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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@curatorian.bsky.social Ian I'm trying to look for photos in the IWM catalogue between a certain date range. Am I being slow or are the filters 'limited'?

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

@uk-tank-markings.co.uk Graham I don't suppose you have any Orbat charts for home forces tank units in 1940? I'm geolocating units in SE England and let's just say the War Diaries I have are'thin' on info

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A slightly late post to say I attended @1940andy.bsky.social's fascinating talk on SS Barn Hill last week. And in my usual fashion of going off at tangents, I'm trying to resist the urge to start researching wartime convoys @nickhewitt4.bsky.social

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a cartoon dog is talking to a man in glasses .

ALT: a cartoon dog is talking to a man in glasses .

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My 'office' for the next hour of so shooting the Arundel 10k

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

#HillfortsWednesday. Snip of a 1837 Manor map showing Wolsonbury Hill north of Brighton, Sussex. Apparently it had a Roman Encampment? 🤔@durotrigesdig.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social @mattpope.bsky.social

Snip of a water coloured map showing part of the Manor of Pangdean on the Sussex Downs north of Brighton.

Held at the National Archives ref MPII 1/77/2

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

@vickersmg.bsky.social Folks, slightly random question for you. I have some civilian building plans that show an indoor (rifle) range that may have been about 40 yards long. Building seems to be cira 1910 so any ideas on what sort of weapons might have been used?

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

@uk-tank-markings.co.uk dunno why this has popped into my head but how easy would it be to do monochrome versions of your markings? Wondering if this would help with comparing and IDing period photographs 🤔

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

@catsofyore.bsky.social Victorian image of coachmen with cats (and a dog)

Snip of a Facebook post from Brighton & Hove Museums (Sussex) showing 7 men in Victorian dress and stove pipe hats. 2 are holding cats and a dog stands between 2 men.

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

@crusaderproject.bsky.social Just had an email about this new book. Don't know if of interest or is it too late? www.naval-military-press.com/product/driv...

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

@vchlondon.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @adamchapman.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk Just pondering what maps & surveys mid 19th C Railway Engineers would have had access to before setting prospective railway routes?

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 14/05/2025

Following the discussion on #F1 yesterday I went down a rabbit hole on engine configurations. Yes, the much-loved shrieking V12 only won a single championship season (1991), but what were the most (and least successful) configurations? Read on... fyi @jontyscorner.bsky.social (pic Jmex60)

Ayrton Senna in the McLaren MP4/6 at Monaco in 1991

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Stolen from FB. An excellent display for #VEDay though the Indian flag is noticably absent.

Screen grab of a picture showing various country flags arranged in front of green trees and bushes. The flags represent the various Allied Nations who faught in Europe.

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#SWW #NationalFarmSurvey Q please @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @adamchapman.bsky.social Just realised that the 6" maps used to show plots, *don't* have the (OS) field parcel N#s that /were/ printed on the 25" sheets. It seems the assessors transcribed parcel numbers onto the smaller maps?

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

@altnps.bsky.social British post rock instrumental duo Nordic Giants have a beautiful song called Spirit which samples a MLK speech from 1967. Thought you might like it youtu.be/AN3hArXzpQE?...

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Nordic Giants - Spirit

YouTube video by Nordic Giants

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

More international (🇻🇳) pillbox* spotting just for @ckolonko.bsky.social 😄 A 🧵 1st up, two blockhouses* NE of the old quarter of Hoi An maps.app.goo.gl/QhojyFkwqy5U... * = Info boards call them blockhouses, don't FISH me 1/

Info board describing the structure and a battle that took place in 1967

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Yes, I did borrow a bicycle for a bit of pillbox spotting, why do you ask? @ckolonko.bsky.social @rivetsandpins.bsky.social @newforestramble.bsky.social

A concrete bunker connected to thick brick walls overlooking a river bridge

A concrete bunker sitting on top of a brick wall. Below it a road crosses over a canal

A concrete bunker sunk low into a river bank. Scooters are passing it on the road in front and behind a bridge crosses a canal

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Not a lot of historic buildings in this scene but this might be the furthest east your book has travelled?

A book balanced on a wooden rail of a ship. In the background are limestone karsts in the Vietnamese bay of Ha Long

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social a quick pub licensing Q off the back of last night's talk please. I know beershops were set up along railway routes in the mid 19th C. Would these have been licensed and if so, what sort of archive records would I need to look for; quarter or petty sessions?

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social name checking @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social this evening in Horsham, W Sussex

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

#MilHist folks and Gallipoli tour guides Can anyone put me in touch with anyone visiting this year? I'm after some photos of some memorials that include men in my @oneplacestudies.bsky.social TVM @ww2tv.bsky.social

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Just watched the #TronAres trailer and it looks ace. (I'm old enough to have seen the original film in the cinema)

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Didn't know Bradshaw's (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradsha...) had Second World War editions 😉

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social a potentially loaded question please. Earliest map I have of my area is 1638 and a handful of houses are shown on it, for instance maps.app.goo.gl/skkQiyanGBFo... and maps.app.goo.gl/q1PWSSMTHRbT...

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

43 and 44 Royal Tank Regiments in Sussex 1940 - 1941 🧵 on these 2 Rgts. Having photo'd their war diaries, I was finally able to ID various photos in the IWM collection. @curatorian.bsky.social @rivetsandpins.bsky.social @tanktales.bsky.social @uk-tank-markings.co.uk @ckolonko.bsky.social 1/

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This afternoon I have mostly fallen into the #Mappron rabbithole of the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy historic maps under the MPHH series - discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C... And the Railway Executive Committee files in AN2 - discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

@oneplacestudies.bsky.social Has anyone done any detailed work on the Second World War National Farm Survey as explained here - www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...? I have some inconsistancies between some returns and maps I've photographed TIA

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

@adamchapman.bsky.social Another MAF wartime survey Q please. I shot various local MAF 32 returns a while ago and did some MAF 73/41 maps last week. I'm trying to find the location of a neighbour's piggery plot on the maps but aren't having much luck.

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@merrynwalters.uk @oneplacestudies.bsky.social Will you look at the terrain shading on that! 😍#Mapprn

Snip of a colour map held at the National Archives. It dates from 1794 and has fantastic details such individual houses, different coloured fields and hatched under shading to highlight differences in terrain

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

After a couple of weeks off its time to get back out on the road. Market Harborough tomorrow, Beeston & Glasgow next week. Also worth noting that tickets are getting scarce for Horsham & Norton St Philip. The last of the Mythbusting shows... triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mythbustingt...

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

So there's a challenge on #Strava to log 200 minutes of activity between 6th and 26th March. So with today being the 8th ie 48 hours / 2880 minutes in, how have three people managed to log from 601 to 7159 hours in that time? 🤷‍♂️

Screengrab of a Strava exercise challenge leader board. The challenge is to complete 200 minutes of activity between 6th and 26th March but the leader has somehow managed to log 7159 hours in just two days

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It's Friday so doom scroll what's going on in the world 😟 or see what SM mischief @romanpalace.bsky.social can get upto (with @durotrigesdig.bsky.social)? 😁

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

@lukebmtb.bsky.social Am I right in saying your house isn't in this scene?

A snip of a Facebook post. It contains a copy of a waterclour painting showing a collection of light coloured houses by a road. Behind them are green trees and a castle tower behind looms over the whole scene

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

@rivetsandpins.bsky.social @robertglennie.bsky.social @ckolonko.bsky.social @crusaderproject.bsky.social @tanktales.bsky.social Just spotted this Nov 41 WD re the poss deployment of 3.7" AA guns for A/T duties in the UK. Haven't spotted any refs to what the '90 ton tank' was, presumably Tigers?

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

@curatorian.bsky.social Having a convo on FB re this image - hangar7.pixels.com/featured/tip..., which is apparantely a repro of a real image and the IWM have it / have the 'original' image. Are you able to confirm please?

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Tipping Point - Titled by Mark Donoghue

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just realised @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social are on here so here's a thread on my slightly unusual request to them. Back in 2023 I got a bit obsessed with researching the construction of a large local Victorian railway viaduct. 1/

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

MS Word formatting taken to new artistic heights

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Not going to pretend to understand what's going on over in the States but it seems there's been a pause with imposing tariffs? I gather global markets dropped yesterday and call me a cynic but if these tariffs quietly disappear, how many people benefitted from the market changes?

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

@navalairhistory.com Just remembered, Airworks were based at (RAF) Gatwick for many years and refurbished a number of aircraft post war. This apparently included over 100 Seat and Spitfires. Am I right that there's a number of Seafires in this image? britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...

Snip of a black and white photo showing a number of single engine fighter planes parked in rows.

The wider image is of Gatwick Airport in 1953 and the aircraft appear to be a mix of Sea and Spitfires awaiting refurbishment by Airworks Ltd

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

@rivetsandpins.bsky.social @robertglennie.bsky.social @tanktales.bsky.social @uk-tank-markings.co.uk This image was taken in the grounds of the Royal Pavillion, Brighton but I'm trying to identify when and what units. I think I see a Valentine in the background (@crusaderproject.bsky.social)

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Mike Anton @m1ke-a.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Semi Random Sunday thought please @romanpalace.bsky.social Any ideas why there was a (Roman) settlement, palace and road to Chi / Fishbourne? Was it essentially what I presume was a decent harbourage? @durotrigesdig.bsky.social rigesdig.bsky.social @sussexpast.bsky.social

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience

Feathers McGraw (a penguin with a rubber glove for a hat, or a chicken depending on who you ask) stands outside the entrance of The Museum of English Rural Life.

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