A square church tower with tall corner pinnacles, illuminated in bright sunshine against a dark cloudy sky.
St. Sepulchre Without Newgate, City of #London. 15th century, with later alterations.
#TowerTueusday #ChurchCrawling
📷 my own, 2017
It really does. (And I don't think I've ever seen an exclamation mark on a war memorial over here.)
A wooden war memorial panel in a Bavarian church porch, headed 'GOTT MIT UNS!' and with a long list of names, in each case with the unit the person served in and date of death.
Check out the detail on this memorial in Andechs, Bavaria. The panels go from the 1866 war with Austria to the late 40s - including those who died in Soviet camps. The tone of the headings changes from belligerent to melancholic over time. I'll fish them all out & post when I get a mo.
📷 my own
Good morning from the River Weaver, near #Northwich.
#Rivers #Cheshire
A circular mosaic with a brick surround, depicting a bearded male figure in a horned helmet, sat on a throne surrounded by curling waves. It was created in 1995 by Maggy Howarth and is installed in the pavement at the top of Heritage Way.
Pebble mosaic of 'King Canute', at #Knutsford. Local tradition is that the place is named for him, though that only goes back the the C17; it could be from the Old English 'cnottan-ford', 'ford at a hillock'.
#MosaicMonday #Cheshire
📷 Mine, placename info from Watts. Mosaic info in alt text.
@mike-critchley.bsky.social
I can confirm The Book Shop has it - looks great! I look forward to reading it. Congratulations again.
No problem! The place is called "Edgar's Field", only a couple of hundred yards from the bridge.
An eroded carving of Minerva on a stone face, framed by modern surround with hood. The light is pale, on a winter's morning.
Close up of a carving of Minerva, on a stone face; modern bricks are visible bottom right, where a hole has been filled.
The shrine in context, on an outcrop of rock in a sloping field. The University of Chester's Wheeler building is visible across the River Dee in the background. It is a sunny day.
Shrine to the goddess #Minerva, Edgar's Field, #Chester. Second century (with modern surround), carved on a quarry wall; the only one to survive in situ in Britain. You can find it in Handbridge, just across the Old Dee Bridge from the city centre.
#RomanSiteSaturday #Cheshire #RomanBritain
📷 mine
Great - I should be able to call in tomorrow, on the way to @sthelenstownafc.bsky.social / Matty Lees' festival of football at Ruskin.
Cheers Mike. I can't make the Cricks, unfortunately, but I will pick one up from The Book Stop (a shareholder's duty discharged, serving two good purposes).
It has been dug a couple of times, in 1958-60 and 1982. Only the latter published,
And likewise on visiting: I used to visit Nelson for work, but I didn't know about the fort then. Drat.
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Congratulations Mike. Where can I buy a copy?
It really was. Really well done to Vaness Oakden and the team there. 👏
A good point! I posted about Castercliff recently.
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P.S. I should mention, given recent events, that Manchester Museum acquired it at auction.
A close up photograph of a torc made from twisted gold, in a museum display case.
Iron Age torc made from twisted gold, unearthed by ploughing at Cliviger, #Burnley in 1802. The area isn't a hot spot for prehistoric finds, so it is quite something. Manchester Museum acquired it in 1960.
📷 mine, from the recent 'Treasure...' exhibition in Liverpool.
#FindsFriday #Lancashire
A wooden double door set into a Roman arched doorway. The surround is a simple painted band, in a shade of peach, in a white wall. A solid-looking drainpipe runs up the wall to the right.
A simple, attractive side-door at the church at Kloster Andechs, #Bavaria. The Heilige Berg was pleasantly quiet last week, but in the summer months it attracts large crowds that make contemplation - of eternity or doors - near impossible.
#AdoorableThursday #Bayern #ChurchCrawling
📷 mine
An excellent point! No parking the bus at this ground.
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A red brick ball with football goalposts painted on in white paint.
The most egalitarian of pitches, on the edge of #StHelens town centre.
#WallsOnWednesday #Football #Lancashire
📷 mine, 2024
A stone built terraced house with a small blue plaque next to the door. It isn't legible in the photo, but commemorates Wallace Hartley having lived in the house from 1890-1895.
There is a plaque on the house he lived in on Albert Road in Colne, too.
#Lancashire
📷 Google Street View
The church at Kloster Andrechs, Bavaria, yesterday. 15th century on a hilltop site (Heilige Berg) with a much longer history, and famous for its collection of relics (and brewery 🙂).
#ChurchCrawling #Bayern
📷 mine
The last in the series of Triskele Heritage online talks will be in 3 weeks - a look at The Surprising Secrets of Ancient Corridors...
More info & bookings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-surpri...
Is this pointing, or inviting the viewer to erm, well...?
#Castles
With thanks to @moleymole.bsky.social, who knows a thing or two about soil.
😆 I'm going to have to start pointing at things (maybe off camera, just to get into the angry spirit of it all).
A colour portrait aspect photograph of a stone doorway, with large posts but the lintel missing. The ground slopes upwards away from the camera, through the doorway, reaching a short wooden staircase to a higher level beyond. There are bare trees in the background, and a grey sky.
Looking out from the arena into one of the two entrances in the excavated part of #Chester #amphitheatre.
Doorways prompt thoughts of those who passed through before like few other features.
#AdoorableThursday #RomanFortThursday #Cheshire
📷 mine
A rough upland landscape viewed from directly above. There is an eroded oval enclosure just visible in the centre, in the cruck of two lanes.
Castercliff hillfort, #Lancashire. It is just a few hundred yards from the eastern outskirts of Nelson, & quite prominent, w. three concentric ramparts.
#HillfortsWednesday
Image via Google maps.
A large, square tower, with sharp right angled corners. It is made from rubble and has few eye-catching features on this face. It stands on the edge of a road, which has a car and a motorhome parked on it. The dominant colours are grey, pale blue and other pastel shades.
The Priory Tower, at Much Wenlock. Thirteenth century, probably part of an entrance gateway to the monastic precinct (though this is sometimes debated). GII Listed.
#TowerTuesday #Shropshire
📷 My own, 2022.
RiP.
My Grandfather (also Royal Engineers) was at Enfidaville, his first action. He told me about clearing bodies afterwards, and its role in converting him to a chainsmoker (to help mask the smell). Grim.
