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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 9h

No longer registered with us as a #OnePlaceStudy, but we are absolutely going to wish Black Wide-Awake, Lisa Y. Henderson’s study of the #AfricanAmerican past of Wilson County, North Carolina, a happy 10th anniversary! 🎉 #OnePlaceWednesday

Black Wide-Awake is 10 years old!

Black Wide-Awake simmered on a back burner for years; my first post was titled “At last.” Ten years and almost 7000 posts later, among the greatest joys this blog has brought me are the…

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 12h

Amongst the seven posts added to the Great Ellingham One-Place Study website so far this month is one that ties in with #OnePlaceTimelines, our blogging prompt for October: Timeline of the History of The Crown. Check it out on #OnePlaceWednesday!

Great Ellingham One-Place Study.
Image: Photo looking along a village street on a sunny, blue-skied day. On the left is a two-storey, four-bay cottage with white walls and a tiled roof, with further cottages and their gardens further along that side of the street. On the right, part of another building with white walls can be seen in the foreground, with the spire-topped tower of the village church a little further long the street, partially hidden by a couple of trees.
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 1h

More glass for #31DaysOfGraves Day 8. My pics of the whole window (in Waters Upton church) aren't great, so here's an image combining the three parts of it memorialising Mary Elizabeth Hobson. She was living with her brother, the Rev Samuel Hobson, when she died at the age of 74. #OnePlaceWednesday

Three images combined, showing the bottom parts of three panes of a stained glass window erected "To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Mary Elizabeth only daughter of the late Rev. S. Hobson Vicar of Tuttington, Norfolk, Who died at waters Upton July 3rd 1917."

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 1h

St Catherine's Hill iron age fort, with the Saxon city of Winchester behind.

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Helen Spencer @helspencer.bsky.social · 3h

Noticed the #31DaysOfGraves tag was #Glass today and couldn’t not share this gravestone in Tranent churchyard, East Lothian.

A gravestone for Thomas Waugh, glazier, dated to 1705 which shows the tools of his trade and a lozenge of glass. He was a glass worker, likely at nearby Morison’s Haven.

The top half of a worn stone gravestone in a grassy graveyard. There is a carved hand holding a lozenge of glass along with tools - including a blow pipe, a set square and a pinching tool.

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2h

Transcription of the 1st of 3 #Sudbourne school log books is complete! 🥳 I'm double-checking the transcript prior to publication. Transcription of the 2nd log book is well underway #OnePlaceWednesday

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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 2h

This door at Eastwood church in Essex dates from about 1150, which is extremely rare. The hinge has an inscription which (more or less) says ‘blessings on those who come and go’.

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 2h

The next two meetings of the Bourne End Bucks One-Place Study Society will take place on 16 Oct 2025 (Fireside Chat: In conversation with Ken Townsend) and 20 Nov 25 (Talk: Historic Pubs in and around Bourne End).#OnePlaceWednesday

Bourne End One-Place Study.
Image: Photo of a view across the Thmas at Bourne End. On the near side a barge is tied up. On the far side, many boats are moored and houses can be seen behind them. The sky above is blue and cloudless.
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 3h

Booking for the Guild of #OneNameStudies 2026 conference is now open! There’s often some overlap between #OnePlaceStudies & #OneNameStudies. Even if you’re not a one-namer, the topics are relevant to anyone interested in #FamilyHistory or #LocalHistory
one-name.org/guild-confer...
#OnePlaceWednesday

Guild Conference 2026

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 3h

Marine Terrace, #Rosemarkie, c1905

[source: HLH Libraries]

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Aldbourne Archive @aldbournearchive.bsky.social · 3h

John Veitch (1856 - 1920), Royal Navy, then Coastguard at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex and in retirement landlord at both the Crown and Blue Boar pubs in Aldbourne. Remembered at the weekend at the St Michael's Church Discovery Day - our village links with the sea
#31DaysOfGraves #OnePlaceWednesday

The grave of John and Emily Veitch in Aldbourne churchyard shows an anchor on the cross

The grave of John and Emily Veitch in Aldbourne churchyard shows an anchor on the cross. This photo shows a close up of the anchor.

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David Ryan @ryangenealogy.bsky.social · 5h

Final day to catch this recording for free #Genealogy #Webinar

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If you missed out on my Legacy Family Tree webinar last week you can catch the recording for free until this Wednesday familytreewebinars.com/webinar/from... #Genealogy #Webinar

From The Ashes: The 1922 Irish Public Record Office Fire and Irish Genealogy - Legacy Family Tree Webinars

The destruction of the Public Records Office in June 1922 at the outset of the Irish Civil War has cast a long shadow over Irish genealogical research. Anyone who...

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 5h

Day 8: Glass

I like to affectionately call this mausoleum the gingerbread house. This one has lovely stained glass windows, which I apparently didn’t get pictured. You can see them peeking through the tracery though.

#31daysofgraves

A small, ornate Gothic-style mausoleum at Kensal Green Cemetery, built from pale stone and adorned with intricate carvings and stained-glass windows. The arched doorway is framed by detailed floral motifs, and above it is an inscription in Latin. The roof is tiled in muted shades of red and green, with wrought-iron finials along the ridge. A deep red, decorative iron fence encloses the front of the tomb, casting patterned shadows on the ground. In the background, gravestones and Celtic crosses stretch across the cemetery beneath a dramatic, cloud-filled sky, with sunlight breaking through the trees and illuminating parts of the scene in a warm, ethereal glow

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 4h

Hope you’re OK and will be able to resume posting soon. Take care.

Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 5h

“Long before today’s neat hedgerows and housing estates, Mosborough’s landscape was shaped by a very different system of farming — the open fields.” Not a #OnePlaceStudy registered with us, but John Rotherham’s OPS of #Mosborough is well worth a look. #OnePlaceWednesday

Mosborough’s Open Fields – A Glimpse into Our Medieval Landscape

Long before today’s neat hedgerows and housing estates, Mosborough’s landscape was shaped by a very different system of farming — the open fields. The earliest permanent buildings were probably clu…

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 7h

Any more #OnePlaceStudy grave or memorial photos for #31DaysOfGraves on this #OnePlaceWednesday?

Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 8h

#OnePlaceWednesday + #31DaysOfGraves Day 8: Glass

Stained glass window in the chancel of St Mary’s church at Fawsley, my local #OnePlaceStudy, “erected in memory of Sir Charles and Lady Knightley By a grateful Tenantry” in 1866. With closer views of Sir Charles K & Lady Selina Mary K, née Hervey.

Five images combined, on a black background. In the centre is the a glass window in its entirety. Top left: A closer view of the bottom left pane of the window, depicting Sir Charles Knightley, facing right, his hands closed in prayer. Bottom left: An even closer view of the top part of the same pane, showing the head of Sir Charles. Top right: A closer view of the bottom right pane of the window, depicting Lady Selina Mary Knightley, facing left, her head bowed and hands closed in prayer. Bottom left: An even closer view of the top part of the same pane, showing the head of Lady Selina.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 7h

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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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 9h

Built in 1914, this was one of the many cinemas in the town. A balcony was added in 1932. And just look at that crowd! Some picture houses had very plush interiors and were so grand that people nicknamed them “picture palaces”.
#colwynbay #northwales #cinemas #localhistory

'Wetherspoons' - Former Princess Picture House, Princes Drive - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group

Built in 1914, this was one of the many cinemas in the town. A balcony was added in 1932, as well as neo-Egyptian features.

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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 9h

Black Wide Awake is a #OnePlaceStudy worth following. Lisa's work is incredibly detailed and I've learnt a lot from her research about an area of history that is very different to my own research. #OnePlaceWednesday

Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 9h

No longer registered with us as a #OnePlaceStudy, but we are absolutely going to wish Black Wide-Awake, Lisa Y. Henderson’s study of the #AfricanAmerican past of Wilson County, North Carolina, a happy 10th anniversary! 🎉 #OnePlaceWednesday

Black Wide-Awake is 10 years old!

Black Wide-Awake simmered on a back burner for years; my first post was titled “At last.” Ten years and almost 7000 posts later, among the greatest joys this blog has brought me are the…

afamwilsonnc.com

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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 9h

Victorian and Edwardian Childhood and Education 1820-1920. Childhood is often overlooked as a fleeting moment in a person's lifetime; and yet circumstances as a child, often dictated life as an adult. www.pharostutors.com/details.php?...

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 13h

#31DaysOfGraves day 8: glass. I had problems finding a suitable image for this one. I know I have a photo of some stained glass in a mausoleum somewhere on my hard disk, but where? Oh well, this one of Lucy Gallop in West Norwood cemetery, London, shows her photograph behind glass.

A monochrome photograph of a woman in a circular frame. The glass protecting the photo is held in place by a copper alloy ring. The photo is surrounded by a wreath carved in grey stone which is also within an omega shaped piece of carved stone with a key-pattern in gold around the edge, The bottom of the photo shows the plinth of the monument also with a carved decoration.

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Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 12h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 8 - Glass: Sun coming through the stained glass window of the Cory-Wright mausoleum at Highgate Cemetery #London

A large circular stained glass window reflects orange light on to the inside wall of a mausoleum. The text around the window reads "the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms"

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lunchtimedisco.bsky.social @lunchtimedisco.bsky.social · 10h

#31DaysofGraves - Day 8 - Glass

Common Burying Ground, Newport, Rhode Island, USA

A scythe and hourglass motif on three stones.

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 9h

No longer registered with us as a #OnePlaceStudy, but we are absolutely going to wish Black Wide-Awake, Lisa Y. Henderson’s study of the #AfricanAmerican past of Wilson County, North Carolina, a happy 10th anniversary! 🎉 #OnePlaceWednesday

Black Wide-Awake is 10 years old!

Black Wide-Awake simmered on a back burner for years; my first post was titled “At last.” Ten years and almost 7000 posts later, among the greatest joys this blog has brought me are the…

afamwilsonnc.com

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · 10h

Mrs Kennedy, proprietor of the Dalwhinnie Inn (now the Loch Ericht Hotel) and Calum "Piobair" Macpherson, the famous piper and bagpipe tutor on this date on 1861 when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert spent the night at the Inn

[source: #Dalwhinnine Voices / Dalwhinne Community Council]

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