Just a week away! There are some tickets left :) #ArtDeco #SeasideHistory #UKCoast

It's today and there are a few spaces left if you'd like to visit the #Georgian seaside with us

Two men sunbathing, August bank holiday, Blackpool, 1971, by Don McPhee.

Coming soon! Preserving Our Seaside Art Deco Heritage, , 12 November 2025. Thrilled to be part of this collaborative online event with @seasidenetwork.bsky.social Speakers @seasideferry.bsky.social @allanbrodie.bsky.social Nigel Wilson, and me! Details below 🌞

In two days! Very much looking forward to speaking on Britain's Seafront Buildings for @sogorg.bsky.social 🌞

Coming soon! Preserving Our Seaside Art Deco Heritage, , 12 November 2025. Thrilled to be part of this collaborative online event with @seasidenetwork.bsky.social Speakers @seasideferry.bsky.social @allanbrodie.bsky.social Nigel Wilson, and me! Details below 🌞

Me too! Will be watching online with a pal, drinks and snacks. #HouseHistory #Birmingham #BirminghamHistory

Have only just read about this- lovely news! #Devon's Woody Bay station (1898) receives Grade II status from Historic England: ''the best-surviving example of a station on the former Lynton & Barnstaple Railway.'' #UKCoast #Railway200 #RailwayHistory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun. joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Well, hello there... A cool customer in Barmouth... #UKCoast #Wales #seaside

Save the date! ONLINE EVENT Preserving Our Seaside Art Deco Heritage, 12 Nov 7pm. An @artdecosocuk.bsky.social online event with @seasidenetwork.bsky.social. 4 speakers: @seasideferry.bsky.social @allanbrodie.bsky.social Nigel Wilkins, and me! More info and booking details 👇

#BIRMINGHAM: Handsworth ''is hugely significant in the Black British story – a history seemingly unknown to Tory MP Robert Jenrick – as revealed on a guided walk that remembers Nelson Mandela and Benjamin Zephaniah.'' #LocalHistory #SocialHistory www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

[email protected] looking for case studies demonstrating how the #heritage sector is helping to create vibrant, creative, thriving, and sustainable places for people to live, work, and enjoy - if you can help, please contact Neil Andrews [email protected] by 17 October

#BLACKPOOL: Tremendous tram/ transport treat trips are imminent, as the HMS Blackpool and vintage double-decker Tram 717 returns to the seafront for the Lightpool Festival (begins 15th Oct). www.blackpooltransport.com/historic-tra...

Fancying some super seasonal spookiness? Here are a few atmospheric heritage sites: 'Six “spooky” places across the UK.' Other than No. 6, the list is a tad South East/ South biased though- any suggestions for sites elsewhere? www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/six-...

Lovely! Also a chance for us to shamelessly plug our publication 'Doorways in the Dales' - details at www.yvbsg.org.uk/publications....

For #FindsFriday- Rather lovely mid-20th century tourist salt and pepper shaker, Llandudno Museum & Art Gallery. Perfect for fish 'n' chips! llandudnomuseum.co.uk/20th-century... #SeasideHistory #Wales #Llandudno #20thCentury

I have a set of hand-drawn comics/gossip sheets/newspapers donated alongside our aluminium foundry at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social, dating from (I think) late 1940s. Does anyone know any lit that will help me explore this as a source? I've found work on company mags but this is very different.

This looks great! Pop to #Ilfracombe Museum to see their exhibition on The Holiday Industry, featuring 1870s VR experience of the glamorous luxury Ilfracombe Hotel! Plus how The Holiday Trade influenced the town www.ilfracombemuseum.co.uk#iLightbox[ga... #SeasideHistory #LocalHistory #Devon #UKCoast

OH WE DO LIKE TO STROLL ALONG THE PROM< PROM, PROM! I'll be giving this ONLINE talk on seafront buildings, 23 Oct 2pm- a jolly post-lunch slice of seafront buildings your ancestors may have encountered & enjoyed in years past. #LocalHistory #FamilyHistory #Architecture #SeasideHistory #UKCoast

Happy 60th Birthday to the BT Tower! Built 1961-65 to the designs of Eric Bedford, Chief Architect at the Ministry of Public Works, the 582ft telecommunications tower is one of Britain's most distinctive post-war buildings and after being sold in 2024, is set to be converted to a destination hotel.

To celebrate #LincolnshireDay a free Lincolnshire book,in Kindle/computer/phone version. (Paperback also for sale!)'Village' -stories of cheerful survival in 6 houses, cottage to Manor, 1841 - 1971, witches, wheelbarrows, dogs, spherical sheep & our pioneering historian Mrs Rudkin! LINK IN COMMENTS!

Thank yoooou!!!!! My ageing process was splendid- historic riverside village perambulations, lashings of pink prosecco, home-made coffee & walnut cake that didn't quite tower but was excellent. Stretched the celebrations out over a week, incl Black Sabbath Ballet & afternoon tea in a Grand Hotel :D

#PerryBarr #BirminghamHistory A three-bedroom property for sale in Birmingham for £440 – a steal! Hold on, those are February 1939 prices. Ref - Modern House & Home, LF 41.8 #LibraryofBham

ADSUK member and modeller @PaulzSmith1 has written an excellent piece on how he created a scale model of the 1937 Rio cinema in Sheerness. See how his painstaking work brings this icon to life which includes street scenes & other buildings: https://tinyurl.com/uus6n3m

House History for Beginners🔗, a half-day #HouseHistory course led by @dunedingenie.bsky.social Lorna Kinnaird, will take place on Tuesday 30 September 2025 at Eastwood House in Giffnock, East #Renfrewshire. Follow the link for more info and to book. #OnePlaceWednesday

Fab canal trip on Sun courtesy of Canal & River Trust/ Birmingham Heritage Week with visit to Icknield Port Rd GII listed stables, covered dock, workshops, etc. The Trust volunteers were utterly fantastic & was interesting to see canalside regen up close...plus the rain stayed away! #BHW2025

So the DFS sale really has been going on as long as we thought

Really looking forward to this! Am doing a Druids Heath walking talk beforehand (will zip into town on the no. 50 bus...).

We're in the midst of Birmingham Heritage Week- a fantastic programme of walks, talks and other delights. What have you attended so far, and what do you have coming up? #BHW25

Are any buildings in your UK #OnePlaceStudies (or elsewhere but connected with people who lived in your study places) open this weekend as part of #HeritageOpenDays?

For #FindsFriday- a curious fellow, but very creative- a home-made teddy bear sewn from a khaki woollen army blanket, 1942. From Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's Human History collection www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/collection/h... #WorldWarII #Childhood

Glorious views at a site visit yesterday. It rained/ sunned interchangably, but there were big skies, intriguing clouds and sweeping landscapes a-plenty.

I love this enigmatic-faced fellow carved into this stone font. But I cannot recall where it is! #FontsOnFriday

Completing a rural #HouseHistory with tall tales of escaped German POWs hiding in the barn, complete with plane crash & complicit farmer. The truth is less Boys' Own Adventure but no less interesting. Such stories are v much part of the house's history! POW camps: www.theguardian.com/news/datablo...

Dawlish Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, where my Mom was born. Bit later than shown in this image though! #postcard #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

Spending a fair bit of time in landscapes lately. Here's a snapshot of some recent Clent Hills action. #Worcestershire

I am drawn to this relatively fancy but out of place door canopy every time I pass it. (And its 17th century/Victorian 'date' 😜). #Birmingham

🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

They say that the owner of Stott Hall Farm refused to move. In retaliation, the workers built the M62 motorway around it, leaving it stranded. In reality, a geological fault was identified close to the farm. So the motorway had to be split into separate carriageways.

Morecambe's feeling of being ‘left behind’ is stronger than ever: ‘It has echoes of happiness: life for gen Z in the seaside town I once called home'. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#SummerHolidays ahoy! For #YorkshireDay, some lovely bright mid-C20th postcards of Yorkshire #seaside resorts- Redcar, Bridlington, Filey & Scarborough- evoking memories of ice cream cones, sand between the toes & strong whiffs of suntan lotion that you just don't get any more. And donkeys in hats.

Happy #YorkshireDay! Let's celebrate the county's fabulous vernacular architecture (Worsbrough, Threshfield, Beck Hole, Haworth).

We were amongst 1000s lining Broad Street today to pay our respects to this son of #Birmingham. We were near the start of the route & when Bostin Brass Band struck up with Iron Man, well...emotions all round as the cortege passed. Such a sense of unity & belonging. Musical Heritage... #OzzyOsbourne

Another hard day in the office... Project team meeting at Sandwich Guildhall Museum for 'Let's do the time walk again! Exploring the East Kent Coast Through Digital Heritage.'

Lulworth cove, Dorset Ernest Haslehust ca.1920

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Giant thistles, River Rea, #Birmingham The pic don't show them too well, but Tilly is there for scale!

#OzzyOsbourne When the news broke yesterday me & OH sat silent for a while. Our musical tastes are like a venn diagram- Black Sabbath (a band I first heard via my Dad). sits somewhere in our intersection. Didn't think this would come so soon after Back to the Beginning. But what a farewell eh.