My #book on #WifeSelling also describes the punishment of #DuckingScolds. Based on the idea the women were overheated, so needed cooling off. No age was cited for any victims so I wonder if the victims were suffering #menopausal #HotFlushes #WomensHistory #RealLife

#LeominsterPriory #PloughMonday

I read @JDVance #autobiography and what stood out was the absence of any mention of #music. What life does a teenager have without pop music to dance to, to drift off to sleep or fall in love to?

Love these #pigeon nests @CanningtonPriory

Love these! @CanningtonPriory #gargoyles used as #pigeon #nests #churchcrawling

#bugs trapped in #Churches

#Charfield #pareidolia

#MemorialMonday #Chancery much neglected area of history, the battle to settle legacies, mostly for widows & orphans #Stone

#MemorialMonday #Stone #churchcrawling

#MysteryTrade #Olveston any guesses for far left? #Woodnesday

#MemorialMonday. Only one I tecall that features the title of a #novel #churchcrawling

Am fascinated by rare close up images of #Steeple #Roosters. This has a red comb #Elberton

Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales 😮🥳. The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

9 Mans Morris from #NewportMuseum

Have notified followers on my @X accounts I’m deleting them today. Hoping to see some of them here.

Gave this book to local @GoodShed. Valuable details on how to restore #armour, a bit niche but lots of details on how to clean & care for things with household items like #vinegar

#Bristol #poem by self proclaimed #Genius @RichardSsvage who died in their debtors prison

#HomelessMan #Spitalfields

#PhilosophicalPoliceman from #TheManWhoWasThursday @GKChesterton #AmReading

#Jesus called #MuchMarkle

“I don’t believe in immorality, he said at last, “but if, after all this, you were to break your word, God would make a hell only for you, to howl in forever.” #quote @GKChesterton #TheManWhoWasThursday #AmReading

Incredible #crime #epic. @RobertPattinson at peak as man who tries to free his brother with learning difficulties after bank robbery goes wrong. Grim, dark, relentless. On @Mubi

#StainedGlassSunday #ChewtonMendip

#ChewtonMendip #SundaySermons

#Litton #SundaySermons

#HintonBlewitt #SundaySermons

www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bgb... @StephenStills 4+ 20

Beyond farce! Famously rainy islands facing #drought @UK failing water companies

#SteepleSaturday the gloriously busy #StJohn, main church of @Cardiff

A bit niche but wonderful #book @Tir by @CarwynGraves #landscape #history

My favourite #historian’s latest @TobyGreen

Looks interesting @Waterstones #churchcrawlng #Wales

@cathamclarke.bsky.social still featured in @waterstones.bsky.social #Cardiff

www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dgq... @Metropolis was set in 2026

#SteepleSaturday #StNicholas #Gloucester now in care of @TheCCT former church of the port

My #book on the giant #automata by #HenryBridges which toured for decades in #Britain & #Americas demonstrating latest technology #astronomy which inspired viewers to experiment & develop new ideas. Crucial to #Enlightenment & #IndustrialRevolution. In all formats from online & physical stores

#SteepleSaturday #Batsford

#SteepleSaturday #BurtonOnTheHill

Found this from #Lockdown. #Lessons from #dogs

www.facebook.com/share/r/1Aaj... every home needs these

The best known site of #WifeSales was #SmithfieldMarket in London. They were often witnessed by #French officers on leave during #NapoleonicWars. This led to the belief it was commonplace. See my book #FrolicksomeWomen&TroublesomeWives in all formats from physical & online bookstores

The best known site of #WifeSelling was #SmithfieldMarket in London. During the #NapoleonicWars French officers as POW’s were often granted leave and witnessed the events, and suggested it was commonplace. See my book @FrolicksomeWomen&TroublesomwWives in all formats from physical & online stores

#FontsOnFriday #churchcrawling

Wow! @SorryBaby is Oscar nominated!

www.facebook.com/share/r/14TQ... #plague #Tenby

#AdoorableThursday #Littlemore

#AdoorableThursday #MagdaleneCollege #Linenfold

#AdoorableThursday #Magdalene quad

#TheStoriesWeTell by @SarahPolley I recall being impressed by this on release and more so now having been a writer for so long. An incredible film about her own family especially her late mother whose story is at the heart of this multilayered documentary. #MustSee @mubiuk.bsky.social