Living: The autumn bonfire.

Science with Peter debuts at the

Observer Organic Allotment blog.

Above painting: Autumn Leaves,

by John Everett Millias, 1856.

Living: The Turnabout Skirt, woven by

Pendleton, a family company since 1863.

Living: The Pendleton Board Shirt. Popularized

by the Beach Boys (formerly the Pendletones).

Still woven in Pendleton, Oregon, U. S of A.

Living: The V & A open a

permanent photography gallery.

Audio slideshow by Jim Powell.

Selling: Ancient Industries + AIUK's own

hot water bottle and hand knitted cover combo

in New York Club Monaco stores this week.

(Columbus Avenue and 57th Street).

The bakery next door "full of polite young

men in blazers (Uppingham School) forming an

orderly queue for jam tarts and Chelsea buns."

Walnut cake, a favourite among artistic types.

Battenburg cake "they do a very good one, much in demand."

"The non-twee tea shop with porcelain cups. And when

you turn over your tea cup you find a little piece of

shortbread waiting there."

Not self service.

Living: Baines vs Beans. For those not interested in

sitting

on high stools sipping syrup-infused coffee at

Beans,

there is

Baines

over the road in Uppingham, Rutland.

Established

as a confectioners by Pa Baines in 1867, his

great great granddaughter,

Kate Baines,

has brought

the

adjoining

tea

room

back to life.

Photographs and

reportage

from News From Nowhere.

Living:

Ancient Industries x Johnstons of Elgin

= Club Monaco this Christmas.

Ben Pentreath, 2011

Islington Council, 1967

Walter Sickert, 1929

Living: The Hanging Gardens of Islington.

Once considered the less desirable side of

Noel Road because of its generous

rat population.

Joe Orton outside 25 Noel Road, Islington

Illegal decoupage at 25 Noel Road

Exposed: Joe Orton + Kenneth Halliwell's

defaced library books on show at the

Islington Museum.

113 Willow Street, somewhat changed.

Poplar Street from Willow Street,

now the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

43-49 Willow Place,

unchanged.

Columbia Heights from Pierrepont Street,

re-built.

Living and extinct:

Changing New York, a Federal Art Project

by Berenice Abbott. All above photographs

taken in Brooklyn Heights in May 1936.

Endangered: Iris Hantverk,

providing employment to the

visually impaired since 1903.

Via Emma's Design Blogg,

available at Ancient Industries.

Silver Casket and Red leather Box, 1920

A Road Near Rottingdean, 1912

Rose Lustre, 1920

Snow in the Horseshoe, 1927

Living: Sir William Nicholson, 1872-1949,

with an exhibition and a catalogue raisonne.

.

Extinct: Fall fashion not

coming to a store near you.

Photo by Richard Rutledge, 1954.

Living: Jack o' lantern. Of obscure British and

Irish origin where lanterns were carved out of swedes,

turnips, and the mangelwurzel. The Pumpkin then provided

a more generous canvas for immigrants to the New World.

Embossed stickers available at Ancient Industries.