An evening photograph of the west front including the superb door of the Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Germain better known as Selby Abbey. It was one of the oldest and most important Benedictine houses in the north of England pre-dating both York and Durham. It was founded around 1069.

🧵Nun Appleton Hall was the Yorkshire estate of Parliamentary General Thomas Fairfax, where poet Andrew Marvell, born on the 31 March in 1621, worked as a tutor to Mary Fairfax between 1651 and 1653. During this time, Marvell wrote his major country-house poem, "Upon Appleton House

My piece for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk looking forward to the Yorkshire Museum's forthcoming exhibition. It really does promise to be very special. #IronAge #MelsonbyHoard @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social

The Battle of Seacroft Moor likely took place on 30 March 1643 during the First English Civil War. It was a decisive Royalist victory fought on Whinmoor (erroneously named Seacroft Moor by the Parliamentarian commander) near the village of Seacroft, north-east of Leeds.

Church dismantles a huge pipe organ and finds an older history www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I thought I would share a little more about Beverley. A lovely walk is along it's short canal or beck. The beck was mentioned as early as 1296, when the Archbishop of York sought to have fish-weirs removed from the River Hull, so that boats could reach Beverley.

🧵I always used to post a series of paintings over Holy week but they tailed off during Covid. Here are two very different ones for today. ‘Entry into Jerusalem’ is by the Spanish Baroque-period painter Pedro Orrente. (1580-1645), Hermitage Museum. The other, much more recent is

It might not be the first place you would think of looking for a carved sphinx but in the choristers stalls in the Quire of Beverley Minster there she is. It was carved in high-quality, fine-grained oak. The many wooden carvings c.1520 in the minster are

🧵If churches could speak what a story the solitary, St Mary's Chapel at Lead, could tell. Now peaceful, what would it have been like on that Palm Sunday in 1461 as the bloody Battle of Towton was fought within its sight. Whilst the medieval building largely dates to the 14th-century,

The 14th-century Easter Sepulchre in St Patrick’s Church, Patrington, East Yorkshire, is a rare survival of late medieval devotion. Used during Holy Week, it symbolised Christ’s burial, housing a crucifix and consecrated host from Good Friday until Easter morning, when the

🧵'The year is 664, the famous Council of Whitby has just decided in favour of the Roman date of Easter and the Irish abbot of Lindisfarne, Colman, has departed.' The narrative takes up other events in 'the year of the eclipse and the pestilence which followed.' This 12th-century

In parts of Yorkshire Palm Sunday is known as ‘Fig Sunday' with figs and fig pudding eaten. Whilst its origin is now unknown it is possibly derived from the biblical account of Jesus cursing a barren fig tree on his journey into Jerusalem. traditional-yorkshire-recipes.info/fig-sunday-p...

🧵3 posts Father Paul Luniw is an 'internationally recognised master' of the Ukrainian decorative art tradition called pysanky. He was raised in Halifax, Yorkshire in a Ukrainian immigrant community, his parents arriving there in 1948. A pysanka (Psanka) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with

🧵 3 posts After the Third Siege of Pontefract Castle ended in March 1649, the mayor and townspeople of Pontefract petitioned Parliament to demolish the castle. Having endured three devastating sieges during the English Civil War, the town was left impoverished and depopulated. The castle

🧵3 posts: One of my favourite churches St Michael and All Angels, Barton-le-Street is a remarkable example of Norman architecture, originally constructed around 1160 it was extensively rebuilt in 1871 in a romanticised Norman style. For once I agree with Pevsner who described

An interesting piece for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk from writer, presenter and wonderful baker Meryl White who I have been fortunate enough to work with several times over the years and who also wrote for History and Heritage Yorkshire. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/food...

It is that weekend in the year when the fascinating Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum re-opens on Palm Sunday. It is is everything a village museum should be. It has the most wonderful eclectic mix of items in its collection. The Museum Society was formed in 1884 by the Rev.

🧵The Great Flesh Shambles," in York was dedicated to meat production for centuries from medieval times. The current buildings tend to be around 14th/15th century or later. Butchers utilised the narrow buildings' overhanging, shaded architecture to keep meat fresh with slaughterhouses behind. This

Due to my fatigue/neurological problems I fell into a deep sleep as I do early yesterday evening and woke up about 1.30 to a scene of total "slaughter" in my living room. 🤣 It was like something out of a third rate horror movie 🎥. The tug toys made it look even more sinister. Bob the Patterdale

Westgate, one of Wakefield’s principal medieval streets, became a fashionable address for merchants in the 17th and 18th centuries. By the mid-18th century a public house stood on this site, later known as the Elephant and Castle. It was first recorded in 1775 in the London Gazette.

Steps on Otley Chevin in Spring, Tim Green CC BY 2.0 Sadly I couldn't even manage the first four these days.

🧵A Portable jet stall, Whitby. In Victorian times the gemstone was used mainly in memorial jewellery, because of its deep black colour. Whitby Jet, a fossilised wood from the Jurassic period, has been used in the area for over 5,000 years, with evidence of crafting dating back to the Neolithic

🧵The Annunciation window at the Church of St Columba, Topcliffe, is an early masterpiece by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Completed around 1860, it is significant as one of his few works designed before he joined William Morris’s firm and is uniquely signed "E.B. Jones Inv" in the

🧵3 posts A Yorkshire heroine, Margaret Clitherow (1556–1586), the “Pearl of York,” was pressed to death for refusing to plead to harbouring priests. Born Margaret Middleton, she married a York butcher and lived on the Shambles, converting to Catholicism

🧵The print Christ Church and Coal Staith, Leeds (1829) captures the city at full industrial pace. At its centre is one of John Blenkinsop’s rack-and-pinion locomotives pioneered by Salamanca (1812), the first of its kind hauling coal toward the River Aire. This was the Middleton

🧵The Nunwick "layered" landscape near Hutton Conyers, highlights its long-term use from prehistory through the medieval period, with nearby ridge and furrow ploughing indicating extensive farming. The henge 300m north of Nunwick lies on a gravel terrace by the River Ure in the Vale of

🧵6 posts This Palm Sunday sees the anniversary of the Battle of Towton (1461). It stands as a brutal monument to a previous era of warfare. Fought in a blinding snowstorm, it was defined by physical endurance and the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand combat. Success depended on the 1/6

"The Secret Garden" The children's story that has returned to its Yorkshire roots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Copse, Great Smeaton', Yorkshire, 1991, Sepia toned gelatin silver print on photographic paper, Michael Kenna, (b.1953). Image courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc., B2019.16.723

Window in the former Co-operative building in the Akroydon Victorian model village at Boothtown, Halifax. The village was designed in the Gothic style by George Gilbert Scott in 1859 for the workers at the mills of Colonel Edward Akroyd.

Do you have words that appeal to you? One such word is "Intermeddle." You could say interfere or meddle but this has a lovely ring to it. From middle English/Anglo-Norman it is stil in use in legal matters for someone interfering in a deceased's estate. I would love to call someone an Intermeddler.

The Old Hall in Heckmondwike is a rare Grade II listed* medieval building. The building's architecture reflects several centuries of adaptation, Originally a 15th century timber-framed hall-house, it was encased in hammer-dressed stone during the 17th century. It is one of only

One of the astonishing corners of Victorian art in Britain. This pulpit sits inside St Martin-on-the-Hill in Scarborough, a church described as a “hidden Pre-Raphaelite gem.” The entire interior is a collaboration between some of the most important members of the

🧵Dewsbury-born Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836–1925) was a pioneering Victorian physician who revolutionised bedside medicine. As a distinguished Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, a Privy Councillor and a former leader of the Leeds medical

Once the headquarters of the Huddersfield and Bradford Building Society before it closed, High Point, now transformed into an apartment block in Bradford has been named Britain's best brutalist building by a national newspaper. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #architecture #Brutalism #Repurposing

🧵The Packhorse Bridge at Stokesley spans the River Leven with its steep “hogback” arch, dating from the 17th or early 18th century and Grade II listed since 1966. It probably replaced an earlier medieval bridge which served the Pannierman Way, a vital packhorse

Rare items including a printed atlas from 1611 and an original Sherlock Holmes story are among some of the valuable treasures currently being curated in the basement of a Sheffield library. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... #Sheffield #library

🧵When perusing the England's Immigrants 1330-1550 database I was interested to note the number of people from Iceland in Yorkshire especially around Hull and Beverley. Icelanders in 15th-century Yorkshire were drawn by the booming stockfish trade during the so-called “English Century.” Hull,

🧵Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book, published in London in 1744 by Mary Cooper, is the earliest surviving collection of English nursery rhymes. It includes the first printed versions of many familiar verses, alongside others now largely forgotten. It was unusual in that it was published

As we are now in astronomical spring as well as meteorological I am allowed to post a paddling image. This is a charming image from the historic photograph collection of the maritime museum at Greenwich. It dates to c.1910, and shows children paddling at Scarborough watching a fisherman.

🧵A story from the distant and more recent past that should be shared. Founded in 1880, Bradford Reform Synagogue on Bowland Street is the oldest Reform synagogue outside London. Designed by T.H. & F. Healey in an Oriental/Byzantine style, it features red stone stripe. It has been called a

🧵3 posts The Battle of York, 21 March 867, saw the Viking "Great Army" decisively defeat Northumbrian forces, Unlike previous raiding parties the army was a larger-scale invasion force that landed in East Anglia in 865, aiming for conquest. Northumbria was a weakened region due a civil war between

🧵A fascinating exhibition, Making Waves: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Print traces the evolution of Japanese printmaking from the 17th to the 21st century, exploring its techniques and the influence of nature, society and cultural change. The exhibition features over 100 works by renowned 1/3

Eighty-five years ago in early 1941, the bombing of the port of Hull intensified. February raids killed around 20 people, followed by major attacks in March on the 13/14, 14/15 and 18/19. These hit the River Hull corridor, Stoneferry, and St Andrew’s Dock, where

When the US head of intelligence services comments that "The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president," and that president is Trump you know the world has real problems. The lunatics really have taken over the asylum. Thank goodness for cabinet government

The former St Paul's Church in Kexby, North Yorkshire, is a Grade II listed Early Gothic revival church built in 1852 by architect F.C. Penrose for Lord Wenlock. Replacing a medieval chapel dedicated to St Mary it feature a northwest bell turret, and

Spring arrives not in one green, but in a thousand, fresh lime, soft moss, sharp emerald unfurling across its rolling green hills and patchwork fields. Image Dry Stone Walls. Grassington / alh1/ CC BY-ND 2.0 #Spring #landscape #Yorkshire

🧵The Shadow Justice Secretary described (Muslim) public prayers as an act of domination. Outdoor services and processions, particularly Whit Walks and Rogation processions, have also been key features of English Christian worship, blending faith with community

'Mithras sacrificing at the vernal equinox' drawn by William Stukeley (1687-1765), the antiquarian, physician, and clergyman. The sketch illustrates a Roman relief sculpture found in Micklegate York in 1747 when a foundation was being dug The original sculpture is in the

🧵 (3 posts) I’m completely exhausted and need to get these neurological and fatigue problems sorted. The right side of my body often feels numb or full of pins and needles, or as if it’s in a vice my hands and feet are especially bad. I have an appointment with a sleep clinic consultant and tests