Cheshire Local History Association

More on the promontory fort at Helsby, #Cheshire - as mapped by the OS at the turn of the C19-20, and on a recent satellite view. The massive sandstone ridge is obvious even from above, & the earthworks visible to varying degrees, depending on land-use. #HillfortsWednesday

Mill Street Mission (Macclesfield) war memorial plaque.

Mill Street Mission (Macclesfield) war memorial plaque. The Silk Museum, Macclesfield, Cheshire. First World War. #LestWeForget

🪨🪓Neolithic polished basalt pointed end axehead. Possibly a ceremonial/prestige piece. Discovered in 1916 by a farmer ploughing a field in Bidston. Site is now built upon/urbanised. From the collection of Museum of Liverpool.
#MuseumMonday #Archaeology #Neolthic #Wirral
📷Own

Barlounge celebrate 25 years by raising £25,000 for local causes Barlounge, one of Chester’s most-loved bars, has marked its 25th anniversary with a year-long programme of charitable giving that saw the team complete 25 Acts of Kindness. Since opening its doors …

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Happy St David's Day! Photo by Judy Corbett, author, Gwydir Castle, ancient Welsh house in the Conwy Valley, in the foothills of Snowdonia.

A black and white photograph in portrait format. It shows a long range view of a wooded hill and Beeston Castle. In the foreground is a field with newly mown hay bales protected from the rain by being wrapped in shiny black plastic. Very old and very new in the same photograph.

Hay Bales
Hello Sunday! Here's a photograph of some hay bales wrapped in black plastic in a field near Beeston Castle, from 2021. Have a lovely day everyone!
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs #Cheshire #ClassicMono #rural #landscapephotography

Bright and breezy illustration of three daffodils painted on a simple, grey background

St David's Day
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi

Artist: H Woolley (1954)

Harpist and Daffodils
Happy St David's Day to those celebrating! Two great #postcards from the 1970s!
#StDavidsDay #Wales #harp #daffodils

Thanks to the wonderful @poisonchallis.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social for last night's fantastic launch event for 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' (HarperNorth).

Two partridges are visible on the rough hillside. Overhead a sparrow flies holding a feather to line its nest.

“After the snow has melted, western winds have brought mild weather, and when the sun shines many signs of springtime appear”

Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
‘What to Look for in Winter, 1959’

Two birds on an ivy covered tree stump on a dank winter day. I believe this was a design for an RSPB greetings card

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Nuthatch’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Curlews And Turnstones’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Large wooden double doors set into a grand doorway: Corinthian columns, pointed arch, detailed mouldings, etc. The word 'BANK' is engraved ion the stone lintel. Plants are starting to grow from the cracks, and the whole thing is behind a temporary security fence.

Main entrance to the former National Westminster Bank, Hardshaw Street, #StHelens. Built circa 1860, remodelled 1878 & altered inside when converted into a bar in the 1980s. Closed since 2015 and not in the best of health. GII listed.
#AdoorableThursday #Lancashire #GrimArt
📷 my own, from 2024.

In Cumbrian dialects, 'broc' is badger Badger is held in high esteem and 'brocan' means wise man. In lore, badgers protect against witchcraft and other evil entities

In Cumbrian dialects, 'broc' is badger

Badger is held in high esteem and 'brocan' means wise man. In lore, badgers protect against witchcraft and other evil entities

more: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/

#badgers #folklore #booksky
art: Lily Seika Jones

Final call to community for Festival of Ideas The Chester Festival of Ideas team is urging people across the community to seize the opportunity to showcase themselves and their work as the deadline to bring forward events for the exciting 2026…

Festival of Ideas appeal

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Happy Shropshire Day to all Salopians! 🎉🎉🎉

A black and white postcard in landscape format. It shows a group of men posing for a photograph at a Bowls game. Love that almost everyone is wearing a hat of some kind: boater, cap, bowler, fedora and top hat! In the background is a trellis screen and beyond the green are houses with trees. Looks like an affluent area of Manchester.

Crown Green Bowls
Hello Sunday! Here's a postcard from about 1900 of a bowling club in Manchester. Crown Green Bowls was a very popular game at that time. Many local parks and pubs had bowling greens. 😊
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGames #postcards #bowls

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsInTheirElement. A Common Swift hawking for insects over a reservoir in south #Cheshire, England.

A #Kodachrome from the early 1990s published in an article on birds flight.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #OlympusOM2N

#Photography #B&W #Cheshire #UK 800 year old #church

Photograph taken at the wonky Tudor masterpiece of Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire. Image shows marks carved into a wooden beam to ward off evil. Tudors were superstitious and believed that these apotropaic marks would keep away demons, witches and evil spirits.

Apotropaic Marks
for #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Wood

#EastCoastKin #photography #apotropaicmarks #witch #marks #charms #Tudor #LittleMoretonHall #Cheshire
(iPhone camera)

A walk this afternoon shooting only High Contrast Monochrome JPGs on the Q3 43, an experiment 🙂 (and in square as well!) Down by the River Weaver near Hartford - quite pleased with the results

#Leica #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #photography #Cheshire #river #squareformat

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOverWater. Thousands of wings over water as a section of a winter gull roost takes flight.

Photographed in south #Cheshire, England in the early 1990s on #Kodachrome.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PeacefulSolitude. A male Common Pochard taking it easy in south #Cheshire, England. Also a #WaterWednesday post.

Photographed in the mid 1990s on Fujichrome #Velvia.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

Photograph taken crouched down behind a clump of lovely pink cyclamen, looking towards the Tudor Masterpiece of Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire. Didn't think I'd manage the double whammy of historic house and signs of spring, but never say never! Deep blue sky with some winter tree skeleton branches at either side. In the centre of the top half of the frame is a largeTudor house (built between 1504 and 1610). Lots of elements of the house are wonky, mostly because the owners decided they wanted a bigger house so plonked on an additional storey...not the brightest idea and I imagine the architects at the time being at their wits end. Green lawn leading up to the house and at the bottom of the image a large clump of small pink cyclamen. On the right hand side is a group of two adults and a child heading towards the entrance. One of them is wearing a pink coat which echoes the flower colour well. Little Moreton Hall, and some others well managed by the National Trust, are starting to open their doors again after winter shut down for conservation work. This place had only been open a few days so visitors were giddy to be able to enjoy exploring again...the sunshine helped too!

Spring Reopening
for #PalacesAndGardens theme is #HistoricGardens.

#EastCoastKin #photography #cyclamen #spring #bluesky #Tudor #visitors #Cheshire #LittleMoretonHall #history
(iPhone camera)

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BranchBirds. A Redwing guarding the berries in a Holly tree.

A #ThrowbackThursday post photographed in south #Cheshire, England in the 1980s on #Kodachrome.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

Photograph taken looking along the deep oak windowsill of a long row of leaded glass windows at Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire. The Tudor hall was built in stages between 1504 - 1610. Image was taken in a room off the Long Gallery on the top most layer of the property. Monochrome filter used to focus on the shadows and pattern. Thick wood-framed windows, all tall rectangles, filled with clear leaded glass in a repeating pattern of diamond, lozenge and rectangle shapes. The windows are three layers tall and many more wide (only some caught in the image). Sunlight has created amazing shadow patterns on the wide windowsill from the leaded glass. The windowsill has been made with two oak boards for depth. Wonderful property to visit and run very well by the National Trust.

Shadows of History
for #ClassicMono
and #WindowsOnWednesday

#EastCoastKin #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #Tudor #C16 #C17 #leadedglass #shadows #surfacepattern #LittleMoretonHall #Cheshire
(iPhone camera)

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BranchBirds with the alternative theme of #Robins. A European Robin on a branch #ForJanet.

Photographed in south #Cheshire, England in the 1980s on #Kodachrome.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Redshanks Alighting’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Snowdrops and crocuses appear through light snow on rocky ground

“Snow has fallen again, as it will sometimes do in February”

What to Look for in Winter, 1959
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson

31 books laid out in a grid to show their front covers, ranging from Alfred the Great to Henry the eighth

The Ladybird Adventures in History books by Lawrence Du Garde Peach. For many of us they sparked a love of history