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A gathering of societies with an interest in and an understanding of the history of Cheshire. Reposts are not endorsements. See more on our website: www.cheshirehistory.org.uk
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#WhatsOn this week at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social
Group meetings at #Crewe #Northwich #Sale - all Christmas socials, such be fun
Helpdesks at #Chester & #Wallasey
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A colour photograph in landscape format. It shows the top section of two stained glass windows focussing in on the beautifully painted faces of the Cheshire knight Hugh Lupus and Saint Ermenhild of Ely
Stained Glass windows
This post shows a fragment of a stained glass window by the #Cheshire artist Trena Cox (1895 - 1980). The painting of the faces was beautifully done, these were seen at the Chapel of the University of Chester in October 2024.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #StainedGlass
A black and white photograph in landscape format. It shows the roof of a modern building with an eye shaped window treatment.
Modern Window
Hello Friday Alphabetters! Here's a photo of a modern window treatment on the roof of an equestrian centre in Cheshire.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows #atchitecture #ClassicMono #reflections
A kitchen counter with a laptop computer, showing an online lecture
2025 Christmas Lecture poster
I enjoyed watching the @rcahmwales.bsky.social Christmas lecture last night while cooking dinner! ๐จโ๐ณ Their senior investigators talked about their best discoveries around Wales in 2025. It was recorded and should be online next week (probably at www.youtube.com/@rcahmw). @drtobydriver.bsky.social
05.12.2025 09:44 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Photograph showing weathered gravestones, trees with remnants of their autumn foliage and fallen leaves on the ground.
Good day all.
Another autumnal scene of Lister Lane Cemetery.
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Happy St. Andrewโs Day! This statue of St. Andrew is carved in oak, and dates to around 1500. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. ๐ธ My own. #StAndrewsDay
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A black and white photograph in portrait format. It shows a white gate, in need of TLC, which is the entrance to the canal towpath at Christleton, Cheshire. Beyond the gate the canal curves to the right, there are mature willow trees on the far bank and you can glimpse a canal boat moored up in the distance.
Access to Amble About
This gate has seen lots of walkers and ramblers and provided access to the canal towpath. A =Access. Happy Sunday everyone!
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #Stunday #ClassicMono #canals #PhotoOfTheDay #monochrome #landscape #Cheshire
A colour photograph of Sandbach Market Hall decorated for Christmas in 2021.
Cheshire Christmas Markets
It's nice to see the Xmas markets popping up around the county. We have a long history of markets awarded by charter, ancient market crosses & market halls (old and new). There are a number of articles on our website (Past Publications) which give info. See Bio
#Markets
๐ชถ๐ชถ๐ชถThree cormorants preening themselves perched on a fallen tree. Equally at home in fresh water settings as coastal habitats. #Nationaltreeweek #seabirds #outdoors #nature #wildlife #beauty #Wirral
30.11.2025 08:59 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Red and white christmasy pattern background with the words - FHSC's Quiz-mas calender, 3 questions everyday, 1 seconds to answer, pop your score in the comments. Will you be Christmas Champion?
Watch out for the @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social #AdventCalendar starting tomorrow
This is something I have been doing for about 6 years now - but this year it has a bit of a twist
๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ-๐ฆ๐๐ฌ! ๐๐คโ๏ธ
Join in from tomorrow
A farm worker judges home via a flooded track through the misty rain. He is watched from a pond in the foreground by juvenile swans.
โAutumn, with its heavy rains, has filled the pond to the brim, and has flooded the track to the farm.โ
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Sunday Snippets, 30 November 2025 www.birkenhead.news/sunday-snipp...
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Night and Rooftops, painting by Harold Riley, 1934-2023, (University of Salford). #NorthernArt
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#WhatsOn this week at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social
#Runcorn Group:
Research night/Christmas Social ๐
#Helpdesks at
#Chester #Tameside #Wallasey
Discussion Groups: ๐ฃ๏ธ
Historical newspapers
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Saturday Quiz
Where on The Wirral are these four locations?
Updates to the BNA, Part 1 Yorkshire Evening Post: 1999-2001, 2004 Southern Daily Mail: 1897-1898, 1901-1904 Society Times: 1889-1891 Hackney Standard, Bethnal Green and Shoreditch Chronicle: 1880-1889, 1900-1907 Globe: 1822-1824, 1861-1862 Galway Weekly Advertiser: 1823-1829, 1840-1843 Financial Reformer: 1858, 1860-1868, 1871-1873 Fife News: 1870-1874, 1878, 1891-1913, 1921-1950 Durham Chronicle: 1889 Dublin Evening Post: 1871-1875 Bromyard News: 1903-1909, 1911-1912, 1925-1954, 1962-1965 Bo'ness Journal and Linlithgow Advertiser: 1879-1883, 1892-1895, 1897-1913, 1921-1939
Updates to the BNA Part 2 Belfast Morning News: 1873-1878 Banffshire Journal: 1913, 1921-1947 Alnwick Mercury: 1947-1949, 1986-1992
. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp
Nothing new for #Cheshire at the BNA this week, maybe we'll get an early Christmas present in a week or two? ๐
List of all updates in the screenshots below with #AltText as always
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A #blackandwhitephoto as part of a #series depicting #life of #narrowboat owners along the #waterways of #England. There is often little #gems of #architecture like this #bridge along the #canal #CanalRiverTrust #bnw. #Image Shot by a #local #photographer from #Cheshire.
27.11.2025 03:00 โ ๐ 52 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Inside the extraordinary Llys Llywelyn medieval court, reconstructed from excavated C13th foundations nr Rhosyr on Ynys Mรดn/Anglesey at St Fagans National Museum of History.
An exceptional space in which to feast & to administer princely power over south-west Anglesey
๐ท My own, Tuesday
Having been mistakenly included on an electoral roll, Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell voted in a by-election on this day 1867, more than 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act. Suffragists seized on it as a test case.
26.11.2025 08:42 โ ๐ 254 ๐ 67 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1
The beauty of nature๐๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฒ๐
#NationalTreeWeek #lovetrees #nature #beauty #Britishtrees #outdoors #Nature
A young boy mule spinning at Jones' Cotton Mill, Manchester, July 1909 (Getty Images).
26.11.2025 09:19 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1
๐บAnother 7th anniversary #FindsFriday from November 2018. Three pieces of Bronze Age Very Coarse Pottery, used in the production, trade and storage of salt.
#Archaeology #BronzeAge #Pottery #Prehistory #Wirral
Great to see the good people of Meifod Local History Society last night for a talk on the hillforts of Wales๐
Great Comms from the organisers leading up to the talk โ๏ธ
76 people out despite the freezing weather โ๏ธ
Projector & laptop already sorted โ๏ธ๐ฅณ
Biscuits & raffle โ๏ธ
www.meifodhistorygroup.co.uk
Finding the Battle of Brunanburh by Paul Cavill and Stephen E. Harding.
Out next Monday.
20.11.2025 09:56 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A tiny kingfisher gleams out from dense overarching willows bordering a narrow river
โOn a willow twig a kingfisher perches. It watches the eels with interest, but these are well-grown and too big for him to catchโ
โWhat to Look for in Autumnโ
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer:
EL Grant Watson
The shepherd, standing among a flock of sheep, looks up at the dark and stormy sky
โThe shepherd is looking up at a large skein of whooper swans which has come from colder climes. Like geese, they fly in V-formationโ
(What to look for in Autumn, 1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
๐ชจ๐ฆญThe foundation stone of this project-The Seal's Head Ritual Stone. November is the 7th anniversary of it's discovery. A community of seal hunters marked their place in the landscape a permanent place of devotion๐๐๐๐ป prehistoricwirral.com/the-seals-he...
#Archaeology #Wirral #Mesolithic #Prehistory
