Still working on #TowerStreetLudlow - 16 buildings, not glamorous but persisting through the ages. Butcher, baker, grocer, clothes dealer, fancy goods, (men’s)hairdresser, at least 3 pubs ( sometimes 4) and the town gaol plus the remnants of one of the town’s medieval gates.
#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of two white-fleeced lambs, playfully head-butting each other near the top of a grassy bank. Part of a third lamb can be seen on the left side of the image. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
Playful lambs in my local #OnePlaceStudy back in April 2023 to kick off #OnePlaceWednesday! What places have ewe – sorry, you – been studying recently? Use the hashtag to post about any aspect of #OnePlaceStudies, that brilliant blend of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory, at any time today.
Do you know your argent from your gules? Whether or not you have noble ancestors, #heraldry is still intriguing. Join #WestMiddlesexFHS on Thursday 16 April and hear #AnnBallard speak on heraldry. Hybrid meeting on #Zoom or at #StJohnsCentre in Isleworth. Full details www.west-middlesex-FHS.org.uk
I never thought I would say this …… I am going to have to go back to a paper diary! I just seem to miss too many things using an electronic one! Maybe it’s because I ignore or silence my phone ???
#WestLondonLocalHistoryConference want to say a huge thank you to everyone at Saturday’s event. Wonderful audience, fantastic speakers, superb venue and committee members who seemed to have discovered the art of being in 2/3 places at once! See you next year
Are you looking for something to do this Easter after the Sunday lunch? Well look no further as we are open! We are free! We are warm and we have brilliant volunteers! Plus children’s activity sheet! Plus Professor Cockles and much more! Open 2-4pm. See you soon!
#LastChanceSaloon one week to go! If you want a ticket for #ShoppingIsNeverDone the 45th #WestLondonLocalHistoryConference then you need to get moving! A full day of talks on your favourite hobby!
Saturday 11 April , Duke Street Church Richmond. Tickets available from Ticketsource.co.uk
The joys of an attic! As a flat-dweller, I am deprived of such delights
Maps, glorious maps! It brings your ancestors to life when you realise they lived a three-mile hike across fields to get to church or school or work.
Newcastle & Gateshead 1894.
It is for the railways and her industries that this area was most famed for at the time of publication, and the transport arrangements between the towns and to the wider world would soon lead to the famous modern skyline...
External stairs, a remnant of the courtyard lodgings John Holand built for his retinue at Dartington Hall.
Architectural historian Anthony Emery suggests lodgings completed around the same time as the Great Hall, 1388- 1400.
#staircasesaturday #medieval
Short terrace of council housing to rear of treed, green open space
Three-storey block of council flats to rear of treed, green open space
My new post on Substack examines Lincoln's fine postwar Ermine Estate, built by a Conservative and Independent council but described by some as 'social democracy in action'. (Photo credits: @ianwaites.bsky.social)
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-ermine...
A stone Milecastle in upland country with a blue sky
#RomanFortThursday On a day we send humans back to the moon, another remarkable feat of human endeavour
The remains of Milecastle 39 on Hadrian's Wall, west of Sycamore Gap, part of the 73 mile frontier wall & accompanying forts & installations built by Roman troops 😮
📷 My own, May 2025
Love remembering how things used to be? Enjoy #Reminiscence? Buy a ticket for #ShoppingIsNeverDone. #WestLondonLocalHistoryConference - our 45th #Anniversary
Duke Street Church, 11th April. Tickets from Ticketsource.co.uk
How shopping has changed! The big stores have gone.
#ArdingandHobbs #Debenhams #DickinsandJones
Take yourself back to a happier time with #ShoppingIsNeverDone.
#WestLondonLocalHistoryConference is 45 and we are so proud!
11th April at #DukeStreetChurch Richmond. Tickets from ticketsource.co.uk
You can forget birthdays, dental appointments,taxing the car ….but don’t forget the WestLondonLocalHistoryConference on 11 April at #DukeStreetChurchRichmond. Tickets for #ShoppingIsNeverDone from www.ticketsource.co.uk
Did you ever wonder about the history of #Bentalls in #Kingston? Come along to the #WestLondonLocalHistoryConference on Saturday 11 April and find out. Tickets £15 from www.ticketsource.co.uk
Early warning for #WestMiddlesexFHS members. Thurs 19 March is not just about using #AI in family history, it is our AGM. Your annual chance to hear how the society is faring, our challenges and how we are meeting them.check our website www.west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk for full details. See you there
That is an impressive timescale! Liverpool must have been so different then.
Easter is not far off now! We have the perfect #EasterPresent for the shopaholic historian in your life.
A ticket for the #WestLondonLocalHistoryConference who are presenting “Shopping Is Never Done” in Richmond on Saturday 11 April.
Tickets from ticketsource.co.uk. But hurry!
Black and white photograph showing an older man with a pipe, hat, short sleeves shirt and protective trousers working in a forge with a fire to his left. From Reading Museum's Collection.
This 1955 photo shows blacksmith George Tibbetts in his Merchant's Place forge, off Friar Street, Reading
His family were smiths for generations, and the workshop itself dated back to the late 1500s. His son Tony was preparing to continue the family tradition
📸 Reading Museum, Chronicle Collection
I sympathise - Welsh borders , Davis/Davies and Jones! And as for tracking Hyland in 19th century Liverpool- let’s not go there.
I know I say this all the time but please support #LocalArchives and #NationalArchives - they often come off worst in the battle for public money. And they are vast #treasureshouses of knowledge.
My friend
the climatologist
tells me
what worries him
is the climate.
My friend
the epidemiologist
tells me
what worries them
are infections.
My friend
the historian
tells me
what worries her
are the people
who aren’t worried.
Console yourself with the thought that your transcription was done by a human interacting with human documents and not an AI bot that didn’t care. You have still done a great thing.👏
Some fantastic photos of Pevensey #Roman fort (especially the harbour gate arch) in this thread by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social for #Romanfortthursday 🤩👇👇
The pier also forms the backdrop to part of the #ArnoldBennett novel The Card. I love finding literary locations on walks - even minor ones. I drive friends mad by diving off down alleys in search of “that bench where So-and-So sat in ….”
We get so dependent on these things! I refuse to to have a computer controlled house. I still have books, dvds and cds and my #familyhistory to keep me out of mischief!
Do you think your family history is worth paying for? Quite shocked to hear of someone who said it should all be free and then added they didn’t care about it anyway. I could say the same about computer games or exotic holidays ! Maybe they’ll learn one day
