This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me. I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

💥12 months ago Britain's last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, shut down after 50 years powering the national grid. We can now confirm that C20's listing application for Ratcliffe's 8 cooling towers has been rejected by DCMS, while their demolition has been approved.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 8: Glass - stained glass window in St Michael's Church, #Macclesfield designed by Morris & Co, dedicated to Lt John Close-Brooks, 1st Bn Life Guards, kia 30 Oct 1914 #WWI @cheshire1418.bsky.social www.cheshireroll.co.uk/soldier/?i=1...

#31daysofgraves Day 7: Angel - I'm cheating here, reusing a previous post, but nurses are often referred to as 'angels' and I can't think of a better photo to use

#31daysofgraves Day 6: gender - Maggie & Lily Gaskell, plot M9721, #Macclesfield cemetery, died while serving at 2nd Western General Hospital, Manchester. As women, they were not recognised as CWGC war casualties until we submitted evidence. www.cwgc.org/find-records... www.cwgc.org/find-records...

🎼 Heron, I’m a heron And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we’re out together dancing, beak to beak 🎵 The one on the left is Fred. A stare like no other, that one’s got.

Day 5: Bird - Bonus. #31DaysOfGraves This is an Avocet, featured in the corner of a cremation stone.

#31DaysOfGraves - Day 5 Birds Not a gravestone as such but a huge carving from a tree trunk of a small bird (a wren I think) in Macclesfield Cemetery, Cheshire. Several of my wife's ancestors are buried nearby...

#31DaysofGraves Day 5: Bird - no bird imagery but remembered on his parents' gravestone in plot X15355 in #Macclesfield Cemetery is Eddie Woodcock of the New Zealand Army Service Corps, kia #WWI 20 Sept 1916 www.cheshireroll.co.uk/soldier/?i=1...

#31DaysOfGraves Day 4: Languages - The original gravestone of Henri Thoremans who served with the Belgian Army in #WWI and buried in #Macclesfield cemetery in 1918, plot JJ21393. @cheshire1418.bsky.social www.cheshireroll.co.uk/soldier/?i=3...

Trying to catch up....

#31DaysOfGraves Day 3: Tomb - The tomb of Thomas Lawton in plot A53 of #Macclesfield Cemetery. Behind it in plot A223 is the grave of Ellen and David Barratt with a memorial to their son Cyril, killed in action #WWI 4 Sept 1916 @cheshire1418.bsky.social www.cheshireroll.co.uk/soldier/?i=8...

#31DaysOfGraves Day 2: Nautical - I don't have a gravestone with a nautical theme so here is a Signaller in the Royal Navy who lost his life in #WWI on 17th September 1917 and is buried in plot X19366 in #Macclesfield Cemetery @cheshire1418.bsky.social www.cheshireroll.co.uk/soldier/?i=1...

#31DaysOfGraves Day 1 Flower - two columns of flowers and foliage adorn the gravestone of John Millward, husband of Sarah and father of James William who was killed in action Oct 2 1918. Plot Y16884, Macclesfield Cemetery www.cheshireroll.co.uk/soldier/?i=2...

Left to right: architects A. Stewart Walker, Leonard Schultze, Ely Jacques Kahn, William Van Alen, Ralph Walker, D.E.Ward and Joseph H. Freelander dressed as the buildings they designed at the 1931 Beaux Arts ball.

@familytreeplus.bsky.social @ancestryhour.bsky.social @chiddickstree.bsky.social Some nostalgia for you - sorting through my mum's cupboards and came across these first editions of Yesterday and Practical Family History from the 1990s!

By a complete fluke I am online and it's #GenHour! Hello everyone and a belated happy new year to you all!

An evening boost for this! 👇

Common sense has prevailed for once. Phew!

A festive reminder that Ancestry transcriptions are often appalling. I really wanted Hogmanay High Jinks to be a person. But no. It's the title of an article about New Year which Ancestry has got wrong. #Genealogy

Mitie say they can't pay railways cleaners more "beyond the annual uplift costed to the commercial contract” For year to March 2024 Revenue £4.5billion, up 11% Profit £130.9million, up from £91million Dividends paid £44million, up 57% ie. they can't pay more due to greed via @rmtunion.bsky.social

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has supported Parkinson's UK by buying a copy of With Love from Grace since it was released last year. You can still buy the book from Amazon. mybook.to/WithLoveFrom...

Choosing books for my Xmas wish list - any suggestions for a good #Genealogy #DNA book? Really should make an effort to get to grips with it!

Exciting news - hot off the press! The kindle edition of @janetfew.bsky.social’s book ‘Putting Your Ancestors in their Place’ has just (this afternoon) been published! 👉🏻https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DNXWX8X9/

Anyone got a railway carman in their tree? Just found this website for the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway with a useful copy of the rule book for Carmen, Vanguards, Truck-horse Drivers and Stablemen (1903), gives an insight into their work and working conditions www.lbscr.org/Operation/Ru...

#Genealogy intro: Years researching: about 40 Hobbyist or pro: hobbyist Fun fact/Wildest discovery: One of my Spridgeons has a road in Long Eaton named after him; another won a prize in an 1840 agricultural show for 'the best 4 stalks of rhubarb' My niche/s: Macclesfield WWI memorials, Spridgeon ONS

In WW2, the British government mobilized to create a global, distributed logistics chain aimed solely at keeping Britain supplied with one resource. Flagged as a critical war effort, at times it carried a shipping priority higher than munitions. That resource was Tea. 🧵 /1 (Image: IWM D 10405)

Alstom is marking Remembrance Day today, 11th November, with a special tribute to Crewe's railway workers who lost their lives in both world wars. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social assisted with research www.railadvent.co.uk/2024/11/trib...

Have you ever been frustrated by a #Genealogy transcription howler, I’m sure like me you all have. Now is your chance to vent your frustration and send me your best/worst transcription errors to [email protected] and you might just feature in Family Tree Magazine #FamilyTree #History

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#CheshireFamHist Exciting news! Construction begins this month on the two new history centres in Chester & Crewe as part of #Cheshire’s Archives: A Story Shared, these centres will preserve and celebrate Cheshire’s heritage www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/news/cheshir...

Spent all afternoon wrestling with QuarkXPress crashing every time I tried to open a file (tried several; all failed). Concluded I'll have to try the last resort - uninstall and reinstall ☹️ Wish me luck!

Whoa - logged on and found 37 new people following me! What's going on? And no, they're not all spam accounts 😂

Oh dear! Just in case I didn't already have enough to do, I have inexplicably decided to input all my books to LibraryThing, so I can check whether I already have a book before buying it (an admirable aim but I mostly remember anyway) So, 100 books done, a million to go....