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Andrew Howson

@howson.bsky.social
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Engineer, Family history researcher, British home children of Canada researcher, an eclectic taste. Happiest strolling the moors.

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A song we adapted from "Iris" (Goo Goo Dolls) about seeing and acknowledging what's happening now, in Gaza. youtu.be/7OGcRQtorAM
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"Gaza" - adaptation by the Marsh Family of "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls, on the occupation of Gaza
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Brexit hasn't been betrayed. The British people have not been betrayed. The betrayal was Brexit. Once that is the established narrative, we can all go forward together.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
You thought there was big news about the Pope's familly tree *last* week? Pull up a chair. en.geneanet.org/genealogyblo...
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Pope Leo’s European Grandparents: The Mystery Solved
Starting last week, when white smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican indicated a new Pope had been chosen,...
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Reform is a Limited Company Farage owns 53% It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit” It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget It wants to privatise the NHS & invest in fossil fuels Close the BBC & break International law It’s a scam Please retweet widely
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Fact-checked live. The toxic wotsit ain't gonna like that.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
#M62 J24-25 #Snow.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#Elland #Flooding. Park road Elland flooding.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Went to the Austrian military museum today. The Heeresgeschichtliches Museum. Great museum. The car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot and killed on the Latin bridge in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 thus starting WWI
The car Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding in when he a d his wife were killed in Sarajevo in 1914.  Causing the outbreak of WWIThe car Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding in when he a d his wife were killed in Sarajevo in 1914.  Causing the outbreak of WWIArchduke Franz Ferdinand uniform which he was wearing when shot and died in Sarajevo in 1914.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Just had my breakfast with Franz Joseph 1st looking over my shoulder.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This building is making a huge statement.
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Heather @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This is absolutely insane. There are people STILL ALIVE TODAY who were disabled by polio! What is happening?
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 09/12/2024
“Oh no you fucking don’t. Seriously, you tosspot, you’re not one of us and we wouldn’t want you even if you were. Step one foot on our lovely spectrum and we’ll yeet you directly into the sun.” thedailytism.com/autistics-to...
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Autistics to Boris Johnson: don’t even fucking think about it
Autistic people have issued a statement explaining to Boris Johnson that autism does not cause you to become a compulsively lying, law-breaking, nation-wrecking cunt. The statement encourages Johnson ...
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Out for lunch.#properfood #Fishandchips
Large fish and chips almost hanging over the plate.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Flood sirens going off in #Todmorden and #Walsden. Stay safe everyone. #Calderdale. #Flooding
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Lots of bots and scantily clad ladies again. Block button in force.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"Brexit has ruined this country, and now the majority of Britons thinks so too." RP if you are that majority.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What a week……
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I don't care if this is a remote chance. It is too serious to allow any possibility of it happening.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Is there such a thing as. #postboxSaturday on here? A lovely box in Halifax. A day late though. Crocheted nativity scene on top of the postbox.
Crocheted nativity scene on top of the postboxCrocheted nativity scene on top of the postbox
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
UPDATE: Gregg Wallace looks like a dog sexually harassing a trifle through a fence.
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The sod is trending so here follows my biannual Gregg Wallace Tweet® - Gregg Wallace looks like a dog barking at a trifle through a fence.
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Jon Dollery @jrdollery.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Royal Commission has funded the National Library of Wales to scan all of it's 1st Edition 25" OS mapping. The plan in the new year is to begin georeferencing them & make them freely available. We have made a start with Anglesey which you can view here: rcahmw.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Amazing. The best thing to come out of this thread.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#HebdenBridge is beginning to flood again. Flood sirens going off all down the upper Calder valley. #Flooding. #Calderedale. #Todmorden.
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Claire @azuredoo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#StormBert flood siren weather warnings sounding across Todmorden in the Calder Valley
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
#RemembranceSunday Walked up to the Pots and Pans war memorial above #Greenfield In #Saddleworth today. Very foggy. Good turnout.
Very foggy view Remembrance Day. 
Pots and pans war memorial above Greenfield in Saddleworth. Very foggy view Remembrance Day. 
Pots and pans war memorial above Greenfield in Saddleworth. Very foggy view Remembrance Day. 
Pots and pans war memorial above Greenfield in Saddleworth. Very foggy view Remembrance Day. 
Pots and pans war memorial above Greenfield in Saddleworth.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
#Remembrance poppies growing in a field of freshly cut sweetcorn near Meltham in #Huddersfield last weekend.
Harvested field where poppies are growing in November in Meltham Huddersfield. Poppies. Poppie. Poppie.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
@samsonovphotoart.bsky.social you took some finding. Phew.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Girl with Bicycle, Dublin in 1966, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love everything about this photo.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
21 years ago today it poured down all day. Went to Chester le Street and the Riverside stadium to watch England India. It was a washout. 🤷‍♂️
Ticket England India one day match Riverside Chester LE Street. 2002 Was a total washout.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
Has this site fallen over as well. Can’t follow people now. 🤷‍♂️
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
The most easterly point in Lancashire. I might add it’s a tad blustery up here. #Hiking #Yorkshire
Stone post depicting the most easterly point of Lancashire. Side of the stone post. A Lancashire Rose carved into it. Liking along the #PennineWsy past the post.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/06/2023
Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate chief executive who was piloting the submersible, is a descendant of two first-class passengers who died on the Titanic, records show
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Submersible Pilot’s Spouse Is Descended From a Famous Titanic Couple
Wendy Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people to die aboard the ocean liner.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 25/06/2023
Sweltering day. Gentle stroll down to the canal and back up to home.
Brearley’s bridge Bradley, Huddersfield Calder and Hebble navigation Brighouse. Lower Woodhouse near Bradley woods Brighouse.
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Andrew Howson @howson.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
Hello. First post on this exciting new platform.
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