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Creaky clockwork collection at the Art Workers Guild 2025

What do strange scissors, miniature beds, creaky clockwork, novelty erasers, tools of the stuccatore and coffin photos all have in common?  They’re some of the thirty subjects of obscure enthusiasms who appeared, with their owners, one day recently in Bloomsbury … Continue reading

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Wildlife in London

Walking round London is always a delight, especially when you spot some of its wildflife … clockwork pigeons in the Museum of London shop, a flock of Elizabeth Frink sheep in Paternoster Square where real pigeons cheekily land on the … Continue reading

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Sally Kindberg’s visit to the House of Automata in 2019

Every thursday this month the House of Automata has taken us on fascinating virtual tours of their amazing world, but last year in 2019 the House of Automata was kind enough to let me visit their extraordinary headquarters in Scotland … Continue reading

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Sally Kindberg and robots

  This week to the London Science Museum‘s brilliant Robot exhibition full of mechanical delights as well as hoards of over-excited school children. Ate ‘nuts and bolts’ from a robot tub at the cafe and pondered artificial intelligence.  Will be going back.  Some … Continue reading

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