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The BCDM is a virtual museum enjoying history, art and the natural world in the Midlands . All photos by the BCDM. thebcdyingmuseum.blog

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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Early 1920s font by Gabriel Pippet at Sacred Heart & St Catherine of Alexandria Droitwich. #fontsonfriday #stoneworksunday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
St Anne's church Burntwood. #adoorablethursday #dailydoor
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#thicktrunktuesday St Nicholas churchyard Warndon.
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In em’rald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white, Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood’s bending knee. Fairies use flowers for their charactery.. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Glass by Florence Camm. 1/2 #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
St Thomas & St Luke, Dudley. 19th century font. #fontsonfriday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Holy Trinity Trimpley, 1844 by Harvey Eginton #adoorablethursday #dailydoor #ironworkthursdsay
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
St Margaret's church Great Barr. Choir stalls by Advent Hunstone (1858–1927). #woodensday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Here’s flowers for you: Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram, The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ th’ sun And with him rises weeping. These are flowers Of middle summer.. The Winter's Tale. #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday 1/2
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
St Margaret's church Great Barr. 17th century tower with 18th century spire. #steeplesaturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
St James the Great, Colwall. #sundayceilings
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The greatest grace lending grace, Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring.. All's Well That Ends Well. Stained glass by Henry Payne 1908 at the church of the Good Shepherd Hook Common. #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Carved wooden lion at St Mary Magdalene church at Hadnall. #caturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
St Chads church in Pattingham. 14th century tower with spire added in 1871 by George Gilbert Scot. In memory of the 4th Earl of Dartmouth, William Legge. #steeplesaturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
St Martin, Barcheston. 14th century font. #fontsonfriday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
#thursgate #lovegates #ironworkthursday Worcester.
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
St Mary Warwick. #adoorablethursday #dailydoor
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
All Saints Alrewas. 16th century roof boss. #woodensday #greenman
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned, Sung by a fair queen in a summer’s bower, With ravishing division, to her lute. Henry IV, Part 1 - Act 3, scene 1 #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday 1/2
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
St Mary, Warwick. #flowersonfriday #sundaystonework
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
St Mary Magdalene Croome. #adoorablethursday #dailydoor
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
St George's church Kidderminster. #thursgate #lovegates #ironworkthursday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
St Nicholas church, Inkberrow. #windowsonwednesday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ladies, you deserve To have a temple built you.. Church of St James, Birmingham Coriolanus - Act 5, scene 3 Glass by the Camm Studio Smethwick. #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
14th century wooden screen at St Andrew's church, Clifton Campville. #screensaturday #woodensday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
St Michael and all Angels, Martin Hussingtree. #steeplesaturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#thicktrunktuesday Little Hereford
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
St Margaret of Antioch Hasbury. Glass by Albert Lemmon 1935. #stainedglass #stmargaret #feastday #saintsday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
All hope is gone Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer.. Measure for Measure - Act 1, scene 4 St Barnabas church, Franche. #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
14th century misericord at Clifton Campville. #woodensday #woodcarving
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For Black Country Day, Joseph Backler painted glass 1821 at St Thomas &, St Luke Dudley. #blackcountryday #stainedglass
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
St Andrew's church, Temple Grafton. Frederick Preedy 1875. #steeplesaturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
When, like the bee, tolling from every flower The virtuous sweets, Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, We bring it to the hive and, like the bees, Are murdered for our pains. Henry IV Hardman glass at St Ambrose Kidderminster. #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
All Saints Church in Kings Heath. Frederick Preedy 1860s. #steeplesaturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
All Saints church Kings Heath #steeplesaturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
St Ambrose Kidderminster. 19th century font and carved wooden cover. #fontsonfriday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
St Michael and all Angels Chirbury. #adoorablethursday #dailydoor
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#thicktrunktuesday Great Malvern Priory.
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Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Today's #ShakespeareSunday is theme free!
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Cat Licking Ice Sphere
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.. Henry VIII - Act 4, scene 1 Stained glass of Dorothy Wyndlow Pattinson (Sister Dora) at St Paul's church in Walsall by Arthur Joseph Dix 1903. #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
St Lawrence church in Darlaston 1871-2 by Archibald Brevitt. #steeplesaturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
St Bartholomew Penn. Carved wooden screen by Charles Ponting 1915. #screensaturday #woodensday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Victorian font at St Nicholas church, Kemerton. #fontsonfriday #flowersonfriday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
1930s Lych gate at St Mary Magdalene church, Himbleton. #thursgate #lovegates
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
15th century fire breathing dragons at St Faith's church Overbury. #woodensday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
St James Oddingley, 17th century tower. #towertuesday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#thicktrunktuesday
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Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: FATHERS
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Disney's Mufasa and Simba in The Lion King
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
’Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels.. Cymbeline - Act 5, scene 3 Glass by Edward Burne Jones 1860s at All Saints Selsey. #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
St George's church Kidderminster. By Francis Goodwin 1820s. #steeplesaturday
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The Black Country Dying Museum @bcdyingmuseum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
St Margaret's church Great Barr. #fontsonfriday
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