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A highly detailed photo of a field mouse snuggled up asleep inside a purple and yellow flower.

I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹

Somewhere on earth.
Good morning

Chance school room

Photo of chance school room at chance glassworks West Smethwick this is going to be there new home. Photo taken in 2017 i have ancestors who worked at the glassworks
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#ChanceGlassworks
#WestSmethwick
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Dudley castle

Dudley castle

Giraffe

Flamingo

Yesterday went to Dudley zoo and castle
#dudleyCastle
#dudleyZoo

Easter greeting with flowers and a country scene

Happy Easter! This pretty, peaceful greeting card was sent to my husband's uncle in 1914.

A Siamese cat in four different poses, three are pencil sketches and the central one is in ink or watercolour

Study of a cat
Tunnicliffe was fascinated by the cat of a family friend and would often sketch it on visits

Artist; CF Tunnicliffe

Childs Ercall church with a daffodil

Photo of Childs Ercall church with a daffodil
#childsErcall
#shropshire
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Artemis II astronauts prepare to leave Earth’s orbit and head towards the moon Nasa mission enters its second day, with crew hoping to become first people to get close to the moon in 50 years Four astronauts are preparing to leave Earth’s orbit and slingshot towards the moon as Nasa’s Artemis II mission enters its second day. The high-stakes 10-day voyage will mark the first time humans leave space close to Earth and return to the vicinity of the moon in half a century. It is a crucial test of Nasa’s ambition to land humans back on the lunar surface this decade, and stay there permanently. Continue reading...

Artemis II astronauts prepare to leave Earth’s orbit and head towards the moon

Church Preen

Standing guard throughout the centuries - here’s the ancient yew tree at Church Preen, with Wenlock Edge seen in the distance. This #Shropshire giant measures around 23ft in circumference and it’s said that 21 people once squeezed inside its hollow trunk. The tree is at least 1,500 years old and...

A grassed cemetery, with the image focusing on a shared headstone and four footstones. Each of the footstones has a bunch of daffodils.

A brick-built railway station building, with canopy over the platform, stands behind a group of people. Railway tracks are to the fore.

Today families, the local community & the rail industry gathered at #Wilmcote, #Warwickshire, to remember the lives of:

William Bonehill
Edward Sherwood
George Booker
Lewis Washburn

They died #OnThisDay 1922 in an accident.

They now have permanent memorials at the station.

Historic library rebuilt brick by brick at Black Country Museum A Victorian library moved brick by brick to Black Country Living Museum opens its doors to visitors.

Woodside Library which was gifted to the people of Dudley by the Earl of Dudley has opened at the Black Country Living Museum after being dismantled brick by brick & moved from its previous site in 2018. 👇
Historic library rebuilt brick by brick at Black Country Museum
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Volunteers plea to 'help put photos on graves of these young men' Volunteers at a Dutch war cemetery are trying to trace relatives of 16 North West soldiers buried there.

Do you have photos of these WW2 soldiers? #manchester #salford #cheshire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Road mending spon lane bridge

Postcard for West Smethwick, one of my one place studies road mending Spon Lane
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Lyndal Roper: ‘Drastic’ cuts to UK humanities risk brain drain Newly crowned winner of Holberg Prize raises alarm over job losses and shuttering of courses across UK

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country."

Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends Hedgehogs’ habitat is shrinking, they’re vulnerable to cars, and pesticides are affecting their food supply. Here’s how we can help them pull through

Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends

A gorgeous carpet of blue and purple blooms in Cambridge this morning 😍

Monument at West Bromwich Cemetery for West Bromwich Workhouse

Monument to West Bromwich Workhouse at West Bromwich Cemetery
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Still-life painting of a loose bunch of purple violets with heart-shaped green leaves spilling from a small cream earthenware jug decorated with blue pastoral scenes. The jug sits on a pale surface against a warm beige background, painted in Anne Cotterill’s soft, expressive brushstrokes.

“Go a-mothering and find violets in the lane” is an old saying tied to the custom of gathering violets for Mothering Sunday, #MothersDay in the UK, kept on the fourth Sunday of Lent, three weeks before Easter.

To celebrate mothers everywhere, violets painted by Anne Cotterill. 💜

A rook returns with a twig to its untidy nest high up in a tree. Other rooks mob an intruder nearby.

“Rooks are gathered in their rookeries, rebuilding the nests of last season”
Artists: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

Ruskin pottery

Vase 1925 Ruskin pottery

Photos of Ruskin Pottery they were based on Oldbury Road West Smethwick. Part of my one place study

#westSmethwick
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Old Photograph South Platform Railway Station Perth Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of South Platform in the railway station in Perth, Perthshire. Was originally the terminus of the main line from Greenhill Junction near #Glasgow tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2020/01/old-...

#birmingham

Tram view Stockland Green Birmingham

Hopefully of interest, today, this month & every month: pls share the word about Britain's first railwaywomen track workers, over 100yrs ago! #InternationalWomensDay

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Dewsbury railway station, W. Yorks dates from 1848. Built in Tudor style for the London & North Western Railway Company. Next door to the station entrance is the former office building or station master's house clad in ivy which has been the West Riding pub since 1994 & part of the 'Ale Trail'. /1

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Stokesay Castle

Probably my favourite view of Stokesay Castle, I like how it sits among the fields. The name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word stoches, meaning cattle farm. You can start a walk from the Discovery Centre taking in the castle, Stoke Wood and Sallow Coppice. A good way to spend the day. #Shropshire