β¨Something from the Bronze Age. An ingot of copper and a piece of raw amber. Extensive global trade links were established in Prehistory. Luxury goods made from raw materials like these would have been owned by the elite as markers of status and prestige.
#FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Prehistory #Wirral
On a walk around #Conwy yesterday, I spotted something I hadn't noticed before. This magnificent #Gothic railway arch, built in 1840, through the #Medieval walls. It even continues the castellated parapet! Zoom in, and you can see where bits were chipped away as trains got bigger! #photograph #photo
Updates to Ancestry Ariège, Foix, France, Parish & BMD, 16th Century - 1911. Indre-et-Loire, France, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1506-1912. UK, Personnel of the Polish Air Force in Great Britain, 1940-1947 (in Polish). Hampshire, U.S., Warnings Out of Town, 1733-1809. Arkansas, U.S., Civil Appointments, 1819-1958.
@fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp
New for the UK Ancestry this week
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Index-only collection shows over 16,000 Polish aviators who served in GB during WWII, in Polish
Full details of all updates in screenshot with #AltText as usual
A black and white photograph in landscape format. It shows a rural scene of a slate art installation in a dry stone wall. The slate circle at the centre is made of vertical slices of slate and the outer rectangle is made of horizontal slices. The piece can be seen at Low Tilberthwaite, Cumbria.
Sheepfold Artwork, Cumbria
Hello! A mobile phone photo here of a wonderful outdoor art installation by Andy Goldsworthy from 2003. Love the juxtaposition of the orderly slate wall & the profusion of ferns & landscape beyond. Stunning!
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition #Cumbria #OutdoorArt
A collage titled βLeightonβs Legacyβ showing four images of Leighton Hospital. The top left image shows the hospitalβs original main reception hall with white pillars and seating areas. The top right shows an Accident and Emergency treatment area with hospital beds and curtains. The bottom left image shows a radiographer positioning a patient for an X-ray in the X-ray department. The bottom right image shows the modern glass-fronted main entrance of Leighton Hospital.
@fhsofcheshire.bsky.social is delighted to be involved in the πππ’π π‘ππ¨π§'π¬ πππ πππ² project alongside Cheshire Archives
Leighton's Legacy project is gathering the voices and stories that make Leighton so special
Find out more π fhsc.uk/library-head...
Marble Floor, Trafford Centre
Hello Monday! Am a bit late to the party today, been travelling home πHere is a plastic waste bin on a marble floor for #WeekJforJuxtaposition and the #AlphabetChallenge
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
πͺ¨πͺNeolithic 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
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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 GΕ΅yl 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.
βAfter the snow has melted, western winds have brought mild weather, and when the sun shines many signs of springtime appearβ
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
βWhat to Look for in Winter, 1959β
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
βNuthatchβ
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Other work by the Ladybird artists
βCurlews And Turnstonesβ
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
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In Cumbrian dialects, 'broc' is badger Badger is held in high esteem and 'brocan'Β 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'Β 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
Festival of Ideas appeal
thechesterblog.com/2026/02/24/f...
Happy Shropshire Day to all Salopians! πππ
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. π
#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
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A walk this afternoon shooting only High Contrast Monochrome JPGs on the Q3 43, an experiment π (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
