A dry day. Productive couple of hours in the garden - pruned buddleia and tidied savory and oregano. Planted a pot bound blueberry in a sheltered spot.The robin came to help as usual.

Thame war memorial plaque. St. Mary’s Church, Thame, Oxfordshire. Boer War. #LestWeForget

The recording of Dr Nicholas Dixon's presentation is now available (until February 28th) for members to watch, via the Members' Area of our website. Not a member? Want to watch this and a host of other recorded webinars on #OnePlaceStudies? Join us and join in, for just £10 a year!

I don't like Cricket...I love it! Hello everyone, a new week, how marvellous! Here's a photograph of a pair of cricket screens at rest at #Christleton Cricket Club from 2024. Have a lovely day! 🏏🏏 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGames #cricketpitch #ClassicMono #sport #PhotoOfTheDay #Cheshire #BnW

Reminder: If you are applying for a 2026 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, the deadline to submit your application is this Thursday 19 February, 4pm. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

The Glynne Arms, 2026 Hello Sunday! Here's a photograph of the Glynne Arms, #Hawarden, North Wales, seen through the castle gates. Hawarden is the home of the Gladstone Museum and is an interesting place to visit. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #Stunday #pubs #NorthWales #LandscapePhotography

CAS members: Remember to register for our next lecture (online) about Nesscliffe hillfort on 18 February. We have just sent out another email with the link (if you can't see it, check your spam folder). Non-members are very welcome and can book here [£5]: www.ticketsource.co.uk/chester-arch...

Common Frog #framed by pond weed for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed Photographed in a south #Cheshire, England garden pond in the 1980s on #Kodachrome #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #nature #naturephotography #PhotographersOfBluesky

Male Chaffinch in a south #Cheshire orchard for #FinchFriday. Photographed in the 1980s on #Kodachrome. #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #OlympusOM2N

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Portrait. Portrait of a Great Tit photographed in south #Cheshire, England. A #Kodachrome from the 1980s. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #OlympusOM2N

Common Frog #framed by pond weed for #ColourADay #GreenSat and the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed Photographed in south #Cheshire, England in the 1980s on #Kodachrome #EastCoastKin #photography #nature #naturephotography #OlympusOM2N

Picturehouse Wall Art, 2026 Hello Saturday ❤️Here's a photograph from our recent visit to the cinema in #Chester. Love these framed stills from Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" on a wall! Colour coordination on a grand scale! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #cinemas #films #colourful

Lovely winter’s morning for a stroll around Grosvenor Park, Chester.

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp New records at @findmypast.bsky.social this week 🚩𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 262,466 new records from 19th/20th centuries 🚩𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 4,986 additions covering 1883-1926 Link to blog with full details 👉 www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/man...

❤️Love tokens? Two heart shaped lithics. First, polished pink granite, flat on reverse. Second a naturally occurring heart shaped piece of flint-collected for it's symbolic meaning? Age uncertain, Neolithic onwards. #Archaeology #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Love #Wirral

“The farmer is sowing his corn in the large field that has been ploughed and harrowed” ‘What to Look for in Winter’, 1959 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

The Rows, Chester Hello Thursday Bluesky! A photograph here of shoppers on part of the medieval Rows in #Chester. This covered space is delightful to walk in, this was Winter 2021. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #Cheshire #ClassicMono #PhotoOfTheDay #urbanphotography #localhistory

Stained Glass Snowdrops Hello Wednesday! Here's a section of a stained glass window at St Andrew's Church, #Tarvin featuring some delightful #snowdrops! The section is framed by lead and a metal window bar. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #WindowsOnWednesday #stainedglass #churches

Bookstall outside Ye Olde Rovers Return pub, Manchester, January 1954. The 14th century building was demolished in 1958 (Getty/Manchester Evening News).

Looking forward to talking about #Heiresses with Nasra Elliott of the International Slavery Museum at The Athenaeum in #Liverpool on Thursday 4th March, 5pm. Thanks for the invite @csis-liverpool.bsky.social Book your FREE ticket now.. www.ticketsource.co.uk/csis/csis-pr...

#OTD in 1944, aero-engine factory, Limoges, France. 617 Squadron commander Cheshire made three low-level passes, warning civilians, before bombing commenced. #WW2 #HISTORY

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Berries. A Redwing eating a Holly berry in a garden in south #Cheshire, England. Photographed in the 1980s on #Kodachrome and published in a field guide to garden wildlife of Europe. #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

#Scape #Landscape here's one of the #Lakes at Tatton park, Cheshire. #nature #mindfulness #Tranquility

Snow covered farmland in south #Cheshire, England at sunrise. A #ThrowbackThursday post from the 1980s on #Kodachrome. #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #landscape #clouds #sunrise

A Grey Squirrel eating an acorn on a garden lawn in south #Cheshire, England for #SquirrelSaturday. A #Kodachrome from the 1990s. #EastCoastKin #photography #nature #naturephotography

A Eurasian Tree Sparrow feeding in an orchard in south #Cheshire, England for #SparrowSunday. A #Kodachrome from the 1980s. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

The Lovell Telescope #JodrellBank #Cheshire

“Heavy rains that often fall in February have flooded the low-lying meadows in the broad valley.” ‘What to Look for in Winter’, 1959 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

Site highlight: Dane-In-Shaw Pasture SSSI. The pasture is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) due to it being a grassland of national importance. Walk through the Pasture in the Spring and Summer and it is easy to see why this site is so special - https://bit.ly/2p8Ckjo

The next episode of #DiggingForBritain is tonight and features Antiquity authors Benjamin W. Roberts & R. Alan Williams on their excavations of the Bronze Age tin trade at St. Michael's Mount! Can't wait? They wrote on their findings in an #AntiquityBlog 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Wintry Walk, 2026 A gentle walk through a woodland (ex-railway line) with its winter coat on, dark green ivy, grey patterned bark and tangled branches. #ClassicMono #PhotoOfTheDay #woodlands #trees #walkers #landscapephotography #Cheshire #Whitegate

Today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongNecks. A Grey Heron at the edge of a reed bed in south Cheshire, England. A #Kodachrome from the 1990s. #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife

The wonder that is Rochdale Town Hall #TownHalls #Rochdale High Victorian design. Gothic Revival. Restoration began 2020. Reopened 2024. architect William H Crossland #Architecture New clock tower by Alfred Waterhouse after disastrous fire in April 1883

The Trust's Major Research Fellowships scheme enables experienced researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. For more details and to apply, visit: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/major-resear... Deadline: 8 May 2026

That time down Salford.

The old #StHelens Borough crest in ceramic tiles, with the classic motto: #ExTerraLucem. It is on the lodge at the St. Mark's Gate entrance to Victoria Park. The building was derelict for a long time. Now restored, it is now the brew HQ for a local #ParkRun, among things. #TilesOnTuesday #Lancashire

Crewe Railway Engine Postcard Following a railway theme, here is a photo on a #postcard of an "Old Crewe Passenger Engine, built 1846" published in 1904 by the L &N W R. A marvellous #photograph reflecting the skill of engine makers in #Crewe at the time. #LocalHistory #Trains #Railways #Postcards

“The cat on the path is looking at the blue-tits, as cats do at birds they cannot reach” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL GrantWatson

This is an entry for licences for premises with explosive material, covering the Alfreton & District area between 1893 and 1897. An unusual entry features a hairdresser on Alfreton High Street. Not sure what they were using and why, but thank goodness it's not used now. At least we hope it isn't!

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Cat among ferns’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

The #industriesof the #Northwestof #Englandwere built upon the #millssituated in #NewMills#high#peak#Derbyshireshot in #blackandwhite.#architecturephotography#peakdistrict.Shot by a #local#photographerat www.darrensmith.org.uk. See more #imagesand #photoshere.

Jodrell Bank Observatory Hello Tuesday! A dramatic sight at any time, here is the observatory radio telescope in Cheshire. The staff are involved in great educational work and it also hosts exhibitions & events. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic #Cheshire #telescopes #PhotoOfTheDay #ClassicMono

CAS members - you can now read and download the latest issue of our journal - volume 95 - in the Members' Area of our website.

Macclesfield Forest in Autumn Enjoyed a walk in the forest and was fortunate to see this Autumn scene. Hoping to be walking there again, soon 🤞 #Stunday #Photography #Cheshire #Macclesfield #nature #woodlands #PhotoOfTheDay

This special roof tile, also on display at the Grosvenor museum in Chester, bears the marks of the 20th Legion and their symbol, a wild boar.

Brilliant documentary that explores the role that mosses have played in the Earth's evolution - the magical world of moss

'Pompeii – Ephesus – Hawkedon: Gladiators at the British Museum and Beyond' - An online talk tonight, 22 Jan, by Dr Anna Willi of the British Museum, to finish the Gladiators of Britain exhibition at the Grosvenor Museum. See events.westcheshiremuseums.co.uk/event/pompei... for more info and booking

Artist CF Tunnicliffe first came to prominence with his wood engraving illustrations for Henry Williamson’s book Tarka the Otter, 1933

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Goldfinch’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe