Pam Smith

🤣Thesis the way… next stop: submission station 🚂

#OnePlaceWednesday spent writing about C19 technological disruption (railways) while battling C21 technological disruption (printers) - both needed intervention. Had a stand-off with an HP Envy and pulled its miserable & begrudging plug out. Sorted. 🚂 #Licentiate #Thesis

🤣 Thanks for your support Andrew! As long as no one alters my timetable and leaves stay off the line. 🤓🚂

Thanks Maggie! We’ve been down this road many times. 🤓📚

Thanks for the encouragement Liz Nearly there.

Thanks Sylvia! Am determined. You’ve got the t-shirt.

Thanks Mike! I’ll get a copy to you when complete. 🚂

“All Change” - Railway and Societal Alteration in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Rillington. Seriously folks, I’ve nearly completed my #Licentiate #Thesis #Railway @ihgs.bsky.social @rwldproject.bsky.social Currently proof-reading and stitching together, send strength! 🤓 🚂#OnePlaceWednesday

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I agree. Our feral farm cat didn’t respond well to domestic life. Jessie lived in our Christmas tree like some oversized, sprawling decoration. She ran up the curtains until she reached the top & hung there till rescued. Biting my Nana’s ankles while gripping on was a lesson in self defence!

So comical. 😻 I used to tempt mine by wiggling a knitting needle under the rug. Amused me for ages watching them launch across a polished floor and under the rug. Happy #Caturday too.

Big roof energy! I’ll say!

'The Illustrated History of Chapel Allerton' on the ground

Walking tour 14:00-16:00 Sunday 18 January relating to a new book by local historian Steve Burt.

I'm editor + author of Ch.8 & supplied loads of photos.
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-illust...
(I'll be offering other dates later.)

Interview: Pam Smith, Ginger Goodwin's Family | Video Learn about Pam Smith, a genealogist whose great grand-uncle was legendary labour activist Ginger Goodwin.

#GingerGoodwin #FamilyHistory www.labourheritagecentre.ca/collection/p... A young miner & union activist whose medical exemption from military service was cancelled when he organized a strike at the Trail smelter. He was shot & killed by a former police officer. His death sparked a general strike 🇨🇦

This account shares research from an ongoing #OnePlaceStudy of #Rillington #Scampston, exploring how national change shaped ordinary lives in the mid C19. Through records, land & family history, it traces continuity, disruption, & resilience at a local level. History often hides in plain sight.

S10EP02 - 'The Disinherited' with Simon Howard - The Family Histories Podcast Host Andrew meets Norfolk-based family historian and heirloom-reuniter, Simon Howard, and hears about a woman disinherited by her father.

Ep2 arrived yesterday with guest Simon Howard. Can you help him find his missing LOWN relatives from Norfolk, UK? familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/11/18/s... #genealogy #ancestry #norfolk #FamilyHistory

Posed staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a guard's van, about to hit his head on a passing signal post. The image caption reads 'Heads - you lose!', with explanatory text above.

🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨

Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!

‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online

#LocalHistory #Railway200

www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025

Masterful!

Re wills price hike: I’ve hit the ground running. Had all the wills for my Dunster #OnePlaceStudy but not #Sudbourne. I’ve filtered by age the 1858+ burials from my spreadsheet, deleted the under 18s & now searching for the remaining 300+ individuals in the National Probate Index
#OnePlaceWednesday

One Place Study Enhances Family Tree - Society for One-Place Studies When I first registered my One Place Study of Graveney and Goodnestone in North Kent, I thought I might find the odd ancestor or two to add to the family tree, but I never anticipated quite how that w...

A quick #OnePlaceWednesday read for you on our blog, from @wendytm.bsky.social Wendy Tait Mayfield: #OnePlaceStudy Enhances Family Tree.

So looking forward to
your NRY transcripts. Book format for the ERY. Happy days! 👍😀 #HearthTax

S01EP09 - BRICKDUST with Pam Smith - The Family Histories Podcast Host Andrew Martin welcomes back previous guest Pam Smith for this first Brickdust bonus episode - and Pam has an update on Sir Richard Etherington.

ICYMI: The first of our new episode type - BRICKDUST with Pam Smith ( @genejean.bsky.social ), where we welcome back a previous guest to hear how their Brick Wall is going...

familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/09/26/s...

#genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory

Highlighting the fantastic work of Joe Saunders and his strong case for using title deeds for *everything*! If you’re working on a village history (like me, in the parish of #Rillington and its chapelry of Scampston), you’ll find this especially relevant. #OnePlaceWednesday

Two very different memorials about the same man. Dr John Simpson, later Hudleston, was a major landowner in #Rillington & also the man behind the infamous #Knaresborough Castle Yard Riot of 1865–6.

Left his mark in both places I’ve called home. Was he always calling out to me? #OnePlaceWednesday

Have you noticed an abandoned or derelict Victorian building near you? 📩 media@victoriansociety.org.uk for a chance for it to be featured in our Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2026.
🏘️ 🏭⛪ in England & Wales only, built between 1837 - 1914. More here: bit.ly/4hybqrc

#heritage #endangeredbuildings

Starbeck used to be an important junction with heavy goods traffic from the North to Leeds with 40 passenger trains daily. The locomotive shed built in 1857 was extended to become the longest two-track engine shed in Britain. It was a major influence for the rising village of Starbeck. #Railway200

Photo of a view from a churchyard (part of a gravestone can be seen near the bottom left corner), across sheep pasture (with ewes and lambs) and over a strip of water to more fields beyond. There are plenty of trees in this view, around the edge of the lake and beyond.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 22: Landscape. The churchyard of St Mary’s in my local #OnePlaceStudy sits within the lovely landscaped parkland of Fawsley, which although not created by ‘Capability’ Brown was later worked on by him. Here we look Southeast across part of Big Waters lake. #OnePlaceWednesday

Every now a then a previously unknown book surfaces that’s exactly what’s needed for my #IHGSLicentiate research. This could not be more timely as landowners played a vital part in the mid C19 during the coming of the railway. Lucky me! @ihgs.bsky.social #Rillington #OnePlaceWednesday #LocalHistory

He’s a fine gentleman!

Lovely!