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The roof at Ely Cathedral #History #HistoryMatters

George V wall mounted post box at the Brunswick Street entrance of India Buildings, Liverpool. Highly unusual in the colour and quite beautiful Still in use today. #History #HistoryMatters

Spotted in Stow on the Wold A sealed Edward VII postbox next to a refurbished box with the new solar powered top with Charles III door #History #HistoryMatters

An Edward VII postbox Aldingham, Lancashire #History #HistoryMatters

A George V Post Box In Greenwich, looking towards Canary Wharf. #History #HistoryMatters

A Victorian Penfold Post Box Coat of Arms with a welsh/english day plate In Monmouth if you wish to view it. #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 1155 Henry the Young King, the eldest son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, is born in London. #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 1824 Charles Blondin was born in Saint-Omer, France. 30 June 1859 he became the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope, a feat that made him an international celebrity and which he repeated on many occasions. #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 1900 118-day siege of the British garrison at Ladysmith in Natal during the Anglo-Boer War ended with a British victory. It led to scenes of jubilation never before seen on the streets of Britain. #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 1931 Oswald Mosley formed the “New Party”. It soon became the extreme Right-wing British Union of Fascists. It was originally seen as a clone of Mussolini’s Fascist Party. #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 1933 Hitler’s government issued the Reichstag Fire Decree. It effectively curtailed civil rights in Germany and paved the way to Hitler’s personal dictatorship. It remained in force for the entire Nazi period from 1933 to 1945. #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 1975 A Northern Line underground train crashed at Moorgate station killing 43 people. The train, arriving from Drayton Park, was packed with commuters when it overshot the platform and ploughed into a dead-end tunnel. #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in Stockholm. He was shot twice after leaving a cinema with his wife at 11:30 PM. His wife was wounded in the attack but survived. Palme’s assassin has never been found. #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 2013 Pope Benedict XVI became the first Pope to resign since 1415. #History #HistoryMatters

Bygone days on the Woodhead Line A rag and bone man waits at the Dinting Lane level crossing as B1 61188 passes heading towards Glossop in around 1957. #History #HistoryMatters h/t @WoodheadRoute

28 February 1918 2nd Lt George Davey Howells of the 1 Bn Monmouthshire Regiment was killed in action and buried in the Cement House Cemetery. George was 22 George is also remembered at @kebleoxford.bsky.social #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

29 February 1920 Pte Arthur Ledger formerly of the Machine Gun Corps died of an illness contracted whilst serving. He was buried in Stockport Cemetery. He is remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial and on the Sale War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

28 February 1917 Captain Samuel Percy Smith of 1/5 Bn South Staffordshire regiment was killed in action and buried in Berles New Military Cemetery. Samuel is also remembered at his old college @caiuscollege.bsky.social #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

29 February 1916 2nd Lt Cecil Herbert Stileman of 5 sqdn Royal Flying Corps was killed in a flying accident and was buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. Cecil is also remembered at @pembroke1347.bsky.social #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

29 February 1916 Sapper William Hanna (70076) of the Royal Engineers was killed in action and buried in the Poperinghe New Military Cemetery. He was 25. William is remembered on the Manchester University War Memorial on the Quad #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Borehamwood Studios Borehamwood Studios were built during the 1930s depression and renamed when MGM bought it. In 1948, the Borehamwood Studios was one of 25 'film factories' in the UK. When its ten film stages shut, the industry lost 20% of its studio space. #History #HistoryMatters

Borgund Stave Church Built around 1180 and dedicated to the Apostle Andrew. The church is exceptionally well preserved and is the most distinctive stave church in Norway. Built without using a single nail #History #HistoryMatters

Castello di Sperlinga, Sicily. The Castle of Sperlinga was probably built around the year 1000. It is partly dug out of the huge rock and was also called the Royal Rock Castle. #History #HistoryMatters

That batty old bird Esther Ranzen is blaming those of us with a faith for "blocking" the assisted dying bill. Well this a list of those non-religious folk who think that it is a poorly written bad piece of legislation 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

No more Dirty Business ! The public, MPs and Environmental Groups have said NO to 14 years of illegal Thames Water sewage pollution. Email Ofwat now, so that they can't ignore us @weownit.org.uk weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...

27 February 1868 Brixham station opened at the end of a GWR broad gauge branch to Churston by the Torbay & Brixham Railway, as the station for the town provided by the Dartmouth & Torbay Railway was over 2 miles away. Closed 13 May 1963, photo Bernard Mills #HistoryMatters #History

Jubilee 45655 'Keith' hauls a mixed freight off the former LNWR line from Stockport towards Guide Bridge station. Not sure if this is going via Edgeley or Tiviot Dale Date: 7th November 1964 Photo by Brian Magilton. h/t @WoodheadRoute #History #HistoryMatters

A shot of the cab of Whistler 40088, which spent time at Crewe Heritage Centre. Purchased by the Class Forty Preservation Society, and more recently sold to the Cab Yard, a specialist sub-group of the Llanelli & Mynydd Mawr Railway. h/t @miles_chains #History #HistoryMatters

Spring 1944 George Patton making a speech to US troops, Armagh, Northern Ireland. #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

Stockport Station, Spring 1987 When Stockport had a direct link with Stalybridge (Staly Vegas), Leeds and beyond. Now it is a Parliamentary line - criminal ht/@StockportTrains #History #HistoryMatters

27 February 1812 The Poet Lord Byron gave his first speech as a member of the House of Lords. He defended the Luddite protests against the building of factories. He spoke specifically against the Frame Breaking Act of 1812 which had applied the death penalty to machine breaking. #HistoryMatters

27 February 1848 Hubert Parry was born in Bournmouth. Best known as the composer of the music for the 'hymn' Jerusalem which was based on William Blake’s poem And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time. #History #HistoryMatters

27 February 1868 Conservative Benjamin Disraeli became Prime Minister for the first time. The only British Prime Minister who was Jewish at birth, though he was later converted to Christianity by his father. #History #HistoryMatters

27 February 1900 Labour Representation Committee (LRC) was formed in London. It was based on the assumption that Parliament could and should be used as an instrument for advancing workers’ interests. The LRC would later become the Labour Party. #History #HistoryMatters

27 February 1902 John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, USA. Awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings”. #History #HistoryMatters #Literature

27 February 1933 The Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, was set on fire. A Dutch Communist called Marinus van der Lubbe was convicted of the crime and executed, but whether he acted alone or was part of a Nazi conspiracy remains debated among historians. #HistoryMatters #History

27 February 1951 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution restricted future US Presidents to a maximum of 2-4 year terms of office. The incumbent Harry S Truman was exempted from the law. #History #HistoryMatters

27 February 1933 The German Reichstag building is destroyed by a fire set by the Nazis as a pretext for repression. #History #HistoryMatters

27 February 1916 Pte Ernest Cooper (10240) of 18 (Pals) Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and buried in Suzanne Communal Cemetery Extension. He was 26 Ernest is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 February 1917 Lt Henry Marsden Smith of 1 Bn The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment died as a prisoner at the Feldlaz, St Quentin, of wounds received in action. He was 24. Henry is also remembered at Corpus Christi College, Oxford #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 February 1915 Lt Oswald Griffith of the Royal Field Artillery was killed in action and buried in Nieuwkerke Churchyard Oswald is remembered on the @bangoruniversity.bsky.social and Bangor War Memorials #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

1978 Platforms 1 and 2 of London Victoria #History #HistoryMatters

26 February 1821 John Keats was buried in Rome #History #HistoryMatters

25 February 1841 Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, in the Haute-Vienne region of France. French artist, painter and figurehead of Impressionism, and he was also a sculptor. #History #HistoryMatters

Manchester City's old stadium, Maine Road, Moss Side, Manchester. It has been demolished but the Maine Road pitch centre circle spot still remains in the middle of the housing that was developed, in its place. #History #HistoryMatters

A very rare picture of Queen Victoria and Napoleon III of France photographed together in 1855 during the Crimean War. #History #HistoryMatters

26 February 1939 Eleanor Roosevelt indignantly quit her membership in Daughters of the American Revolution after they refused to let the great Marian Anderson, an African American, perform in Constitution Hall DC #History #HistoryMatters

James Stewart with his Father at the family hardware store in Indiana - Pennsylvania, shortly after returning from fighting in #WW2 (1945). #History #HistoryMatters

Tsundoku is a Japanese word referring to the practice of accumulating books that are bought but not yet read. Guilty as charged ...........