2 years ago I worked on a project to restore a 1920s WHS railway station bookstall. It was in pieces & in a bad state. A colleague & I found old photos of it in the WHS archive at @themerl.bsky.social which helped the restoration work. Look at it now👇 Full story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

#OTD in 1915, husband’s great uncle, Archibald McLeaver, 1 Scots Guards, died of wounds received at Loos. He was an FP of #Airdrie Academy, was 20 and studying for entry to the Civil Service. Info from British Newspaper Archive.

Thanks for the Mars Bars.

Hopefully of interest - do please share the news: we'd love to see as many people as possible coming to the exhibition! @harchivestrust.bsky.social @communityrail.bsky.social

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.

📖 "The Private Lives of the Auschwitz SS" by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz A look at the perpetrators at the Auschwitz camp from a new, little-known, and sometimes surprising perspective. #ebook: https://books.auschwitz.org/en_US/p/E-BOOK-Piotr-Setkiewicz-The-Private-Lives-of-the-Auschwitz-SS/681

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

Did you see these @moleymole.bsky.social ?

I know I've asked this a few times recently but I've been very unwell for much of this year & am trying to get back on my feet again financially by teaching my workshops again alongside running my Etsy shop. Please could you give my posts above/below about my workshop a RT if you have a moment?...🌿

Feel like superwoman now as I’ve managed to track down which socket tripped the electrics 💪

I'm sure Chris Mason will be all over this. any second now... just you wait... ...

Hunslett is a very hard working and helpful bear 😍

OTD 1915 my Great Uncle Hugh was admitted to The General Infirmary at Leeds as a result of injuries received while fighting with 1/6 Lancs Fusiliers at Gallipoli. He was discharged to Rawdon Convalescent Home in October then home on furlough in December.

10 wolves have already been killed in MT since hunting season opened last week. Killing wolves is neither supported by science nor ethics, yet it becomes a reality when wolves lose federal ESA protections. As the numbers climb, how many more wolves will be lost without reason?

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WorldPharmacistsDay 1914 advert in Modern Pharmacy: A Practical Journal for the Retail Druggist, showing a triangular bottle with corrugated sides and coffin-shaped tablets, stamped "poison," both of which were supposed to alert the user that poison was to hand.

25 September 1827 The Heaton Park horse races began. Held annually for a decade, the races would ‘afford a very agreeable treat to the sporting community in this neighbourhood’. In 1828, to attract a ‘more select’ crowd, spectators had to arrive on a horse or in a carriage.

Without inherited wealth or the family name, these fellas would be stood at the side of the road shouting nonsense at passing traffic.

'How the Rapture might be good for Reform' by Chris Mason

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Fuck Tylenol. What scientists should really be doing is investigating the link between fake tan and malignant narcissism.

As most of my Studio Sale are Great War related paintings I’ve decided to make my Normandy 1944 paintings half price until the end of the weekend, too. Why not take a look and grab yourself a bargain? You can find them all here: timgodden.co.uk/shop/p/norma... #ww2 #Normandy #illustration

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

🦇 Bats are rumored to sleep the whole day but we usually find the little ones jostling and grooming in their kiddo clump at any time of day. They must catch many little naps in-between shenanigans. #bats #arizona #wildanimals #cuteanimals #wildlife #babyanimals #babybats

Velocirapture

@cricketnut2005.bsky.social Everyone has been to Whitby 😊

20 September 1653 Manchester merchant Humphrey Chetham died. His wealth paid for a school and library, in buildings dating from 1421. library.chethams.com/about/histor...

Weekends are for Wandering! How about a walk at Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara? This haunting landscape of blanket bog is full of stories. It was also the site where pioneering aviators Alcock and Brown crash-landed, successfully completing the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight. #Ireland

Really enjoying seeing one of my heroes at The Lowry, Salford tonight.

Five things we can learn about current English ‘flag wars’ from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. New article by Prof Nadine Rossol @universityofessex.bsky.social for the Society's blog: bit.ly/4pqGZqv. Nadine's is the first in a new occasional RHS blog series on 'History Matters' #Skystorians

Oh. Windsor Castle.

From 27th September to the 30th November a 6.5 metered high figure known as The Hauntings will be placed near the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper. Facing towards the memorial symbolizing all those that never returned home… 📸 Flanders Fields 14-18

🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch. 📝 latest Substack 👇🏻

Fed up of scrolling through Netflix etc to find something half decent that I am returning to DVDs. Tonight I shall mostly be rewatching this 😀

@gardenstuff.bsky.social Some interesting info here about helping bees as autumn approaches. I did this with the sedum in my garden last year but don't know if they used it or not.

@gardenstuff.bsky.social Slowly establishing a herb border (in pots) in a border previously overrun with ivy. The fennel has done really well. Can I crush these seed pods and use in cooking - they smell divine?

Sign up, sign up. #BTSecretSanta #btposse #dogs #dogsofbluesky

Just a reminder that there are still plenty of pieces available in my studio sale. Please do take a look and I hope you find something you like.

10 September 1641 St Ambrose Barlow, born in Manchester, was executed (hanged, drawn and quartered) for being a Catholic Priest. A skull kept at Wardley Hall, Worsley is thought to be his.

@gardenstuff.bsky.social We are on the Isle of Man at the moment and wanted to leave something to brighten a grave but which would withstand the winter winds here. Eventually we decided on a couple of heathers and ivy. Fingers crossed they survive 🤞

This feels like the biggest story from the Guardian's Boris leaks... he took £240k from a Venezuelan hedge fund after meeting Maduro. And having denied he was paid. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Very wet day on the Isle of Man so Eric is doing some indoor practice for the TT 🏍️

Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.

Memorial on Peel Promenade. Fishing off the south coast of Ireland , the crew saw the sinking of the Lusitania and rescued as many as they could. It was 2 hours before help arrived.

Eric has had a bit too much rhubarb cider at the beach bar!