From a visit today to All Souls Cemetery, Boothtown, Halifax.

Spring seems to be here in Halifax and that means it's time to remove the winter covers that protect our most vulnerable stones. Thanks to the team of willing volunteers who came out to assist. Preparations to open for the season are underway!

"Rocks and storms they will fear no more,
since landed on the other shore.
They’ve dropped the anchor, furled the sail,
and now they’re safe within the veil."

Captain James McMichen 1808 - 1856
died at Demerara.
#DysartCemetery #Taphophile #Inscription #AfterLife

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OR ship them to us for volunteers to plant in our cradle graves!
Ship to:
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#taphophile

They have this impressive coat of feathers with a trendy polka-dot mottle and yet the name emphasis is on their sharp shins?!

The barely and rarely seen shins of a sharp-shinned hawk...

I wonder how we got there?

Bees sleep between five and eight hours a day. They enjoy company and even hold each other's feet.

Four pictures of women wearing crape mourning hats, two with veils.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Latest Modes in Mourning Millinery, 1905

The amazing central tower at Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, North Yorkshire 🤩
Just look at the height of that arch (my friend Mel provides some scale)! Looking up within is this dizzying, but fantastic, view!

A sea of dandelions

Bee Heaven 🐝

Close-up of the headstone marking the grave of members of the Appleyard family buried at Lister Lane Cemetery. The inscription on the stone commemorates: Elizabeth Appleyard, wife of William Bennett Appleyard, who died 22nd June 1870, aged 41 years John Appleyard, son of the above, who died 16th November 1882, aged 29 years Emma Appleyard, wife of William Bennett Appleyard, who died 31st March 1887, aged 38 years William Bennett Appleyard, who died 22nd September 1904, aged 78 years.

Remembering Emma (née Nash), second wife of former dyer's crabber William Bennett Appleyard, who died on this day in 1887 at the age of 38.

#ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳

📍Aberglasney House 🌳

These yews are thought to have been planted in the 18th century by Robert Dyer.

The trees eventually grew tall enough to be bent over, forming an extended arch.

#Wales #History

Wonderful news!

She did not die very young. I think she was 52, born in 1644.

But in that time showed sufficient ingenuity and such great virtue that she has a well-placed plaque which we are talking about here today, 328 years later.

Hats off!

#MementoMoriMonday 💀

Wounded not Vanquished" ❤️

A rare example of a heart memorial brass ❤️

Brass heart monuments are extremely unusual, although more survive carved in stone.

📍St Mary's Church • Wedmore ⛪️

www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/index-of-bra...

#History

On this day in 2019 - a visit to the site of one of the sadest events in my lifetime - the cemetery and memorial at Aberfan South Wales - 23-03-2019 #photography #aberfan #southwales #cemeteries #memorials

St Michael and All Angels Church, Ledbury, Herefordshire. #monumentMonday #memorialMonday #mementomoriMonday

New IG Post:

St Cuthberts Cemetary and churchyard, Edinburgh ☀️ 🪦 #graveyard #edinburgh #sunny #headstones

www.instagram.com/p/DWL52GfDd0...

Thank you for the opportunity to start a list of such memorials

There are so very many I have encountered and many more yet to be appreciated

#StoriesFromCemeteries

These photos at Moycarky, Co. #Tipperary

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Close-up of a metal plaque on a stone base featuring four infants. The inscription on the memorial reads: In memory of all the children buried in unmarked graves.

A lovely memorial to children buried in unmarked graves at Edgerton Cemetery, Huddersfield.

People in a churchyard taking part in Love your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature citizen science initiative, recording wildlife in churchyards, chapel yards and cemeteries

Registrations for Love your Burial Ground Week with Churches Count on Nature are open

To register your event and find resources to help you plan, visit www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/about-love-your-burial-ground-week-with-churches-count-on-nature/

#cfga #churchescountonnature #citizenscience

#MementoMoriMonday from the churchyard of St Andrew, Leysters, Herefordshire.

Have you spotted the pretty pink flowers of Butterbur yet?🩷

This wonderful wildflower blooms before its leaves emerge, and can be seen now in wet meadows, streamsides & damp ditches.

Check out the images below for some fascinating facts, from how Butterbur got its name to historic home remedies!

2025 saw bumblebees bounce back from 2024’s worst year on record. But, for many species, numbers are still below average🚨

The latest findings from BeeWalk shows:
⚠️5 species declined even further
📉15 species are below average
📊2 rare species had promising numbers

Read on: https://ow.ly/rPgn50YtjhB

Oak, Horse Chestnut, Birch and Sycamore, thoroughly deep rooted symbolism for someone loyal to our isles.

Great news! It’s in the calendar. I wouldn’t miss it

An oak seedling

The chances of this oak seedling (as of today a 2 year old sapling) making it to 500 years old is ridiculously small

It can only happen with human help. All of us. It only takes one broken person a couple of minutes to break its heart, and mine

It seems as if the people of East Malin had waded, like bitterns, far into some muddy marsh, for there is deep mud within the houses, and mud and water all around them for a great distance. Judging from the way in which the water spread itself out at this point, the remnant of houses at this spot must have looked at one time like sunken arks in the middle of a lake.

The aftermath of The Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 and one reporter's observations at Malin Bridge as 'the people of East Malin had waded, like bitterns, far into some muddy marsh'

Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 15 March 1864
© British Newspaper Archive

Yay for peanuts!

Today I visited a low-income family in #Nelson #Lancashire.

They had a #leak in the #bathroom and mold/damp on the ceiling, the husband/dad has #Asthma and it was a worry for his wife, that the #mold could effect his breathing.

I removed the wallpaper, cleaned the area and repaired the leak.