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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant talk by Dr Michael Walker on the Siege of Haughley Castle 🏰 & Battle of Fornham ⚔ in 1173 as part of the 'Great Revolt' against Henry II 🙂
1st of the #BSE Past & Present Society's lectures at the Guildhall ☺
I had no idea we had sites of such significance so close 🤔
#heritage #history

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 5d

It's 17/40 on @philswords.bsky.social Intro's Quiz 'one word titles 8' 🙂
Previous quarters av 15.3 📣
Q by same artist.....cunning ☺
Some weeks it's clear a 2nd listen won't help as it's a 'know them or not' scenario 🧠
Song classics songs this week 🎶
#musicquiz #80smusic #Saturday #popmaster #potp

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 5d

Stopped off at IWM Duxford 🛩 for some lunch 🥘 & a wander round AirSpace on the way back from Bentley Priory this afternoon 😋
Rather like the higgledy piggledy layout of AirSpace as they continue the redisplay of the site 🤔
#museum #avgeek #aviation #heritage #history #WW2 #WW1 #ColdWar #Duxford

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 5d

Great talk 🗣 at Bentley Priory #Museum 🏛 by Aldon Fergurson on the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) 🙂
Operation RAF Pilots got a briefing book for 🛩 type, ATA Pilots got one page 🤔
Not being an armed force the ATA recruited on aptitude e.g. female pilots & those with a disability 🙂
#heritage #WW2 #RAF

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 11d

21/40 @philswords.bsky.social Intro's Quiz ☺ over 50% is cracking for me (6 last wk 😥)
Q1 took 3 listens & some 🧠
Thought Moody Blues for Q7 🤔
Q9 shoulda been a hit for the original, she has the voice 🤷‍♂️
Had no idea Q13 was a cover or Q15 🤔 Great quiz ❤
#Music #80smusic #Radio #Pop #Rock #Relaxation

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 14d

The Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment 🏅 #Museum 🏛 is always happy to help with research into soliders who served with the Regt 🪖
We do need please:
• full name
• date of birth
Any other info is useful 🙂
*we don't have service records at the museum 😥
#heritage #history #WW1 #LestWeForget #WW2

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 15d

It's Ultimate 80s Extra this Sunday 28th September on Felixstowe Radio 📻
107.5fm or listen online around the world 🌎
Any shout outs or messages or requests nows the time folks 🕑
No theme this month it just has to be #80s and #Ultimate 😉
#community #Suffolk #Radio #Felixstowe #80smusic #relax

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 17d

Absolutely amazing to be so close and in some cases be able to touch and look through some of the #books that shaped or changed our world 🌎
#science #knowledge #library #archive #printing #learning

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 17d

Out to the Whipple Library @whipplemuseum.bsky.social as part of Open Cambridge for '500 years of science in print' 📚
Thank you to Jack & Liz from the #Library for showing, explaining & allowing us to touch (only some) some of the libraries absolute treasure 📜
#science #archive #printing #knowledge

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 19d

Down to @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social for a talk by @noelkh.bsky.social on the Land Information Assurance Group 👨‍💻
LIAG deploy to provide Cyber Security to our armed forces 🪖
A role that is only going to become more necessary as the world 🌎 moves on 🚡
Fascinating insight 👍
#cyber #security #army

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 20d

Another fascinating talk 🗣 at the Friends Meeting House on 'A Trio of Quaker Scientists'🔬as part of Open #Cambridge
Its a trip to @whipplemuseum.bsky.social on Sunday and then look forward to @cambridgefestival.bsky.social 2026 🙂
Just ❤ my talk, lectures, tours & exhibitions ☺
#science #discovery

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 21d

Fascinating talk 🗣 at the Friends Meeting House on the experience of Corder Catchpole as a #WW1 conscientious objector as part of Open #Cambridge 🙂
Would we manage conscientious objection in 2025 any better if the need arose 🤷‍♂️ I do wonder 🤔
#history #heritage #learning #discovery #army #conscience

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 24d

Today is #battleofbritainday 🇬🇧 when we remember The One: Dowding, The Few: Aircrew, The Many: Those on the Ground 🛩
We are lucky to have many wonderful #museums to visit 🏛
• Bawdsey Radar #museum
• IWM Duxford
• @rafmuseum.bsky.social
• bentleyprioymuseum.org.uk
• Battle of Britain Bunker

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 25d

An av 14/40 on Phil's @philswords.bsky.social Intro's Quiz 'world' 🌏
Nearly went for the #90s cover off Q7 🤔
Q16 an inspired guess based on the year 📆
Should have got Fe 👩 from the sound 😥
Thought Q1 would be in there ✔
#popmaster #musicquiz #70s #80smusic #TOPT #Sunday

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 25d

Visit to Haverhill #Museum @haverhillarts.bsky.social center to have a look at their display remembering the Suffolk Regiment solider who were prisoners of the Japanese in #WW2 #FarEast #fepow 🪖
Loverly to meet their #volunteers & archivist who have a shared passion for local #history & #heritage 🙂

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 25d

Do you have any books published from your research 🤔

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 25d

Brilliant talk 🗣 by @ckolonko.bsky.social at March #Museum last night on pillboxes 🪖
Putting pillboxes into their proper context in the landscape and as part of Regional Defence Plan 🗺
As of 2002 6000 #WW2 #pillboxes remained but only 100 are 'listed' 🤔
A familiar but misunderstood part of #Heritage

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 26d

My 1st Open Cambridge event @cambridgefestival.bsky.social on friday 🙂
Fascinating 🗣 by Lewis Herbert on the Cambridgeshire Regt in #WW2 particularly their experiences as #fepow of the Japanese 🤔
Many of the audience were descende of #fepow with poignant stories to share 😥
#heritage #LestWeForget

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 26d

Great talk 🗣by Ray Clark at the @suffolkarchives.bsky.social 🙂
To young for @radiocaroline.bsky.social Laser 558 was my pirate ☠ 📻
Had no idea there were so many 🛳 so much 💰 so many ⚖ 🤔
What a #history will need to get another book 📖 🙄
Radio Caroline broadcass from Oxfordness now 🚡
#radio #music

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 28d

Some photos 📷 of the Air Raid Shelter section of the Shorts Tunnels in #Rochester #Kent organised by Hidden History Tours 🙂
If you can do 2 hours underground 🚇 the uneven floor, chill & obstacles (it's not arduous) and #WW2 #heritage #conflictarchaeology is your thing then do this tour 🙂
#Chatham

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 28d

Sunday in #Chatham #Kent was the Historic Dockyards to see the brilliant #lego Brickwrecks 🧱 exhibition 😀
Some of #history most famous shipwrecks 🛳 recreated in lego with explanation of the event, significance and the lego build 🚢
It was an amazing #exhibition 👏
#heritage #museum #shipwreck

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 28d

Out to Burwell #Library this am to listen to Fran Saltmarsh '6 into 1 will go' talk 🗣
Fran told the story of Henry VIII & his six wives while dressing & redressing a manikin in the dress style of each wife 👗
This was a talk brilliant 🙂 highly recommended 👌
#heritage #Tudors #HenryVIII #history

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 29d

The new Suffolk Regiment 🏅gallery at Moyses Hall #museum in #BSE is now open 👌
The commemorate #VJ80 we have an #FEPOW exhibition untill April 2026 to remember the Suffolk & Cambridgeshire solider who were prisoners of the Japanese 🪖
Thank you to Dan for his help 🙏
#heritage #WW2 #FarEast #army

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Suffolk Regiment 🏅 gallery in the Moyses Hall #museum in #BuryStEdmunds is being redisplayed today 😀
Our National Service display is being replaced by a #FEPOW exhibition to remember #VJ80
Even with careful planning there is always some fine tuning on site 🖼
#heritage #WW2 #history #Suffolk

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · Sep 7

My photos 📸 of four 'shelter art' aircraft left on the walls in the Shorts Tunnels in Rochester #Kent from yesterday's tour 🚇
The 'camouflage' that can be seen on the Spitfire & Sunderland is luminous green paint 🎨 that would have been used on the aircraft instrument panels 🙂
#WW2 #heritage #history

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