# @the.merl on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Daxcr06itBA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67728715-themerl-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/49c9127731.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14T12:04:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Museum of English Rural Life (@the.merl) — https://gondola.cc/the.merl

## Caption

Today is #SharkAwarenessDay. We don't have any sharks in the collection but we do have this absolutely enormous 36-foot ladder, which is so long that we have to display it on its side. And we think that's beautiful.

(MERL 2022/88)

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- **Likes:** 362
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- **Comments:** 9

## Tags

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