptDontShop t-shirts sold by Farplace, a no-kill #rescue which puts on #vegan festivals around the UK 🥰 🐾
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #Penrith #UKFood #BritishFood #Cake #Pie #Food #FoodPorn #Vegan #VeganFood #Veggie #Vegetarian #DairyFree #EggFree #EcoFriendly #Eco #LowCarbon #WhatVegansEat #Veganism #PlantBased #NonViolence #Dessert #PlanetFriendly
-
Cumbria Vegan Festival goodies! 🙌 🌱
inc the unmissable Farplace hotdog 🌭, quiches by a French chef 🇫🇷 & some top notch classic British desserts 🇬🇧 🍰 😍
Couple more shots below 👇
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #Penrith #UKFood #BritishFood #Quiche #Cake #Pie #Food #FoodPorn #Vegan #VeganFood #Veggie #Vegetarian #DairyFree #EggFree #EcoFriendly #Eco #LowCarbon #WhatVegansEat #Veganism #PlantBased #NonViolence #Dessert #PlanetFriendly #Local #SmallBusiness #Abolition #HotDog #Liberation #Justice #Donut
-
Useful study on Sydney Science Park Summer Air and Soil Temperatures 2023-24. This establishes a microclimate baseline of air and soil temperatures at former open farming land in #Penrith Municipality in western Sydney. This area will be subject to residential development, but the data will allow the developer to implement 40% tree canopy and urban heat mitigation strategies using blue-green infrastructure, climate responsive design and cool materials.
Recommendations:
1. Develop and action robust environmental monitoring strategy
2. Make SSP a ‘Sponge City’ to assist plant growth and cooling
3. Harvest stormwater for plant irrigation
4. Support good plant growth, ameliorate existing soils and keep topsoils cool
5. Use structural cells for optimal tree growth#ClimateCrisis #UrbanHeat #HeatMitigation #ClimateAdaptation #Sydney #UrbanPlanning
https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:76904/datastream/PDF/view