Ste Lingard
@stelingard.bsky.social
History & archaeology, esp. of northern England. Alumnus @ Sheff & Brum history. Freelance researcher & project manager in heritage sector @ www.sglingard.com. Chair @StHelensTownAFC.bsky.social.
Doorway into the hot dry room at the bathhouse at Chesters Roman Fort, on Hadrian's Wall. The jambs demonstrate continuity of design from much earlier work, such as that in #TheFlintstones' house, at Bedrock.
#RomanFortThursday #ADoorAbleThursday
#Northumberland #RomanBritain
📷 my own, from 2024.
#RomanFortThursday #ADoorAbleThursday
#Northumberland #RomanBritain
📷 my own, from 2024.
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Doorway into the hot dry room at the bathhouse at Chesters Roman Fort, on Hadrian's Wall. The jambs demonstrate continuity of design from much earlier work, such as that in #TheFlintstones' house, at Bedrock.
#RomanFortThursday #ADoorAbleThursday
#Northumberland #RomanBritain
📷 my own, from 2024.
#RomanFortThursday #ADoorAbleThursday
#Northumberland #RomanBritain
📷 my own, from 2024.
1914
PEACE & PLENTY
This brick relief panel at the former Peasley Cross Conservative Club in my home town filled me w. sadness when I first noticed it. I imagine the members & locals were grimacing at the sight within a few months of completion. Ugh.
#StHelens #Lancashire #ReliefWednesday #FWW
PEACE & PLENTY
This brick relief panel at the former Peasley Cross Conservative Club in my home town filled me w. sadness when I first noticed it. I imagine the members & locals were grimacing at the sight within a few months of completion. Ugh.
#StHelens #Lancashire #ReliefWednesday #FWW
February 4, 2026 at 8:17 AM
1914
PEACE & PLENTY
This brick relief panel at the former Peasley Cross Conservative Club in my home town filled me w. sadness when I first noticed it. I imagine the members & locals were grimacing at the sight within a few months of completion. Ugh.
#StHelens #Lancashire #ReliefWednesday #FWW
PEACE & PLENTY
This brick relief panel at the former Peasley Cross Conservative Club in my home town filled me w. sadness when I first noticed it. I imagine the members & locals were grimacing at the sight within a few months of completion. Ugh.
#StHelens #Lancashire #ReliefWednesday #FWW
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The next Triskele Heritage online talk is Reinterpreting Listed Buildings. It looks at why buildings were listed, what conditions were like for listing investigators, why many listings were short & inaccurate, plus how new research is pushing back dating.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
The next Triskele Heritage online talk is Reinterpreting Listed Buildings. It looks at why buildings were listed, what conditions were like for listing investigators, why many listings were short & inaccurate, plus how new research is pushing back dating.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
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Many years back we were tasked with creating some interpretation, addressing how the tower might have been integrated into the early medieval town defences.
February 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Many years back we were tasked with creating some interpretation, addressing how the tower might have been integrated into the early medieval town defences.
Reposted for good old #TowerTuesday.
The tower of the Church of St. Michael at the North Gate, #Oxford. Built circa 1040, it is the oldest standing building in the city, being decades older than the castle tower. I love the characteristic 'long and short' quoins. #MedievalMonday #ChurchCrawling #Oxfordshire
📷 my own, from 2015.
📷 my own, from 2015.
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Reposted for good old #TowerTuesday.
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
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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
The tower of the Church of St. Michael at the North Gate, #Oxford. Built circa 1040, it is the oldest standing building in the city, being decades older than the castle tower. I love the characteristic 'long and short' quoins. #MedievalMonday #ChurchCrawling #Oxfordshire
📷 my own, from 2015.
📷 my own, from 2015.
February 2, 2026 at 10:36 AM
The tower of the Church of St. Michael at the North Gate, #Oxford. Built circa 1040, it is the oldest standing building in the city, being decades older than the castle tower. I love the characteristic 'long and short' quoins. #MedievalMonday #ChurchCrawling #Oxfordshire
📷 my own, from 2015.
📷 my own, from 2015.
Memorial to Capt. Loraine (Grenadier Guards) S.Sgt. Wilson (Royal Engineers), killed in a crash near #Stonehenge in 1912. This memorial is outside the visitor centre, reminding us of the Army's role in pioneer military aviation & its place in that special landscape.
#StandingStoneSunday
#Aviation
#StandingStoneSunday
#Aviation
February 1, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Memorial to Capt. Loraine (Grenadier Guards) S.Sgt. Wilson (Royal Engineers), killed in a crash near #Stonehenge in 1912. This memorial is outside the visitor centre, reminding us of the Army's role in pioneer military aviation & its place in that special landscape.
#StandingStoneSunday
#Aviation
#StandingStoneSunday
#Aviation
No one forbids visitors to climb on the walls quite like the Ministry of Works.
Brougham Castle, 2020.
#CastleSaturday #Signage #Westmorland
📷 my own
Brougham Castle, 2020.
#CastleSaturday #Signage #Westmorland
📷 my own
January 31, 2026 at 11:09 AM
No one forbids visitors to climb on the walls quite like the Ministry of Works.
Brougham Castle, 2020.
#CastleSaturday #Signage #Westmorland
📷 my own
Brougham Castle, 2020.
#CastleSaturday #Signage #Westmorland
📷 my own
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Flooded fields at Upton upon Severn reveal ridge and furrow in the floodplain.
Medieval open-field agriculture still shaping the land beneath modern pasture.
Raking light has a way of making deeper histories visible.
Medieval open-field agriculture still shaping the land beneath modern pasture.
Raking light has a way of making deeper histories visible.
January 29, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Flooded fields at Upton upon Severn reveal ridge and furrow in the floodplain.
Medieval open-field agriculture still shaping the land beneath modern pasture.
Raking light has a way of making deeper histories visible.
Medieval open-field agriculture still shaping the land beneath modern pasture.
Raking light has a way of making deeper histories visible.
Public survey work we did in 2019 as part of producing the Borough Heritage Strategy found huge support for saving the Gamble - it is special to generations of Sinterlliners, me included. These proposals are very promising. Fingers crossed. #StHelens #Libraries
New images reveal exciting vision for the Gamble Building
New images reveal exciting vision for the Gamble Building
NEW images have revealed an exciting vision for the Gamble Building.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Public survey work we did in 2019 as part of producing the Borough Heritage Strategy found huge support for saving the Gamble - it is special to generations of Sinterlliners, me included. These proposals are very promising. Fingers crossed. #StHelens #Libraries
This porthole is from RMS Tayleur, a large clipper built at #Warrington on the #RiverMersey in 1853. She foundered in the Irish Sea in 1854, with the loss of more then 300 passengers and crew. The item was recovered in 1972 and is now on display in W'ton Museum. #FindsFriday #Museums
📷 my own
📷 my own
January 30, 2026 at 8:21 AM
This porthole is from RMS Tayleur, a large clipper built at #Warrington on the #RiverMersey in 1853. She foundered in the Irish Sea in 1854, with the loss of more then 300 passengers and crew. The item was recovered in 1972 and is now on display in W'ton Museum. #FindsFriday #Museums
📷 my own
📷 my own
I gave a talk for the 60th anni. of #StHelens Hist. Society looking back & ahead 60 years. The final bit used a map like this: though the town itself will be above the rising sea, nearby lowland behind Southport will flood & the country as a whole be very different. Massive impact for everyone.
This isn't just an issue for Somerset. Huge swathes of England, including the Fens, Broads and Humberhead Levels, are already at or below sea level
We're going to lose much of our best agricultural land, and millions of people will become climate refugees
What's the plan?
We're going to lose much of our best agricultural land, and millions of people will become climate refugees
What's the plan?
January 30, 2026 at 7:39 AM
I gave a talk for the 60th anni. of #StHelens Hist. Society looking back & ahead 60 years. The final bit used a map like this: though the town itself will be above the rising sea, nearby lowland behind Southport will flood & the country as a whole be very different. Massive impact for everyone.
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Been to survey an early modern house in Leicestershire today which had lots of reused mediaeval timbers. However, what *really* caught my eye was this blacksmith's forge complete with intact bellows. Apparently it was still in use until the 1970s 🔥⚒️
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Been to survey an early modern house in Leicestershire today which had lots of reused mediaeval timbers. However, what *really* caught my eye was this blacksmith's forge complete with intact bellows. Apparently it was still in use until the 1970s 🔥⚒️
The remains of the tower at the SE corner of the Roman legionary fort at #Chester / Deva, with a section of the mediaeval wall behind it. Built in the late first century, it originally had a ditch in front, filled in long ago. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain
📷 my own, from 2024
📷 my own, from 2024
January 29, 2026 at 8:21 AM
The remains of the tower at the SE corner of the Roman legionary fort at #Chester / Deva, with a section of the mediaeval wall behind it. Built in the late first century, it originally had a ditch in front, filled in long ago. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain
📷 my own, from 2024
📷 my own, from 2024
The same view today (or as close as is practical, given Urbis / NFM; the original spot was back and left a little). #Manchester #ThenAndNow #Lancashire
January 28, 2026 at 3:43 PM
The same view today (or as close as is practical, given Urbis / NFM; the original spot was back and left a little). #Manchester #ThenAndNow #Lancashire
Good morning from the #RiverWeaver, near Northwich. #Cheshire
January 28, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Good morning from the #RiverWeaver, near Northwich. #Cheshire
The marvellous late C16-C18 barn at Littlewood Hall Farm, Ulnes Walton, near Croston, pictured in 1957. It survives, although altered since and hemmed in by modern farm buildings. GII Listed. (Ulnes Walton is from 'Ulf's 'wall farm/settlement'.) #Woodensday #Lancashire
Source: HE Archive 2637_054.
Source: HE Archive 2637_054.
January 28, 2026 at 7:58 AM
The marvellous late C16-C18 barn at Littlewood Hall Farm, Ulnes Walton, near Croston, pictured in 1957. It survives, although altered since and hemmed in by modern farm buildings. GII Listed. (Ulnes Walton is from 'Ulf's 'wall farm/settlement'.) #Woodensday #Lancashire
Source: HE Archive 2637_054.
Source: HE Archive 2637_054.
I'm going to be doing something special for #Hastings960, as I did for the 950th anniversary. I'll post about it properly in the next few weeks. #Walking
If you haven’t seen it, there’s a cunning plan underway to refight the Battle of Hastings at a scale of 1 man = 1 miniature. This is the Peter’s Paperboys ‘Hastings 960’ project, using units of around 200-300 18mm minis to put 16,000 figures onto the gaming table in October 2026. #spreadthelard
January 27, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I'm going to be doing something special for #Hastings960, as I did for the 950th anniversary. I'll post about it properly in the next few weeks. #Walking
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January 27, 2026 at 9:35 AM
The windmill in the West Ward at #Bamburgh Castle, March 2009. The Bamburgh Research Project's Trench 3 (I think) is in the foreground, in the process of discovering features from C7 onwards, & rediscovering Dr. Brian Hope-Taylor's 1960-70s excavations. #TowerTuesday #Archaeology #Castles
📷 my own
📷 my own
January 27, 2026 at 6:24 AM
The windmill in the West Ward at #Bamburgh Castle, March 2009. The Bamburgh Research Project's Trench 3 (I think) is in the foreground, in the process of discovering features from C7 onwards, & rediscovering Dr. Brian Hope-Taylor's 1960-70s excavations. #TowerTuesday #Archaeology #Castles
📷 my own
📷 my own
I have never felt closer to feeling the distant past than when in that crypt.
Not a tiny fragment, nor a single sherd of pottery, but a full, voluminous Anglo-Saxon space from the 9th century at St Wystan’s in Repton, Derbyshire. The spiral columns - perhaps a memory of St Peter’s shrine. Holy air encased in stone. Betjeman’s words describe it perfectly.
January 26, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I have never felt closer to feeling the distant past than when in that crypt.
Splendid mosaic bookstall sign, at #Manchester Victoria Station. Pic my own, from 2016. For a few years before that, the old stall was used as a booking office for a rebooted Orient Express 'Northern Belle' service. #MosaicMonday #Railways
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Splendid mosaic bookstall sign, at #Manchester Victoria Station. Pic my own, from 2016. For a few years before that, the old stall was used as a booking office for a rebooted Orient Express 'Northern Belle' service. #MosaicMonday #Railways
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24th Jan is the birthday of both @adrianedmondson.bsky.social and the Emperor Hadrian.
Ladies and Gentlemen we give you.....
...Hadrian Edmondson. 😳😐
Ladies and Gentlemen we give you.....
...Hadrian Edmondson. 😳😐
January 24, 2026 at 10:48 AM
24th Jan is the birthday of both @adrianedmondson.bsky.social and the Emperor Hadrian.
Ladies and Gentlemen we give you.....
...Hadrian Edmondson. 😳😐
Ladies and Gentlemen we give you.....
...Hadrian Edmondson. 😳😐
