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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1m

The purchase of Grade 2 listed Keighley Picture House, W. Yorks by campaigners delayed due structural issues with the building.👇
BBC News - Keighley cinema purchase delayed over structural issues - BBC News
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Keighley cinema purchase delayed over structural issues

Bradford Council paused plans to sell the site at auction after campaigners expressed an interest.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 6m

John Lennon's banjo being unveiled alongside a mosaic featuring nearly 1,300 images of John Lennon at Strawberry Field, Liverpool to mark what would have been his 85th birthday. 👇
BBC News - John Lennon's banjo goes on show on what would have been his 85th - BBC News
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John Lennon's banjo goes on show on what would have been his 85th

John Lennon's original band The Quarrymen will perform to mark 85 years since his birth.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 11m

225 year old Preston former pub, The Tithebarn will be demolished due to safety concerns. 👇
BBC News - Plans 'unlikely' to save decaying Preston 19th Century pub - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plans 'unlikely' to save decaying Preston 19th Century pub

Plans to demolish the old Tithebarn pub were paused to see if parts of the building could be saved.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely fascinating talk tonight by @drewhobbs.bsky.social for @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social about Lancashire newspaper proprietor Anthony Hewitson & the diaries he kept. Andrew detailed the partnership with Wakefield local newspaper proprietor Charles William Carr at the Wakefield & West Riding /1

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 9h

Appeal launched to preserve the last flying Vulcan bomber. 👇
BBC News - Appeal launched to preserve last flying Vulcan bomber - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Appeal launched to preserve last flying Vulcan bomber

The trust which looks after Vulcan XH558 in South Yorkshire says it is under

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 10h

Herald & their subsequent falling out which led to Carr leaving the newspaper. Hewitson's Wakefield diaries will be published by Andrew in the near future. I wrote about Carr in my #OnePlaceStudy for St. John's Square, Wakefield at www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk/post/15-st-j... /2

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely fascinating talk tonight by @drewhobbs.bsky.social for @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social about Lancashire newspaper proprietor Anthony Hewitson & the diaries he kept. Andrew detailed the partnership with Wakefield local newspaper proprietor Charles William Carr at the Wakefield & West Riding /1

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 10h

From the Archbishops of York's Registers 1225-1650 is the document below which is a deed founding a chantry at St Mary's chapel on the newly constructed bridge in Wakefield to pray for Edmund de Langley, Duke of York it was signed by the Duke on August 20, 1398, after

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 16h

Yorkshire museums to receive £3.5 million funding boost with Wakefield & Pontefract receiving £82,807. 👇
BBC News - Yorkshire museums to get £3.5m funding boost - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yorkshire museums to get £3.5m funding boost

Museums minister Baroness Twycross says funding will ensure the attractions can remain open.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 17h

Former Grade 2 listed York City & County Bank, later HSBC at Baxtergate, Whitby which dates from 1891 to be converted to bar, restaurant & 2 holiday let flats. 👇
BBC News - Former Whitby bank to become bar and holiday flats - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Former Whitby bank to become bar and holiday flats

The HSBC bank building in Whitby is being

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Kelly Cornwell @whoamiftr.bsky.social · 20h

I was recently a guest on the #Genealogy podcast - Armchair Genealogy. I had a wonderful time, just chatting with @genealogyguy.co.uk about all things #FamilyHistory

If you'd like to take a listen, just click on the link below.
share.transistor.fm/s/a4832bf6

Genealogist Kelly Cornwell chats with the Genealogy Guy about research tips | Armchair Genealogy - Family Tree & History | Episode 24

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeologists to explore a new area of the battlefield of Culloden. 👇
BBC News - Archaeologists to explore new area of Culloden battlefield
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Archaeologists to explore new area of Culloden battlefield

The ground that will be explored was where Jacobite forces advanced on the front line of an opposing government army.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 23h

7pm tonight & tomorrow on BBC4 are showing Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age & Fred Dibnah's Building of Britain.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 2d

(N)Evermore: Remembering the immortal Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary of his death in 1849. Few authors have had such cultural and literary longevity. (illustration by Charles Addams)

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

Peel Mills, Horbury, W. Yorks which dates from 1855. It was run by yarn manufacturer William Schofield. In 1929 & 1932 it was available to be let out & was described as having 4 floors, about 1 acre floor, electric crane & good water supply. /1

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

The former art deco Garrick Theatre, Lord Street, Southport which opened in 1932 to be converted to a 137 room hotel with 11 apartments. 👇
BBC News - Southport hotel, spa and restaurant plan for former theatre - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Southport hotel, spa and restaurant plan for former theatre

The former Garrick Theatre in Southport was previously used as a bingo hall.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

Sidmouth, Devon which has the highest number of over 90's as a proportion of the British population with 6% of people over age 90 & 22% over age 80. 👇
BBC News - 'Thriving not just surviving' in over-90s capital
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'Thriving not surviving' in Sidmouth Britain's over-90s capital

Sidmouth has the highest rate of over 90s in Britain but what is the town's draw for nonagenarians?

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 2d

This is so sad to see. The owner of the Grade 2 listed 200 year old former home of suffragette Edith Rigby, Winckley Square, Preston, Lancs has been told to carry out repairs in the next 2 weeks. Rigby was jailed 7 times as a suffragette. 👇

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Ultimatum for repairs on suffragette Edith Rigby's Preston house

A council serves an urgent notice demanding remedial action to protect Edith Rigby House in Preston.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

By 2023 it was being offered as residential property with a rooftop garden. /2

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

Peel Mills, Horbury, W. Yorks which dates from 1855. It was run by yarn manufacturer William Schofield. In 1929 & 1932 it was available to be let out & was described as having 4 floors, about 1 acre floor, electric crane & good water supply. /1

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Street Life, by Seanna Doonan, Wakefield-based illustrator. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

The City Gate Hotel, Lower North Street is the site of the old North Gate of Exeter & has part of the ancient city wall in its cellar. It was previously the Crown and Sceptre Inn which dates from 1770 & was rebuilt from an earlier inn by Johnny Doe. It was near the entrance to the city from North /1

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

until 1997. A fire followed in 1999 with another reopening in 2000 before later becoming the City Gate Hotel. It was Grade 2 listed in 1974. /3

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

Devon with stagecoaches dropping their passengers off here. In 1834 the Crown & Sceptre was rebuilt in red brick with stucco bands at some 20 feet higher due to the construction of the Iron Bridge which elevated the road. The pub was popular with students up to the late 1980's. It closed in 1991 /2

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

The City Gate Hotel, Lower North Street is the site of the old North Gate of Exeter & has part of the ancient city wall in its cellar. It was previously the Crown and Sceptre Inn which dates from 1770 & was rebuilt from an earlier inn by Johnny Doe. It was near the entrance to the city from North /1

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