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Nancy Johnston

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Gallus granny interested in glass, graves and gardens. Perthshire. Once a History teacher. Ancient alumna of University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde (Jordanhill) and the OU. RAMC camp follower for 33 years. Photos all mine.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thanks to new followers and to those who’ve been following for a while. Gradually topping up my photos of carved gravestones, countryside etc - but not much #stainedglass this year, as few churches around here are open.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 5h

#31daysofgraves Day 11 -Military. War graves in Bad Gastein, Austria, including that of a 20 year old, Lt Siegfried Santer who was wounded in Russia and died in a field hospital.

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rozanderson.bsky.social @rozanderson.bsky.social · 12h

#31daysofgraves Sergeant Albert Bayne who received Distinguished Conduct Medal. Bayne family headstone in Dunblane Cathedral graveyard. A few weeks after this article was published he was killed in action.
Content provided by British Library Board.

Headstone to Bayne family. Large grey granite stone with north side of cathedral in the background.

Article from Stirling Observer 28th March 1916 with image of Albert Bayne

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Edinburgh Walks @edinburghwalks.bsky.social · 10h

#31daysofgraves Day 11 -military
The graves of at least 210 men from the 1/7th Leith (Royal Scots) killed in UK’s worst rail disaster at Quintinshill in 1915. From Rosebank Cemetery, Edinburgh,Scotland.
More here: www.edinburghwalks.com/the-leith-bo...

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Rosie Rowley @thehistoryspy.bsky.social · 10h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11: Military - hard to choose as most of my photos are of military gravestones and war memorials! Decided this is one of the most poignant headstones in #Macclesfield Cemetery. A family of seven children and their parents; poor Mary Ann lost her husband and all her children...

Black headstone with the Cheshire Regiment crest in gold at the top and gold lettering, naming nine members of the McKay family. The father Robert died in Macclesfield of illness contracted while serving in Africa in 1901. All five sons died while serving with the Cheshire Regiment, one in the Boer war, three in WWI and one in WW2. Two daughters died of influenza at the end of WWI.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 6h

My only visit to King’s Lynn was to the funeral of Jack’s sister at Mintlyn over twenty years ago on a dreich December day.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 11h

They sound like station names but according to his death certificate the falls were in these streets.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 12h

#SteepleSaturday Church in Rovaniemi, Finland. Photo by @dralisonj.bsky.social this week.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 13h

Probably not long. Can’t find anything about him in the newspapers of the time.

Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 14h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11:Military. In Restalrig kirkyard. Sebastian was born in London in 1840. His father was a French basket maker. Sebastian died from a fractured skull, caused by falls in South Saint David St, Princes St, Waterloo Place, Regent Road and London Rd. From his horse?

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 1d

Day 10 of #31DaysOfGraves - Urn

Lichen has really claimed this urn in Kilnaughton, Islay, with its mournful epitaph below:

And you'll sometimes come and see me
Where I am lowly laid
I shall not forget you father
I shall hear when you pass
With your feet above my head
In the long and pleasant grass

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck. Rachel could have died in childbirth, as the numbers quoted could be from Genesis 35, 18-20. No nearer to finding who she was, though.

Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been puzzling over what’s on the bottom right for ages. Can’t really make it out. Thought it might be a biblical quote but can’t find anything that fits. Will have to revisit and have a closer look.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Carmunnock Parish Church in Glasgow. Rebuilt in the 1760s, it's possibly based on a pre-reformation religious site. The main entrance is through the small door under the stairs, while the stairs themselves lead up to one of the upper galleries.

#glasgow #carmunnock #church #architecture

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves Day 10 - Urn. In The Grange cemetery, Edinburgh, to Rachael.

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St Columba’s Church of Scotland @londonkirk.bsky.social · 2d

We’re celebrating Susan Pym — Elder, editor of our church magazine, and a steady heart at the centre of St Columba’s. Her care, creativity and quiet dedication enrich our church life in so many ways. Here’s to many more years of her inspiring work among us.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 2d

For #AdoorableThursday, here's one of the wee Gothic porch doorways of Ardrishaig Parish Church in Argyll, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, that flank either side of the kirk's landmark tower that helps guide boats safely into the calm harbour that leads into the Crinan Canal.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9 of #31DaysOfGraves - Hand

"Our persecutors fill'd with rage,
Their brutish fury to aswage,
Took heads & hands of martyrs off,
That they might be the people's scoff..."

Here's the somewhat gruesome Covenanters' grave in Cupar Kirkyard, showing a severed hand of David Hackston, buried beneath.

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rozanderson.bsky.social @rozanderson.bsky.social · 2d

#31daysofgraves Day 9 hand. Dunblane Cathedral graveyard doesn't seem to have any carvings of hands, so I've opted for this epitaph instead. 'Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to thy cross I cling.'

Elizabeth Rose beloved wife of George McIntosh died 1909 76yrs. Large grey granite headstone

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LizD @bibby4.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9 Hand: At Lempitlaw in the Scottish Borders a hand holds a set of scales presumably for the weighing of souls on the day of judgment.

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysofGraves: Day9: Hand. Clasped hands can symbolise unity or reconnection between two people after death. We don't have many types of these at Warriston, but this celtic knot work stone is a nice example. #Edinburgh #celticknot #Warriston #taphophile

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Hand. Tomb in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, with a hand holding the deid or skellet bell.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 3d

Ardrishaig Parish Church, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek has, for #WindowsOnWednesday, stained glass by Phil Melville, memorialising the fishing heritage of the area. Unusually, it is lit from inside the bell tower and acts as a vision beacon welcoming any boats to the village’s safe harbour.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day8: Glass. #StainedGlass. Window by John K Clark in the Trades’ Kirk, Dundee, showing The Howff.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 3d

Day 8 of #31DaysOfGraves - Glass

When visiting a graveyard, have you ever wondered what these flat marble plates, reminiscent of chopping boards, are?

They're the bases of Victorian/Edwardian "Immortelles" that once held fragile memorial ornaments under a glass dome. Not many now survive intact...

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves day 8 - glass. Arguably the most famous tomb despite its current state, the "Red Lady" (officially the Robertson mortuary chapel) was erected in 1865 for Mary Ann Robertson (1826–1858). The original red glass roof allowed red coloured daylight to flicker on the stone figure inside.

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