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Lady Susan @susanchilds.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Extraordinary door!
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧵This is a great story. Polish codebreaker Fred Vanke, now 103 who carried out work on behalf of codebreakers at Bletchley Park. After Fred's story was revealed research has added the👇 BBC News - Codebreaker, 103, kept his WW2 heroics a secret for decades - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Codebreaker, 103, kept his WW2 heroics a secret for decades
Fred Vanke was sworn to secrecy but has now been honoured by Bletchley Park.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A new statue of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled in Glasgow. Designed by Alan B Herriot it will stand in the city's Nelson Mandela Place. 👇 BBC News - New statue unveiled as Glasgow celebrates links to Nelson Mandela www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New statue unveiled as Glasgow celebrates links to Nelson Mandela
The statue from sculptor Alan B Herriot will stand in the city's Nelson Mandela Place, having been chosen from a shortlist last year.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🧵The College of the Vicars Choral of York had their own chapel which dates from 1349. The original building of magnesian limestone ashlar rubble with the west gable wall rebuilt in red brick in random bond with limestone quoins & pantile roof. It was extended in 1400, refurbished three times in
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Lady Susan @susanchilds.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Despicable!
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Searches to resume for the body of missing US airman, Cpl Clarence Watson who was one of 9 killed on the 9th October 1944 when their B24H bomber crashed at Twizle Head Moor, near Holmfirth, W. Yorks. His was the only body not recovered. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The search on moors above Holmfirth for missing WW2 airman
Archaeologists have been contracted by US government to look for remains of crewman killed in 1944.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A project announced by Historic England to reveal the history & heritage of the Yorkshire Wolds through mapping the landscape. 👇 BBC News - Yorkshire Wolds project aiming to uncover 'unrecognised heritage' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yorkshire Wolds project aiming to uncover 'unrecognised heritage'
Historic England, York Archaeology and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust announce a Yorkshire Wolds scheme.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An annual celebration of culture, language & history; the 194th Royal National Mod starts in Glasgow today. 👇 BBC News - 'Record-breaking' Mòd returns to Glasgow for Gaelic celebration www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Record-breaking' Mòd returns to Glasgow for Gaelic celebration
Thousands of people will gather this week in Glasgow for the annual celebration of Gaelic culture
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧵Hidden away down a side alley off Goodramgate, York is the wonder of Bedern Hall. The Common Hall of the Vicars Choral of York Minster which dates from the mid 14th century. Materials used are timber framed with coursed limestone incorporating re-used moulded stone on chamfered plinth, restored
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congratulations to Daryl Powell & Wakefield Trinity on winning the Grand Final. The biggest day for Wakefield since 1968. This is an absolutely MASSIVE boost for the city that is so needed. 🏉
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 03/10/2026
🧷 “Unzipped Building” — By Alex Chinneck in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹 Imagination Took Over (8 Photos) streetartutopia.com/2026/10/03/imag…
Alex Chinneck’s orange building facade in Milan peels back at one corner with a giant zipper.
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Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The story of the SS Richard Montgomery which sank in the Thames Estuary en route from the USA to Cherbourg, France in 1944 with 7,000 tonnes of munitions onboard. 👇 BBC News - What is the SS Richard Montgomery that sank in the Thames Estuary? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What is the SS Richard Montgomery that sank in the Thames Estuary?
People are again talking about the doomed WW2 ship that still contains 1,400 tonnes of explosives.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is the traditional Bonfire Night burning itself out? Red tape, increasing costs & legislation to prevent terrorist attacks are having an impact on organisers of public events. 👇 BBC News - Is bonfire night on the brink of burning itself out? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Is bonfire night on the brink of burning itself out?
Organisers say they still want to put on the events even though it gets harder to stage them.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Blackpool's, Grade 2 listed Stanley Park celebrates its centenary. 👇 BBC News - Celebrations mark centenary of Blackpool's famous Stanley Park - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Celebrations mark centenary of Blackpool's famous Stanley Park
Your guide to the family-friendly events marking the 100th anniversary of Blackpool's Stanley Park.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A few more photos of Glasgow Cathedral taken from inside the Necropolis which is behind it.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Carrying on from yesterday's posts. During the Victorian era, Leeds became an important centre for the "fashion of mourning," shaped by strict social conventions surrounding bereavement. The demand for appropriate mourning dress encouraged the growth of specialist mourning warehouses
Briggate in Leeds, featuring Frederic Forster's Mourning Warehouse (founded in 1849) alongside the Viaduct Vaults, captured around 1870–1890. Image@ Leeds Museums and Galleries.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🧵5 British soldiers killed in the aftermath of the D-Day landings in WW2 identified through DNA have been honoured. L/Cpl Reginald Dewey, 26 from Bourne, Lincs. BBC News - Five British soldiers killed in WW2 identified and honoured in Normandy - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Five British soldiers killed in WW2 identified and honoured in Normandy
The men had been buried as unknown soldiers in Normandy, France.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🧵The site of Glasgow Cathedral dates back to AD550 when St. Mungo, also known as St. Kentigern founded a religious community around a small church. It was early in the 1200's that some of what is seen today appeared. This included the walls of the nave up to the bottom of the windows.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The world's last sea going paddle steamer, Waverley has marked 80 years since it was launched on the River Kelvin, Glasgow & will sail on the Thames until 11th October. 👇 BBC News - Waverley paddle steamer marks 80th anniversary since launch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Waverley paddle steamer marks 80th anniversary since launch
The Waverley passed through London's Tower Bridge as part of the anniversary voyage on the Thames.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧵The George Hotel, Land of Green Ginger, Hull which has supposedly the smallest window in England at 10 x 1 inches. In the Victorian era when it was a coaching inn it was said to have been used by the building's porters to keep a look out for stagecoaches & customers, so they could be seen by
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧵The Land of Green Ginger, Hull, a street of residential & commercial buildings, formerly known as Old Beverley Street near Whitefriargate. Its naming is a bit of a mystery. It may refer to the storage & selling of spice ginger in the Middle Ages. The name change is thought to have occurred between
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧵Little Venice, between Paddington & Maida Vale, London at the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent''s Canal & the entrance to the Paddington Basin. The canal arrived at Paddington in 1801. Lord Byron first compared the area to that of Venice, but it was not until
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🧵NEW BLOG Edmund Murray 20 St. John's Square Here is the eighth & latest blog from the St John's Square, Wakefield #OnePlaceStudy which is about the life of corn merchant, Edmund Murray who lived at 20 St. John's Square in the late 1880's & early 1890's. www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk/post/one-pla...
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
16th century, Paraphrases of Erasmus book, worth £5,000 stolen from St. Mary's Church, Chediston, near Halesworth, Suffolk. 👇 BBC News - Rare 16th Century Paraphrases of Erasmus book stolen from church - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rare 16th Century Paraphrases of Erasmus book stolen from church
A reverend says he hopes the "sacred" object will be returned to the rural church.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
REMINDER The third episode of A House Though Time is on BBC2 tonight at 9pm with David Olusoga moving into the start of the 20th century with more research & stories from the past residents of the house at Calton Hill, Edinburgh.🏘️
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Great Chamber at St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter. A broad stone staircase leads up to the room in which the medieval Priory's guests would have been fed. After the Reformation this probably served as a great chamber. The upper end of the hall, where there may have been a /1
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Archaeologists uncover the walls of medieval village, 3 Roman coins & a neolithic grinding tool at West Stonehouse during a week long community dig at Mount Edgecumbe, Cornwall. 👇 BBC News - Dig reveals walls of hidden medieval village www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cornwall dig reveals medieval village wall beneath the ground
Volunteers helped undercover a medieval village wall as a Victorian bottle is returned to the site.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The mystery of what happened to Mary Money, whose dead body was found in the Merstham Tunnel, Surrey in 1905. 👇 BBC News - The Merstham tunnel mystery, unresolved over 120 years later - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Merstham tunnel mystery, unresolved over 120 years later
No suspect was ever charged in connection with Mary Money's death on 24 September 1905.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
bomb damage in WW2. The concourse was enlarged in 1968-69 & again in the 1970's. From the outside the station is largely obscured by the Great Western Royal Hotel, now the Hilton London Paddington. The station was Grade 1 listed in 1961.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
mile east of an earlier station from 1838. The station has four spans of roof. Three from 1852-54 by contactors, Fox, Henderson & Co. With the fourth & largest added by GWR in 1914-16. The cast iron columns supporting Brunel's roof were replaced with the current steel ones in 1922-24. There was
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🧵The magnificent London Paddington railway terminus. Built 1851-54 with design by engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel; architect, Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt; contractor, Charles Fox & assistance with decoration by Owen Jones, for the Great Western Railway (GWR). This station was built a quarter of a
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Letter from 1955 written by a tradesman found in the walls of a house during a renovation at Welton, East Yorkshire. 👇 BBC News - Letter from 71 years ago found during house renovation in Welton - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Letter from 71 years ago found during house renovation in Welton
Brendon Swallow, from Welton, finds the letter wrapped up in a newspaper behind an old bookshelf.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hastings the dragon has arrived at Lincoln Castle, joining fellow dragons Lucy & Norman. 👇 BBC News - Hastings the dragon has its first visitors at Lincoln Castle - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hastings the dragon has its first visitors at Lincoln Castle
Hastings lands at the castle and draws the crowds as he joins fellow dragons Lucy and Norman.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is so funny.😹 youtu.be/Jr6CyU-Ev_M?...
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Kitten Kong
YouTube video by Fairbank Otter
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Lady Susan @susanchilds.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hello Blue Sky!
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