Cheshire Local History Association

Common Frog #framed by pond weed for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed

Photographed in a south #Cheshire, England garden pond in the 1980s on #Kodachrome

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #nature #naturephotography #PhotographersOfBluesky

Male Chaffinch in a south #Cheshire orchard for #FinchFriday.

Photographed in the 1980s on #Kodachrome.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #OlympusOM2N

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Portrait. Portrait of a Great Tit photographed in south #Cheshire, England.

A #Kodachrome from the 1980s.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #OlympusOM2N

Common Frog #framed by pond weed for #ColourADay #GreenSat and the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed

Photographed in south #Cheshire, England in the 1980s on #Kodachrome

#EastCoastKin #photography #nature #naturephotography #OlympusOM2N

A colour photograph in portrait format. It shows three large framed photographs from a feature film decorating a wall at a cinema. The background of the pictures is red, matched beautifully by the wallpaper, painted skirting boards and desk. To the left of the desk is a trolley with lots of colourful bags of sweets and snacks. All beautifully coordinated.

Picturehouse Wall Art, 2026
Hello Saturday ❤️Here's a photograph from our recent visit to the cinema in #Chester. Love these framed stills from Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" on a wall! Colour coordination on a grand scale!
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #cinemas #films #colourful

Lovely winter’s morning for a stroll around Grosvenor Park, Chester.

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❤️Love tokens? Two heart shaped lithics. First, polished pink granite, flat on reverse. Second a naturally occurring heart shaped piece of flint-collected for it's symbolic meaning? Age uncertain, Neolithic onwards.
#Archaeology #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Love #Wirral

Illustration view point is high up in a budding horse chestnut tree, at the same height as some pigeons who look down on the farmer and his assistant

“The farmer is sowing his corn in the large field that has been ploughed and harrowed”
‘What to Look for in Winter’, 1959
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson

A black and white photograph roughly square. It shows a view looking down a covered walkway, Two people, with shopping bags, walk away from the camera.

The Rows, Chester
Hello Thursday Bluesky! A photograph here of shoppers on part of the medieval Rows in #Chester. This covered space is delightful to walk in, this was Winter 2021.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #Cheshire #ClassicMono #PhotoOfTheDay #urbanphotography #localhistory

A colour photograph in landscape format. It shows a small section of a Victorian stained glass window in a local church. The part is at the base of a larger window and features some beautifully painted snowdrop flowers. There is a window in the church by the famous artist Kempe, but I can't remember if this is by him.

Stained Glass Snowdrops
Hello Wednesday! Here's a section of a stained glass window at St Andrew's Church, #Tarvin featuring some delightful #snowdrops! The section is framed by lead and a metal window bar.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #WindowsOnWednesday #stainedglass #churches

Bookstall outside Ye Olde Rovers Return pub, Manchester, January 1954. The 14th century building was demolished in 1958 (Getty/Manchester Evening News).

Looking forward to talking about #Heiresses with Nasra Elliott of the International Slavery Museum at The Athenaeum in #Liverpool on Thursday 4th March, 5pm. Thanks for the invite @csis-liverpool.bsky.social Book your FREE ticket now.. www.ticketsource.co.uk/csis/csis-pr...

#OTD in 1944, aero-engine factory, Limoges, France. 617 Squadron commander Cheshire made three low-level passes, warning civilians, before bombing commenced. #WW2 #HISTORY

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Berries. A Redwing eating a Holly berry in a garden in south #Cheshire, England.

Photographed in the 1980s on #Kodachrome and published in a field guide to garden wildlife of Europe.

#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

#Scape #Landscape here's one of the #Lakes at Tatton park, Cheshire. #nature #mindfulness #Tranquility

Snow covered farmland in south #Cheshire, England at sunrise.

A #ThrowbackThursday post from the 1980s on #Kodachrome.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #landscape #clouds #sunrise

A Grey Squirrel eating an acorn on a garden lawn in south #Cheshire, England for #SquirrelSaturday.

A #Kodachrome from the 1990s.

#EastCoastKin #photography #nature #naturephotography

A Eurasian Tree Sparrow feeding in an orchard in south #Cheshire, England for #SparrowSunday.

A #Kodachrome from the 1980s.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

The Lovell Telescope #JodrellBank #Cheshire

Flooded fields under a leaden sky, a scene that could be the Somerset Levels

“Heavy rains that often fall in February have flooded the low-lying meadows in the broad valley.”
‘What to Look for in Winter’, 1959
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson

Stunning wildflower meadow with lots of in flower pignut plants in the foreground and a brick railway embankment in the foreground

Site highlight: Dane-In-Shaw Pasture SSSI. The pasture is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) due to it being a grassland of national importance. Walk through the Pasture in the Spring and Summer and it is easy to see why this site is so special - https://bit.ly/2p8Ckjo

Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off…

The next episode of #DiggingForBritain is tonight and features Antiquity authors Benjamin W. Roberts & R. Alan Williams on their excavations of the Bronze Age tin trade at St. Michael's Mount!

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A black and white photograph in portrait format. It shows a gently curving path flanked on both sides by winter trees, ivy and leaf litter. The path is muddy, but it has not discouraged two dog walkers to take the path. The path used to be a railway line but has been re-used as a walkway.

Wintry Walk, 2026
A gentle walk through a woodland (ex-railway line) with its winter coat on, dark green ivy, grey patterned bark and tangled branches.
#ClassicMono #PhotoOfTheDay #woodlands #trees #walkers #landscapephotography #Cheshire #Whitegate

Today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongNecks. A Grey Heron at the edge of a reed bed in south Cheshire, England.

A #Kodachrome from the 1990s.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

The wonder that is Rochdale Town Hall #TownHalls #Rochdale High Victorian design. Gothic Revival. Restoration began 2020. Reopened 2024. architect William H Crossland #Architecture New clock tower by Alfred Waterhouse after disastrous fire in April 1883

Blue and grey text on white background. Major Research Fellowships. Three images and project titles in the arts and humanities and social sciences. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL media.leverhulme.ac.uk/features.

The Trust's Major Research Fellowships scheme enables experienced researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. For more details and to apply, visit: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/major-resear... Deadline: 8 May 2026

That time down Salford.

Six ceramic tiles in a rectangle, with relief features forming the St. Helens Coat of Arms. Pic my own, from 2015.

The old #StHelens Borough crest in ceramic tiles, with the classic motto: #ExTerraLucem. It is on the lodge at the St. Mark's Gate entrance to Victoria Park. The building was derelict for a long time. Now restored, it is now the brew HQ for a local #ParkRun, among things. #TilesOnTuesday #Lancashire