Margaret Ford🌲🏠
@maggief.bsky.social
Family historian doing a One place study for Childs Ercall and Tibberton, Shropshire and also for West Smethwick, Staffordshire
Postcard of five ways Birmingham the statue is still there
#birmingham
#birmingham
December 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Postcard of five ways Birmingham the statue is still there
#birmingham
#birmingham
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A museum has successfully purchased an Iron Age hoard, after fundraising more than £11,000 to keep the haul in the county it was discovered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum has brought the hoard which includes a 2,000-year-old horse brooch.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A museum has successfully purchased an Iron Age hoard, after fundraising more than £11,000 to keep the haul in the county it was discovered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Recently went to Scotland for weekend photo is off Christmas lights at Edinburgh opposite Edinburgh Waverley station in the rain
#Edinburgh
#Edinburgh
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Recently went to Scotland for weekend photo is off Christmas lights at Edinburgh opposite Edinburgh Waverley station in the rain
#Edinburgh
#Edinburgh
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🎄 Day 18 of our #Shropshire advent calendar shows a frost-covered tree on the county’s ‘other’ Caer Caradoc in the Redlake Valley. This is the view along the ramparts of the hill fort looking towards Hopton Titterhill, on a day when it was so cold that the water had started to freeze in my flask. 🎅
December 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🎄 Day 18 of our #Shropshire advent calendar shows a frost-covered tree on the county’s ‘other’ Caer Caradoc in the Redlake Valley. This is the view along the ramparts of the hill fort looking towards Hopton Titterhill, on a day when it was so cold that the water had started to freeze in my flask. 🎅
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🎄 Attingham Park at sunrise is the subject of Day 17 in our #Shropshire advent calendar. The sky was filled with a wonderful pink glow as I was driving past on my way to Shrewsbury, and I just had to pull over to take a picture. ☃️
December 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🎄 Attingham Park at sunrise is the subject of Day 17 in our #Shropshire advent calendar. The sky was filled with a wonderful pink glow as I was driving past on my way to Shrewsbury, and I just had to pull over to take a picture. ☃️
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🎄 Day 2 of our #Shropshire advent calendar takes us to the Stretton Hills and here we have the view from Hazler Hill, looking towards Helmeth Hill and Caradoc. The dark sky you can see was bringing more snow, and after this shot I headed up Caradoc and was caught in a blizzard for an hour. 🎅
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
🎄 Day 2 of our #Shropshire advent calendar takes us to the Stretton Hills and here we have the view from Hazler Hill, looking towards Helmeth Hill and Caradoc. The dark sky you can see was bringing more snow, and after this shot I headed up Caradoc and was caught in a blizzard for an hour. 🎅
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December 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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🎄 It's the start of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here is Ludlow Castle surrounded by hoar frost glistening in the winter sunshine. It was a beautiful morning up on Whitcliffe Common, but the cold was fierce and the only way to stay warm was to keep moving in between taking pictures. ☃️
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🎄 It's the start of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here is Ludlow Castle surrounded by hoar frost glistening in the winter sunshine. It was a beautiful morning up on Whitcliffe Common, but the cold was fierce and the only way to stay warm was to keep moving in between taking pictures. ☃️
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November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
www.kent.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
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Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists and Game Designers Collaborate to Create “Basically the Best Book on the Picts Ever Written” - Dig It!
Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts is an illustrated and comprehensive book for anyone interested in Scotland’s past, including those who play tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). Fol...
www.digitscotland.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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"Funding came from Arts Council England, V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society, and the Friends of Leeds City Museums."
AKA
The detectorist and landowner were paid an undisclosed amount to hand over what should be ours...
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AKA
The detectorist and landowner were paid an undisclosed amount to hand over what should be ours...
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Saxon cross discovered in Leeds field to be displayed in museum
The pendant is believed to date from the 8th Century and have been a worn by a high status person.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
"Funding came from Arts Council England, V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society, and the Friends of Leeds City Museums."
AKA
The detectorist and landowner were paid an undisclosed amount to hand over what should be ours...
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AKA
The detectorist and landowner were paid an undisclosed amount to hand over what should be ours...
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good news for Childs Ercall Best kept village
#Shropshire
#ChildsErcall
#OnePlaceStudy
www.shropshirestar.com/your-world/2...
#Shropshire
#ChildsErcall
#OnePlaceStudy
www.shropshirestar.com/your-world/2...
County pride celebrated with homebuilder’s awards sponsorship
Leading housebuilder David Wilson Homes has proudly sponsored Shropshire’s 2025 Best Kept Village and Community Award, having contributed £1,000 to support the initiative.
www.shropshirestar.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Good news for Childs Ercall Best kept village
#Shropshire
#ChildsErcall
#OnePlaceStudy
www.shropshirestar.com/your-world/2...
#Shropshire
#ChildsErcall
#OnePlaceStudy
www.shropshirestar.com/your-world/2...
Railway workers and managers at Spon Lane Station West Bromwich. Station next to chance Glassworks
The area of glassworks part of my One Place Study West Smethwick
#railways
#westBromwich
#Oldbury
#OnePlaceStudy
The area of glassworks part of my One Place Study West Smethwick
#railways
#westBromwich
#Oldbury
#OnePlaceStudy
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Railway workers and managers at Spon Lane Station West Bromwich. Station next to chance Glassworks
The area of glassworks part of my One Place Study West Smethwick
#railways
#westBromwich
#Oldbury
#OnePlaceStudy
The area of glassworks part of my One Place Study West Smethwick
#railways
#westBromwich
#Oldbury
#OnePlaceStudy
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Dear Followers,
‼️JTH created an open-access collection of papers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first railway journey in Britain‼️
Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
‼️JTH created an open-access collection of papers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first railway journey in Britain‼️
Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
October 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Have French scientists solved the mystery of Nelson’s lover Lady Hamilton?
Have French scientists solved the mystery of Nelson’s lover Lady Hamilton?
Digital reconstruction of remains discovered in Calais graveyard bears ‘incredible’ likeness to Emma Hamilton, mistress of British naval hero Horatio Nelson, say experts
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Have French scientists solved the mystery of Nelson’s lover Lady Hamilton?
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#ResearchBuddies day at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social
Still time to register to join us this afternoon where we will be discussing all things #Poynton and #Prestbury
Link to register/find out more 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events/resea...
Still time to register to join us this afternoon where we will be discussing all things #Poynton and #Prestbury
Link to register/find out more 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events/resea...
August 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#ResearchBuddies day at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social
Still time to register to join us this afternoon where we will be discussing all things #Poynton and #Prestbury
Link to register/find out more 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events/resea...
Still time to register to join us this afternoon where we will be discussing all things #Poynton and #Prestbury
Link to register/find out more 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events/resea...
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And more on the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project via the link below.
Credit to the University of Portsmouth Heritage Hub for funding our work!
There's more to come from this project, so watch this space over the coming weeks and months!
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-a...
Credit to the University of Portsmouth Heritage Hub for funding our work!
There's more to come from this project, so watch this space over the coming weeks and months!
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-a...
Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts - Railway Work, Life & Death
Introducing our work with the Havant Local History Group, to find out more about Portsmouth area railway staff & their accidents.
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
August 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
And more on the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project via the link below.
Credit to the University of Portsmouth Heritage Hub for funding our work!
There's more to come from this project, so watch this space over the coming weeks and months!
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-a...
Credit to the University of Portsmouth Heritage Hub for funding our work!
There's more to come from this project, so watch this space over the coming weeks and months!
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-a...
Went on Seven Valley railway yesterday with family
#SevernValleyRailway
#SevernValleyRailway
August 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Went on Seven Valley railway yesterday with family
#SevernValleyRailway
#SevernValleyRailway
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Blacks Swans are majestic… 😊
And don’t get me started on how cute the babies are…. 🥰❤️
🦢
And don’t get me started on how cute the babies are…. 🥰❤️
🦢
August 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Blacks Swans are majestic… 😊
And don’t get me started on how cute the babies are…. 🥰❤️
🦢
And don’t get me started on how cute the babies are…. 🥰❤️
🦢
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ITV are putting all of Ivor the Engine up on YouTube! Just been watching it with the baby. Well, she was asleep but I'm sure it was doing her some good subconsciously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPae...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPae...
Ivor The Engine | Season 1 Marathon Ep.1-8 | Full Episodes
YouTube video by ITV Retro
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
ITV are putting all of Ivor the Engine up on YouTube! Just been watching it with the baby. Well, she was asleep but I'm sure it was doing her some good subconsciously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPae...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPae...
Storm has just started hail thunder
#westmidlands
#westmidlands
July 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Storm has just started hail thunder
#westmidlands
#westmidlands