May is #LocalHistory AndCommunityMonth
The aim of the month is to increase awareness of local history and to engage the local community in history and heritage in general.
#Halewood #LocalHistory #Heritage
For Local and Community History Month we have this lovely Bristol jigsaw for you to puzzle over. Take some time out at Central Library and help us piece it together!
#BristolLibraries #LocalHistory #LocalHistory Month
That time of year…exploring the cemetery near school to research local Civil War veterans. #eduprotocols #sschat #sstlap #localhistory
The Twickenham Museum is delighted to be reopening its doors to the public once again this Friday between 11am and 3pm. Come and let us know what you think of the re-presentation of the 1st floor. We think it’s great! And we are FREE to visit! #Museum #LocalHistory Richmond Council
The last two weeks I have been trekking the farmlands and fields around #Nantwich and #Willaston looking for the locations of #WW2 bomb sites look out for another incredible story “coming soon” #Genealogy #History #LocalHistory
Help please.
Anyone know which prison was used for those sentenced from the Dewsbury Batley area in 1918? Wakefield prison (the one ordinarily used) was closed to civilian prisoners in the WW1 period (West Yorkshire Archive Service records)
#Wakefield #LocalHistory #OnePlaceWednesday
It's #LocalandCommunityHistoryMonth learn more about the history of #Wirral through some of the artefacts left behind ➡️ prehistoricwirral.com/the-collection… #localhistory #history Wirral Council Wirral Libraries
This #PhotoFriday : Harts Cottages at Boughton Quarries, Boughton Monchelsea, 1909. An idyllic image of rural England with picturesque cottages and their well-kept vegetable gardens. (Old Maidstone Collection, OM030) #Photographs #LocalHistory #Maidstone #Maidstone Museum
Happy #PhotoFriday : Tovil Court, Maidstone, c. 1900. Photo by Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt Drake who was the founder of Maidstone’s Carriage Museum and twelve times mayor of Maidstone. (Old Maidstone Collection, OM023). #Photographs #LocalHistory #Maidstone #Maidstone Museum
Sending love to the Bayside History Museum of North Beach, MD under Ms G Brady. Thanks to the transcription efforts of museum member Ms C Couchman, my Waterloo Association audience enjoyed the tale of Colonial Marine Charles, who rescued his daughter from Elizabeth Ballard. #localhistory
Playing out on Turner Street, Balsall Heath, 1968. tinyurl.com/y5dxw7jv #Birmingham #Brum #BalsallHeath #LocalHistory
Great weekend celebrating Broom Day (where Bromley gets its name)with
BromleyCivicSociety society.Sprigs of broom to take, local history exhibit, kids activities & walks-all free! Great to see Glades buzzing due to Bromley FC qualifying too! ☀️💐 #localhistory #lovewhereyoulive #Bromley
I was all about the #LocalHistory today. Harry and I went in to see the #CadaverStones in St Christopher's Chapel, Stamullen circa 1440. They belong to the Viscounts Preston of Gormanston. #HistoryOnOurDoorstep .
Popped by this morning to the exhibition on The Trinity Homes … an alms house in Brixton that recently celebrated its bi-centenary, at the newly reopened Lambeth Archives. A fascinating slice of local history 🏛️
#trinityhomes #lambeth archives #localhistory #brixton #lambeth
