The #mill#wallalong the #rivergo back to the #cotton#weaving#historyof the #northwestof #England.#nationaltrust/ #StyalMill in #Wilmslow#Cheshire.#Photographyby Darren Smith Photography a #local#photographer.Visit the #websiteto see more like this. #architecturephotography

Winter Sunset Seen on a local walk in 2022. #AlphabetChallenge #Themes #WeekSforSunset #landscapephotography #nature

#mowcop #staffordshire #cheshire #castle #folly #uk #landscape #travel #photography #blackandwhite 18th century Mow Cop Castle Folly on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border...

Watching the boat zip round the little puddle that is Redesmere Sail numbers 📍Redesmere #alphabetchallenge #weekzforzero #photography #sailing #sheclicksnet #photohour #cheshire

Another Congleton Edge #landscape #landscapepainting #Cheshire #art

Short Eared #Owl at #Parkgate #Cheshire @rspb.bsky.social @rspbburtonmere.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk #birds #birdingUK #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #owls

@findmypast.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp - on a Saturday [don't ask!] Last Roundup of 2025 Nothing new at the BNA for #Cheshire this week 😔 See screenshot below with #AltText as always New Royal Navy Records at @findmypast.bsky.social but no listing on the site as yet 😔😔

The Many Faces of Christmas Day! For #PalacesAndGardens theme of #PalacePicks #EastCoastKin #photography #carving #wood #tudor #history #collage #SpekeHall #Liverpool #LymePark #Cheshire #SamlesburyHall #Lancashire (Android phone camera)

Our member Rowan Patel has been studying Cheshire’s forest glass industry between the late thirteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with three articles and one forthcoming. 1/

Rock carvings, Frodsham Hello Bluesky! The sandstone rock in Cheshire is quite soft and this particular outcrop in #Frodsham is covered in graffiti, some quite old. Here in 1907 A. Render added his name in a lovely script. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero #carvings #Cheshire #PhotoOfTheDay

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

You can drive 20 miles an hour! Happy Christmas Eve, everybody! Just a little speed limit sign on a quiet road. Why go faster? It's a lovely road!!! Red Poppy was a fundraiser in November 2021. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero #roads

Cheshire Cheese 💛 Merry Christmas to all our friends, members and followers who celebrate the holiday. May your Christmas include some Cheshire Cheese! Our little postcard from the 1980s of a stall at the old Chester Market. #Christmas2026 #localhistory #cheese #postcards

Chester 10 Miles Hello Tuesday Alphabetters! A really good milestone in #Tarporley village, #Cheshire on the High Street. Great that it has survived from the days of the old turnpike roads and parish boundaries. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero #milestones

Day 23 of @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #AdventCalendar2025 🎁🎄It's Quiz-mas🎄🎁 ⛄🤶Cartoon/animated characters today🤶⛄ Last day tomorrow, so planning a few extra fun questions!!!!

Happy Winter Solstice folks. #WinterSolstice BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4... Thousands watch as Sun rises over Stonehenge on winter solstice - BBC News

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

Day 21 of @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #AdventCalendar2025 🎄❄️It's Quiz-Mas❄️🎄 ❄️⛄For Winter Solstice, Love is all around! ⛄❄️

Cheshire Train Station, 2025 In October this year I met an Australian friend and we visited #Disley in Cheshire. We've been doing some historical research together and it was very nice to visit the place we had been studying. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast #trains #ClassicMono

Woodside seen as possible solution to Everton stadium transport issues www.birkenhead.news/woodside-see...

St Peter’s church Formby Beautiful wooden ceilings. #ceilingsonsundays

Day 15 of @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #AdventCalendar2025 ❄️🎄 It's Quiz-mas🎄🔔 🎅🤶Enjoy and good luck! 🎅🤶

Dale Lane, Delph, Saddleworth, in winter, painting by John McCombs.

Arcade, Chester 2025 Hello Alphabetters! The Grosvenor St Michael's Row Arcade always has very polished Christmas decorations! This year is no exception! It was lovely! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #Cheshire #Chester #baubles #shopping

Other work of the Ladybird artists Redwings in Winter Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 14 ‘Ponies in the Snow’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

#WhatsOn this week at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social Last #Helpdesks of 2025 - #Chester, #Tameside, #Wallasey Online: 🚩Tracing your Nursing Ancestors with @juderhodes.bsky.social Register 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events/fhsc-... 🚩Family Historian #DiscussionGroup Details 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events.html

The Grade 2 Listed former Working Men’s Institute, Handbridge, Chester looking grand in the winter sunshine. The building, known locally as the ‘Boys’ Club’, was designed by prominent Chester architect Thomas Meakin Lockwood and built in 1895. @clha.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

How might this resource be useful? Well, it is to us: using it, we have been able to pin down the military careers of landholders - if you are lucky enough to have a family you can trace to the 15th century with a distinctive name - and might be helpful for #Genealogy #LocalHistory, etc. 🗃️

Day 12 of @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #AdventCalendar2025 🎄🎄🎄 it's Quiz-mas 🎄🎄🎄 Collective nouns today - good luck

The Hive launches ‘Believe’ to bring Christmas magic to Wirral children www.birkenhead.news/the-hive-lau...

Throughout December we’ll be celebrating ‘Festive Fridays’, sharing the most tenuous links to festive-themed archaeological sites in the care of the National Trust! We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI

Winter in Cheshire, by Charles Tunnicliffe Our mild wet winter is well represented in this painting by C.F. #Tunnicliffe (1901 - 1979), a son of #Cheshire from Langley near Macclesfield. Image taken from "What to look for in Winter" by Ladybird published in 1959. #Art #Winter #localhistory #nature

Rye Top, Saddleworth, painting by Russel Howarth (1927-2020).

Christmas Lights, 2025 Tasteful overhead Christmas lights in a Cheshire village. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #ClassicMono #lamppost #PhotoOfTheDay #Monochrome #Cheshire

Comic actor Harry Worth's famous window sequence - first used in his 1960s TV show Here's Harry - was filmed on St Ann's Square, Manchester, at Hector Powes tailor's shop.

The splendour that is #Rochdale Town Hall

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 7 ‘Frost’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 11 ‘Mam Tor’ Artist: SR Badmin

Snowflake Light Hello Alphabetters! Here's a snowflake light, so less cold than the real thing! From The Glow at #Delamere Forest in 2021. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #ArtInstallations #lights #Xmas #Cheshire

Trow live in mounds called Trowie Knowes, venturing out at dusk to play music. The best fiddle music on Orkney and Shetland has been gifted by the Trows more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore" #bookologythursday #folklore

Bobby on a windy day at Castlerigg stone circle #cumbria #archaeology #dogs

Giant Bauble, Chester 2022 This lovely, glittery piece was in central Chester and lit up a dark space very nicely! Oh, and you could stand inside it! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #Cheshire #PublicArt #FairyLights

JCAS vol 96 - Invitation for Papers Vol 95 of our journal will be published in January, and we are now inviting papers for vol 96 for 2026. Our remit is the archaeology, historical architecture and history of pre-1974 Cheshire.

Day 9 of the @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social #AdventCalendar2025 🎄❄️🎄It's Quiz-mas 🎄❄️🎄 🤶🤶🤶How will you do today? 🎅🎅🎅

Front pages of this week's Knutsford Guardian and Northwich and Winsford Guardian on sale Thursday📰 #TomorrowsPapersToday #Cheshire @knutsfordguardian.bsky.social @northwichguardian.bsky.social

#HiilfortsWednesday and a local favourite of mine. A beautiful walk especially on a sunny autumn day #Cheshire #SandstoneTrail

The Finery of Lady Newton for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #RedGreenGold #EastCoastKin #photography #LymePark #Cheshire #fineart #Baccani #C19th #history (Android phone camera)

The #buildingon the #corner.A #localbusinessbeing #renovatedin #NewMillsin the #peakdistrict,shot in #blackandwhite.Shot by a #local#Cheshire#photographer.#blackandwhitephotography#architecturephotography#architecture#photography.#ordera #print#imagefrom us