#OnePlaceWednesday
Happy New Year to everyone who does #OnePlaceStudies, #LocalHistory Studies, and #OneNameStudies as well as #FamilyHistory and #genealogy.
I miss my #HouseHistoryHour friends! Happy New Year to you as well.
Remember Twitter Moments over at the other place, a feature pulled in 2022? #HouseHistoryHour, the much missed #HouseHistory chat, used it to create digests of tweets from each
chat. I'm experimenting with @leaflet.pub as a kind of ‘Bluesky Moments’ – check out #OnePlaceWednesday – 13 Aug 2025.
#GenHour Also, if you go through on a pass and take out all the houses-only photos, are you removing them from the context and losing the clues that would tell you the significance of the houses?
Sorry, I've been hanging out with the #HouseHistoryHour crowd too much to want to toss house photos.
I miss #HouseHistoryHour #GenHour
#GenHour I don't know how many of the crew from the now-defunct #HouseHistoryHour on Twitter have moved over to BlueSky, but whoever is here, they're worth a follow.
www.househistoryhour.co.uk/our-team
#HouseHistoryHour was of course also a very different format than the other chats we engage in, in that there there was a weekly 'guest tweeter' who would prepare and schedule a series of tweets about a particular #HouseHistory subject or topic. A lot of organisation went into it. #GenHour
Like #AncestryHour, the #HouseHistoryHour crew had tech they depended on to run the chat. The original timeslot was Thursdays 7 PM GMT. I'll let them know people are interested.
Why not set a time for #HouseHistoryHour each week. Sure many will be interested. Someone has to start things off.
The disappearance of Tweet Deck behind a paywall was a great pity; I think the loss of the 'Twitter Moments' functionality also played a part in the demise of #HouseHistoryHour. We do have deck.blue here, now we just need someone to create an atproto version of Moments... #GenHour
#GenHour I miss #HouseHistoryHour which (like many other chats) left Twitter when the tech they were using to run the chat got ripped out from underneath.
www.househistoryhour.co.uk
It would be good to have some guidance from the #AncestryHour team about what they'd like to do.
I also miss #HouseHistoryHour from the old days.
and #GenHour on Thursdays 8 PM GMT, a replacement for #AncestryHour. #HouseHistoryHour shut down when Twitter Momemts disappeared. Moving communities is difficult if the new tech doesn't support what the old tech was doing. The other sub topic ...
I think it was Tweetdeck going behind Musk's paywall that brought #HouseHistoryHour to an end. Really need to look into Deck Blue here to see if it offers the necessary functionality. Either way, the development of 3rd party tools like that is definitely one of many plus points for BlueSky!
@deborahsuggryan.bsky.social welcome to BlueSky! 👋🏻 It’s as much fun as Xitter used to be! We have a genealogy chat #GenHour on Thursdays at 8pm - would be lovely to see the return of #HouseHistoryHour at some point!
Hello #HouseHistoryHour folk! A tad late to the party today, but will catch up with the hashtag 🙂.
As we're talking all things vernacular...I'm doing an online talk on vernacular houses for @SocGenealogists in September :D #HouseHistoryHour
members.sog.org.uk/events/643e7686f5f3c2000...
Who is this peeping out from page 36 of the current edition of @wdytyamagazine?
Why, tis I!
With my #HouseHistory hat on, giving my 'Expert's Choice' house history website...
#HouseHistoryHour #WDYTYA #genealogy #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory
The world's biggest mince pie? At the Portman Hotel, Marylebone in 1973, with Hattie Jacques in attendance, no less! Spotted in Westminster Archives newspaper collection recently.
#HouseHistoryHour
Hello #HouseHistoryHour folk! Nice to be chatting about Christmas traditions this evening. I'm in the middle of a deadline (a commissioned #HouseHistory for a gift) & just returned from #archives (with my other hat on), but am seeing that there are some fascinating things so far!
A fabulous and absorbing #HouseHistoryHour- not only the details and info about Miss Toward, but the story of how the her home was saved and preserved- utterly fascinating. Thank you Rachel @TenementHouse11
#HouseHistoryHour https://https://t.co/neMfvaO5Mp
Sliding in a cheeky plug for my newly published #TownHalls book at the end of #HousehistoryHour.
It's not #HouseHistory related, tho some former THs have been converted to residential & hotels :D ! Special offer price direct from @amberleybooks at the mo...
It's always lovely to see photographs of a dwelling's former occupants- really adds a special depth to the research of #HouseHistory.
#HouseHistoryHour https://https://t.co/AOFqwkjU6E
Fantastic to see an example of a box bed.
(And a close up of one of the mantlepiece ornaments too ;) )
#HouseHistoryHour https://https://t.co/IlBJQldzQH
Loving the decor and the mantlepiece ornaments in the second image (the top right one)!
#HouseHistoryHour https://https://t.co/xtmz9QDqiZ
My home town Birmingham is known for its Brutalist architecture, and some has sadly been demolished. But one of my favourites remains- the fantastic Grade II listed New Street Signal Box- (tho not housing related, obvs!) #HouseHistoryHour
I ventured to the grounds of @CannonHall1760
near Barnsley, though didn't visit the house itself this time. It's #BarnsleyHeritageMonth this month so if you're in the area pop along! :) Fab cake in the nearby garden centre too. #HouseHistoryHour
#Yorkshire
https://www.cannon-hall.com/
Hello #HouseHistoryHour folks! Hope you are all well. I can't stay for the entire hour today, but looking forward to hearing about historic houses you've visited over the summer. #HouseHistory #LocalHistory
Hello #HouseHistoryHour folk! Looking forward to hearing from Paul about the updates to @rth_brighton during today's hour. Had the pleasure of being welcomed for a spontaneous visit in January 2020, so it'll be interesting to see what's changed since then!
My childhood home was a late 1960s semi-detached house in Kings Norton #Birmingham- part of a group of three pairs, built on the site of recently demolished prefabs- I was very sad when I found this out later in life. #HouseHistoryHour
Several of my #Islington #HouseHistory houses had former occupants who had spent short spells in various workhouses as children. Interesting to trace their post-workhouse lives. Most escaped poverty. #HouseHistoryHour
