HistoricalTristan

Online Parish Clerk for Linkinhorne and South Hill parishes in Cornwall, UK.

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

As we enter yet another week of drought conditions please, I beg you, put out water for the animals.
Our nocturnal wildlife is dying of thirst.
A terrible, painful way to die.
And you hold the solution, the cure.
A turn of the tap will save a life.🚰
So get out your casserole pot lids, your flan dishes, your old baking trays - anything that is shallow and wide and not easily tipped.
It doesn't matter what it looks like, this is an emergency.
Put them out at dusk, front and back garden.
Your local charity shop will have loads of suitable water dishes - so with one simple act of kindness you can benefit so many.🥰
Keep them clean.
Keep them full.
Keep them coming.
Please share this to save a life today.

[HistoricalTristan @HistoricalTris1]

@sthelenafocus Thank you.

[Gretel Le Maître @GretelleMaitre]

This morning I stood & gazed up at this extraordinary dedication stone above the chancel arch at St Paul’s, Jarrow, dated 23 April 685, the oldest church dedication stone in England

The Church was dedicated to St Paul by King Ecgfrith & Abbot Ceolfrith. Bede spent his life here

[HistoricalTristan @HistoricalTris1]

@westcountrytim @francesca_kms I was a cyclist on that route before there were cycle lanes anywhere in the City. Before the death of Ying Tao finally sparked change. And before even the Critical Mass rides. It was a long battle but we won.

[HistoricalTristan @HistoricalTris1]

@JPLindsley Cherbourg doesn't have any Celtic roots. The first bagpipes there arrived on D-Day, 1944.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Everyone knows Dunkirk. 338,000 men rescued from the beaches, the "miracle" that saved Britain.

Almost nobody knows what happened 8 days later, 100 miles down the coast. This story was buried for years, and once you hear it you will understand why.

While Dunkirk was being evacuated, the 51st Highland Division was deliberately kept in France. Churchill wanted to prove to the French that Britain would not abandon them. So 10,000 Scotsmen kept fighting along the Somme while everyone else went home.

They fought well. Too well to retreat in time.

By June 10, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, moving so fast the Germans called it the Ghost Division, had cut them off from every port. The Highlanders fell back to a tiny fishing town called Saint-Valery-en-Caux, with cliffs at their backs and the Royal Navy on the way.

A second Dunkirk. That was the plan. Operation Cycle, ships waiting offshore.

Then the fog rolled in.

The ships could not reach the beaches in the dark and mist. And by morning, Rommel had artillery on the cliffs above the town, firing down on anything that floated. Men climbed down cliff faces on ropes made of rifle slings trying to reach boats. Some fell. The rescue never came.

On June 12, 1940, Major General Victor Fortune surrendered the 51st Highland Division to Rommel. There is a famous photo of the two men standing together, Rommel grinning, Fortune staring into the distance like he is somewhere else.

10,000 men marched east into 5 years of captivity. In parts of the Highlands, nearly every family knew someone in the bag. They called it the lost division, and for decades many Scots quietly believed they had been sacrificed.

Two details worth knowing.

Fortune was offered better treatment as a general. He refused privileges and stayed with his men for the entire war, organizing care for the sick and keeping discipline in the camps. He was knighted from a hospital bed after liberation.

And in September 1944, the rebuilt 51st Highland Division was given one specific assignment, at the request of its commander. They liberated Saint-Valery-en-Caux. The pipers played in the same square where their brothers had surrendered four years earlier.

Dunkirk got the movie. These men got the long war.

Worth remembering them today.

[HistoricalTristan @HistoricalTris1]

@marianagnche The USA has landed a probe on Venus. It managed this whilst having nearly universal domestic sanitation, washing machine ownership and paved roads, all of which Russia is yet to achieve. The US can also carry out a war without attacking civilians, something Russia has yet to try.

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@EMC2Marisa @findmypast That would be "infamous" 😂

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@EMC2Marisa Congratulations!

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@GerwatVirginia I see your black and white cat and raise you a half cat, half human.

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@KeepMovingTara There were watercolours of some ancestors on my grandmother's lounge wall. This is a room I was never invited into. Apparently, when she died my uncle turned up and took a carload of her stuff home without asking "because he was the eldest son" and the watercolours disappeared.

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@KeepMovingTara This photo must bring such joy. I don't think I have any photo featuring two great-grandparents together, though I have six in individual photos.

[Prickle Lodge - Hedgehog Rescue @pricklelodge]

With a heatwave predicted over the next few days, the need for providing fresh water is even more critical for our precious wildlife. Please help if you can, providing fresh water in clean shallow heavy dishes will help to save so many lives. Thank you 🙏 #hedgehog #wildlife

[HistoricalTristan @HistoricalTris1]

The Commonwealth WW2 war graves at Illogan church cemetery in Cornwall. Immaculately maintained. Many of these graves were airmen from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Nearby was RAF Portreath, which served as a submarine hunting station out into the Atlantic approaches.

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@wylfcen @StuartShrugged While...Wend is in some flavours of BASIC programming too.

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@Piquer @TristanAdm @16AirAssltBCT If only there were an easier way to visit!

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@clement_molin France was alone in May 1940? Apart from the 198000 British troops your army helped evacuate (with 140000 French and Belgian soldiers) from May 26th, and 300 dead at Calais. My grandfather didn't escape until June 7th. Is your Ukraine info is as poor as your history? Unfollowed.

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@wylfcen People where I live in Somerset say "young-un", which seems like your "junga".

[St Helena in Focus @sthelenafocus]

205 years ago there was a requirement for paper work.On 10 May 1821,Napoleon's death & burial were recorded in parish register on St Helena: Napoleon Buonaparte late Emperor of France,he died on 5th Instant at the Old House at Longwood and interred on Mr Richard Torbett’s Estate