A bottle of ‘The Sexton’ Irish Single Malt Whiskey and a whiskey glass with some whiskey in it.
Why yes, I will have one. Thanks for offering…
#whiskey or #whisky, take your pick.
Remembering Tom Walshaw, who died on this day in 1918, aged 19. Tom served with the 1st Batt. Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action in France. Commemorated on the family gravestone at Lister Lane Cemetery.
www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk/tomwalshaw
Nothing's a given. Question everything. Look at the original records (or an image) for yourself. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (credit to Sir A. C. Doyle)
It's the only way.
Ha, I had to look at Google maps aerial view and you can still see which section I replaced, the slates are still a different, newer shade to the remainder of the roof:
tinyurl.com/48bz6epx
Just to the left of centre you can see the gable end of a mill building which I'm pretty sure used to be Upper Mill on Bridge Road. Way back in the day (over 30 years ago) I repaired a whole section of that roof which had been ripped off in a gale. Took me three (wind free and sunny) days to fix it.
The life of Adelaide Springett, a child of Victorian London.
Behind one photograph is a story of loss, poverty, trauma, and survival against the odds.
If we’re to understand history, we have to remember lives like hers.
#SocialHistory #VictorianLondon
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A large British cruiser in a harbour at Malta in 1940 or 1941. Behind is a land spit with buildings and in the distance a heavy sea and the horizon.
A poor quality newspaper image of a seaman in uniform. It's a head and shoulders image and his sailor's cap is pushed back on his head.
Able Seaman Eric Birtwhistle of Cross Roads, killed in action when HMS Gloucester was sunk off Crete in 1941. He's named on the St James Church WW2 roll of service in the village:
menofworth.org.uk/eric-birtwhi...
Still time to catch the 'South coast's forgotten railway workers' exhibition!
At the Portsmouth History Centre, Central Library, Guildhall Walk - until 25 April!
Oops, my apologies. His ship was sunk on the way from the US. It's another man, Seaman Eric Birtwhistle (next up in these WW2 posts) whose ship was sunk off Crete...
Part of the Portsmough War Memorial with two statues of seaman, on lookout on each side of an engraved stone panel. The inscription reads: 1914 - 1918. 1939 - 1945. All These Were Honoured in Their Generations and Were The Glory of Their Times.
Just added another WW2 man's story to the Cross Roads, St James Church roll of service.
Able Seaman Joseph Askam was killed when his ship was sunk off Crete.
Lost at sea, he’s named on the Portsmouth War Memorial. Read more about him here:
https://menofworth.org.uk/joseph-askam/
Part of the Portsmough War Memorial with two statues of seaman, on lookout on each side of an engraved stone panel. The inscription reads: 1914 - 1918. 1939 - 1945. All These Were Honoured in Their Generations and Were The Glory of Their Times.
Just added another WW2 man's story to the Cross Roads, St James Church roll of service.
Able Seaman Joseph Askam was killed when his ship was sunk off Crete.
Lost at sea, he’s named on the Portsmouth War Memorial. Read more about him here:
https://menofworth.org.uk/joseph-askam/
After recently adding the various war memorials from the Lees, Bocking and Cross Roads area to our website, I felt I had to add the tragic story of Corporal Jack Taylor, killed in an accident in May 1945, just ten days after VE Day: menofworth.org.uk/jack-taylor/
I didn't know you were on Artemis...
Just added a couple of press clippings to my article "Was your soldier a policeman before or during the Great War?" See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/was-your-sol... #ww1 #genealogy
Awe inspiring. I have a strong memory of coming to the bow of the Konig and looking down it towards the seabed, which was too dark to see actually. Konig was upside down on the seabed of course so we were looking up it really. Felt like a football pitch sized steel hull, you couldn't see across it.
Dived all the remaining wrecks about thirty years ago. We spent a terrific fortnight up at Scapa.
Driver Garib Aladid, 1st Mule Corps. died this day in 1915 and is buried in Brookwood Cemetery, #Woking, Surrey. Lest we forget. #CWGC #wargraves #EOHO
Latest article added to the Long, Long Trail is "RGA Gunner gassed at Mailly-Maillet". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/rga-gunner-g... #ww1 #genealogy
Latest article added to the Long, Long Trail is "The Fifth Army School of Musketry and “Carey’s Force”". See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-fifth-ar... #ww1 #genealogy #mgc
We also talked with John @badsocialism.bsky.social about African American troops in Britain. The insane mental gymnastics the US army has to go through to continue segregation and Jim Crow laws in a country where officially there’s no segregation laws.
Check it out here linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar
Does he sound a little bit familiar? Because that actor is Burgess Meredith. He played the Penguin in the Batman TV series alongside Adam West and Burt Ward’s Batman and Robin.
Great Western Railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War #WW1 #GWR
George Harris (Relaying labourer Stourbridge Jct)
Able Seaman HMS Good Hope
The ship was lost (with all hands) on 1/11/14 during the first major naval battle ‘Coronel’ off the coast of Chile.
Harris was 34
Great Western Railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War #WW1 #GWR
Ernest Albert Parker (Carriage Cleaner Old Oak Common)
Able Seaman HMS Cressy RN
Cressy was one of three Naval ships sunk by German submarine U9 on the 22 Sept 1914. He is Remembered on Chatham Naval Memorial
These black and white pegs were for marking each attempt. IIRC black was for a correct colour in the wrong hole and white was for the correct colour in the right hole.
I loved playing back in the day and if I see this game for sale in a second hand shop I'll definitely be buying it!
An early colour photograph of mine (note the pre-decimal currency) and one where the exposure left a lot to be desired. What it lacks in technique, it makes up a little for in atmosphere and in the light from the windows of that cathedral of commerce, Halifax's Borough Market.
On this day 1st April 1918 the forming of the Royal Air Force.
"Without any formal inauguration the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps became merged into one body under the title of the Royal Air Force.
#OTD #RAF #RFC #RNAS #RoyalAirForce
I haven’t checked the old maps yet but Prescott Street is crossed by Wellington Street and I think that’s probably where the drill hall was located back then.
I suspect the Halifax Courier may have had a column for their local VB.
The Keighley VB had their own small column in the weekly newspaper Keighley News and one day I hope to find a mention of this trophy being awarded with, hopefully, names of the winners!
Thank you. The group photo in our earlier post with the round shield appears to be for a shooting competition and all the men except the enlisted man (Sergeant Major?) have little shooting medals. The SM has an army marksman’s badge and we suspect he was the adjudicator?