Congratulations to the Australian Remembrance Army for securing a grant from the Australian Government to mark 120 unmarked graves of World War 1 soldiers in Toowong Cemetery.
An outstanding achievement by Katrina Trevethan and Cate Walker.
Lest We Forget 🌺
www.dva.gov.au/news/latest-...
Playing in puddles, Manchester, 1966, photo by Shirley Baker.
The grave of infamous shopkeeper, William Hardaker known as "Humbug Billy" has been identified at Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford. He accidentally killed 21 people & left at least 200 seriously ill in 1858 after selling them sweets laced with arsenic. /1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A visit to the clifftop churchyard and the remaining spire of St Germain's Church
Blick über das Gelände
Kolumbarium
Grabstein aus schwarzem Stein an dem ein Glasteil mit einer Rose befestigt ist
Grabstein aus marmoriertem Stein, betende Hände als Relief
Friedhof Schleswiger Straße
📍 Eckernförde
#cemetery
holundra.de/2026/03/frie...
"The Later Listers of Shibden Hall - 1854-1933" (2 April):
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-later-...
In case you're around Halifax later this month and at the start of April, my friend David has a couple of cool #localhistory events. #history #oneplace
Murder & Runaway Matrimony: Anne Lister's Family Secrets (31 March):
holdsworthhouse.wearegifted.co.uk/holdsworth-h...
My friend John recently published a new specialty book that will be useful for anyone interested in #genealogy or #localhistory in #Halifax!
#oneplace #genealogy #history
Good day all.
Ivy draped gravestone.
A map is shown, with the logo of the Historic Towns Trust in the top left corner. The words "Mapping our Past, Shaping our Future" are written in the centre.
Join us on 31 March to learn about family history in late Medieval Brecon!
This webinar is hosted in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-f...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Tonight's Worm Moon over Sheffield.
It was created by James Spedding and Roger Foyster at Holkham Forge from a design by Polly lonides of Norton parish.
👀 Church of St Margarets,
Burnham Norton, #Norfolk
Coronation Gate - King Charles III in 2023.
The dragon is from the story of St Margaret of Antioch. The dragon/Satan is transformed into a friend.
Thistle & marguerite are symbols for St Margaret of Scotland
#MetalworkThursday
#IronworkThursday
#cemetery
A giant keyhole in the loch (lock).
2 beautiful Black Smokes?!
No way would have got my B Smoke mostly-maine-coon kitten into the car, it took me all day to get him down from the cat tree when I put the harness on, so well done you!
Let’s start the day in a good way.
Rex died a 100years ago.
He is left sticks instead of flowers.
The graves outside Farfield Quaker Meeting House in West Yorkshire at first seem rather confusing: one grave calls January the eleventh month and another calls June the fourth month. However, this wasn’t an error or a simple mistake.
📷 The graves in the burial ground of Farfield Meeting House
Guys, one of the most iconic properties in St. John's is at risk of becoming condos that no one from here can ever afford. Also it's a heritsge property. Please help us save it 🙏 #yyt #nfld
www.change.org/p/help-save-...
When a cat decided to take me to CS Lewis's final resting place
"Here lyeth the body of Robert Nesbit of Halifax, Blacksmith who departed this life January 23 1783, aged 60 years."
Old Burying Ground, Halifax
Captured under an insipid winter sky and wet grass - the beautifully decorated memorial to one Gertrude Agnes Ware, her youngest son Kenneth and her infant daughter Aileen Teresa.
⚰ Parish of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK.
#TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
A black and white photograph of an ornate white headstone dedicated to Maria Ann Colwill, who passed away in 1905. The grave is enclosed by a decorative wrought iron fence, set against a backdrop of trees in a quiet cemetery.
Preserving the silent legacies of those who came before us.
Riverton Cemetery, Riverton, South Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽.
#cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #taphophile #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography
We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/
Some northern sass there! Best depiction of a northern lass I've seen for a while ;)
I'm off to Devon this evening - in a virtual sense, that is - to speak to the good people of the @devonfhs.bsky.social
I'll be live via Zoom at 19.30 and we'll be looking at our ancestors' annoying tendency to lie - or at least, to be economic with the truth...
www.devonfhs.org.uk/event/virtua...
Collating the St John's #Graveyard, #Nelson, #Lancashire, unmarked graves — public/common #Graves for the poor — is hard.
In 1 + 1/2 of the 14 areas, 662, mostly children.
Great Uncle Frank, a twin, died at 5 months old in 1907.
The wind blew in a blue tile as if to mark the spot for me to find.
Publication day tomorrow: 'These Isles: A People’s History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' (HarperNorth).
Kittens, new and old (Merlie 16 here, 20 now); flowers of all kinds, fresh and dry; tea; the sound, smell, feel of the ocean; Yes, Petrichor! And the storms it rides in on.
Thank you for making me think lovely positive thoughts at the beginning of the day :)
Yes, we follow each other, I've looked at a few things they have going on. I'll get to one soon and let you know.
Podcasting is on the cards for us too. Stories, experts, guests sharing knowledge and skills in all things graveyard, heritage and the unique preservation they need.
Oh! A few of us friends may be interested, I'll muster the team :)
