Latest posts tagged with #streetstudy on Bluesky
The subjects of #OnePlaceStudies range from an individual dwelling – #HouseHistory – or studies of institutions (such as schools), to whole villages, parishes or even towns, and anything in between – including #StreetStudies. A medieval #StreetStudy sounds amazing!
#sketchoftheday: More quick studies in the mini-sketchbook, drawn at coffee shops & bus stops. Full disclosure: I had to make up the baby carriage. They were moving too quick. #sketchbook #streetstudy
Wonderful! A great starting point for a #StreetStudy if anyone wants to take on a brilliant Brum-based #OnePlaceStudy...
Photo of a large, thatched dwelling with pale yellow painted walls and a chimney at each end of the roof, and a small, more modern extension on the left side. There are two doors to the building, which is now used as a café. The building is set in a road junction (in Godshill). Behind it are lots of trees, all in leaf, and above is a blue sky with a few white clouds.
Carrying out (or thinking about) a #HouseHistory, #StreetStudy or wider #OnePlaceStudy in the Isle of Wight? The Isle of Wight Record Office has a detailed, 38-page House History PDF full of useful info and guidance. #OnePlaceWednesday
#HouseHistory, #StreetStudy or wider #OnePlaceStudy interests in #Berkshire? Check out the ‘Where I Live’ page on Royal Berkshire Archives’ website! #OnePlaceWednesday
And still to come from us: An online #OnePlaceStudies workshop; a Berkshire resource for #HouseHistory, #StreetStudy and wider #OnePlaceStudy research; and a new technique used to date a historic building in #Wiltshire.
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#sketchoftheday: Quick digital study done for fun. It's been rather wet here as late. #streetstudy #holidayart
Hope everyone has had a good week. We had a fun weekend - visited #Southsea Model Village! Residents of my #StreetStudy would have been familiar with it, as it was built in the 1950s. Several local businesses & artists are featured #GenHour
#StreetStudy goals...
Barony Buildings, Nantwich One-Place Study. Image: An extract from a large-scale (25 inches to the mile) Ordnance Survey map published in 1910, showing a part of Nantwich parish named The Barony. A road runs North-northwest - South-southwest through the middle of the map. To the East of the road, the land is mostly undeveloped apart from Barony Brick and Pipe Works. The the West of the road are several clusters of buildings, mainly terraces but also some semi-detached houses, with gardens and open fields. Web address: www.one-place-studies.org/studies/ One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
For #MapMonday, a large-scale map with Barony Buildings outlined in green. Nick Blackburn has registered Barony Buildings, Nantwich One-PlaceStudy; Nick's father was born at number 2 and more ancestors and kin occupied other houses in the terrace. His #OnePlaceStudy focuses on the years 1881-1939.
A fox asleep on a front door step in front of a yellow door by a mosaic tiled path
A fox on the lawn
A fox asleep on a shed roof
A fox standing on a shed roof
Plenty of foxes in my #StreetStudy! We enjoy watching the cubs grow year after year, but since people started feeding them they’ve lost their fear of people & have even been known to go in our houses if the door is left open! #OnePlaceWednesday
Trade directories – especially those incorporating comprehensive street directories – can be useful resources for #HouseHistory, #StreetStudy and wider #OnePlaceStudy research too! #OnePlaceWednesday
Snowsfields & Newcomen Street, Southwark One-Place Study. Image: Extract from a large scale map, published 1897, showing streets and buildings in a part of Southwark. Newcomen Street and Snowsfields (the former becomes the latter about half way across the map) snake across the middle of the map from west to east.The buildings in the area are a mixture of residential homes, shops, and industrial buildings, with sized varying accordingly. Guy's Hospital is near the northwest corner of the map, and in the northeast corner is part of London Bridge Station, which numerous railway lines emerging from it and running past its north side. www.one-place-studies.org/studies One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
For #MapMonday here’s a large scale Ordnance Survey map showing part of Southwark in 1897, with the location of the Snowsfields & Newcomen Street, Southwark One-Place Study🔗, newly registered with us by Ruth Graham, highlighted. Follow the link to the #OnePlaceStudy profile page to find out more
Caught a glimpse of the link to my #StreetStudy on the #OnePlaceStudies website! #OnePlaceWednesday
I gave it up before I registered Sudbourne - there’s no way I could cope with two villages with their combined population sizes in addition to a #StreetStudy & an inebriate home!
If anyone is interested in submitting a talk for RootsTech 2026, your proposals need to be submitted by Monday 23 June 2025. I gave talks about doing a #StreetStudy and a #OnePlaceStudy at #RootsTech 2023. It's a great way to bring your research together & publicise your study! #OnePlaceWednesday
A street party with red, white and blue bunting
We had a #StreetParty for #VEday80 in my #Southsea #StreetStudy at the weekend. If you live in your #OnePlaceStudy, are you recording current events for the future? #OnePlaceWednesday
A chance comment in an unrelated email diverted me from my plans & sent me back to my research into the builder who built my #StreetStudy. He was living a few houses away in an adjoining road when my #StreetStudy was built. He left each child 2/3 houses in his will! #OnePlaceWednesday
A street of Victorian terraced houses festooned with bunting
Our bunting is up and ready for our #VEday80 #StreetParty! More memories to be made in my #StreetStudy 🇬🇧♥️🇬🇧
Watercolours of #Southsea pubs by Iwona Sossna
There’s a lady locally who paints houses & I’m going to ask her to paint my #StreetStudy when there were still trees in the street & before people painted their stone windowsills & removed their front walls to make driveways. If you know what it looked like, that’s an option #OnePlaceWednesday
Both! I have a paid .org for a website I thought might need the additional functionality, & free .com websites for my #OnePlaceStudy, #StreetStudy, & my own #FamilyHistory #GenHour
We’ve applied to have a VE/VJ party in my #StreetStudy! The council are having a meeting on Friday to discuss the applications 🤞🏻 #OnePlaceWednesday
Anyone with Hampshire #OnePlaceStudies interested? I wrote a blog post about my #StreetStudy a while back
Agreed - X & Z are the most difficult letters! I’ve managed to find a Z for my #StreetStudy (& it’s an interesting story) but I’m planning to do the #AtoZchallenge on my #Sudbourne #OnePlaceStudy so it’s no help to me 🤣 #GenHour
Looks like a great way to encourage future #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory / #OnePlaceStudy / #LocalHistory researchers!
A ‘Rupert’ - dummy parachutist
The government appealed for postcards and holiday photos of the French coast to help them plan an invasion. They expected about 10,000 but received 30,000!
The Dickens medal, awarded to Gustav the pigeon, who brought home the first news inf the D-day landings
Bertie, a ventriloquist’s dummy owned by Captain Ted North of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. They performed for off-duty soldiers to help them relax.
Earlier this week, a friend & I visited @theddaystory.bsky.social in #Southsea. Every time I visit I notice something new! I’ve bought a year’s pass, so I can go as often as I like! It helps me learn about my grandfather’s experience & that of the people who lived in my #StreetStudy
Blaeustraat, Amsterdam One-Place Study. Image: Photo of lovely old brick-built buildings, of three to four storeys in height, on one side of Blaeustraat. The building on the left side of the image is a restaurant. Several people can be seen in the image. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
The second of Adrie's #OnePlaceStudies is a #StreetStudy, and puts the #Netherlands back on our OPS map! This study focuses on the history of #Blaeustraat in #Amsterdam, off Dam Square, from 1200 AD onwards. Profile page: www.one-place-studies.org/blaeustraat-... 🧵 2/2
Been a bit quiet here and late to #OnePlaceWednesday today but as it’s #OnePlaceEntertainment promp here is a @layersoflondon.bsky.social collection of #musichall entertainers and venues from my #StreetStudy and surrounding neighbourhood www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...
Edgar Street, Worcester One-Place Study. Image: Photo of a row of houses, mostly built with red bricks, of two-storeys (with dormers) on the left and three storey, again with dormers or attic rooms) on the left. On the road in front (to the left in this picture), several cars are parks, facing the houses. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
Our webmaster has been busy on #OnePlaceWednesday processing new #OnePlaceStudy registrations. Here's a #StreetStudy, of Edgar Street, Worcester (England) registered by @kfancett.bsky.social on behalf of the city's u3a #Genealogy Group.
More info: www.one-place-studies.org/edgar-street...
