Postcards showing Arisaig house and surrounding scenes, undated.
From the Arisaig Estate Papers, part of the West Highland Museum Collection.
(L/D130/B/9/2)
#lochaber#arisaig#scotland#archives#history#HLH
Our Quarter Sessions bundles (QSB) contain records of all manner of misdemeanours dealt with by the North Riding Justices. Head over to our blog site to find out more about the court sessions and the cases! https://t.co/JEAiSHhEjS #EYACrime@explorearchives 🧑⚖️
Our latest exhibition opens today, 'Chandler's Ford D-Day' which looks at the role Chandler's Ford played during 1944. The exhibition is on show during our usual opening hours (Tue, Wed, Thu 9.30-4pm) until 24 Jun. #hampshirearchives#HampshireHeritage
New arrivals in the museum shop - 4 beautiful #bottleoven artworks by Terry Woolliscroft - clockwise from top left 'Bottle Oven Ghosts, Meakins', £95, 'Top Bridge Works', £110, 'The Smithfields', £95 and 'Falcon Works', £135.
#bottlekilns#paintings#staffordshire#stokeontrent
Nice to see the sun at last, so here's a sunny day in October 1955, at the corner of Hessle Road and Pickering Road, with St Nicholas's Church (demolished 1968) in the centre.
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🗓️ #OnThisDay 16 Feb 1942
HMS Thrasher could not dive after two bombs lodged in her casing.
Lt Peter Roberts and PO Thomas Gould worked together to remove them, saving everyone on board.
Both were awarded the Victoria Cross.
https://t.co/RobYA0nRbK
📷 Thrasher Crew + damage
🗓️ #OnThisDay | 6 Feb 1922
Washington Naval Treaty signed, limiting battleship numbers, tonnage, gun size & introduced a ten year pause on construction. Britain’s alliance with Japan ended & global naval power was reshaped.
HMS Nelson - first battleship built under these rules.
As Saturday is the International Day of Education, this week's Archive Animals is this group photo at Arden House school, Henley-in-Arden with not one, but three dogs!
📸 WCRO, CR1760/22/3
#ExploreYourArchive#ArchiveAnimals#Archives#History
Today we’d like to wish @MaidstoneMuseum a very happy 168th birthday!
Just a stone’s throw from Kent Archives, the museum’s diverse collection contains over 600,000 artefacts — from Japanese decorative art and Ancient Egypt to ethnography and local history 🏺📿
☟ See H/U18/44
A 100 years ago (1926) this beautiful little Medical Guide was given out to customers of Blunts Chemists shop on Brierley Hill High Street. Probably not wise to follow all it's advice today.
(LS 9582/34/22) 'Verisan' Medical Guide, 1926
#ExploreYourArchive#chemists #1926
Our #NewAccession is a digital copy of a map of Middle Peak & Stoneycroft quarries, produced when Stanton Ironworks Lt took 50% ownership from Bowne & Shaw Ltd in the 1920s. The Wirksworth firm traded in ironstone & limestone. The original plan is thought to have been destroyed.
📅 13 January 1873 - Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar received a Royal Navy fleet review.
The visit placed Portsmouth on an international stage. Thousands took part, ships were dressed & the city became the centre of global naval diplomacy.
https://t.co/RKghAz633Z
📷 Jungmann & Schorn
#MapOnATuesday today is one of our earliest maps - 'Warwic Lecestriæq' comitat'. A hand-coloured map of Warwickshire and Leicestershire by Christopher Saxton, 1576. Engraved by Leonard Terwoort. MAL/13988 @LibraryofBham
Today's #MapMonday is a tiny plan of the Earl of Ailesbury's estate at Whorlton & Potto, proposed to be exchanged with Edward Wolley Esquire (1804) [ZJX]
This mid-19th century recipe for a plain Christmas pudding has been made specifically with children in mind! It contains most of the ingredients found in a traditional recipe, but without the usual addition of brandy.
📸WCRO, CR2025/2
#ArchiveRecipes#ExploreYourArchive
#OTD in 1903, Harry Houdini performed at the Palace Theatre, exhibiting there several times. He jumped from Corporation Pier in 1914 and parts of his film, Haldane of the Secret Service were filmed here: https://t.co/EaCbgGHsuz
(Image: Houdini in the Humber)
#Hull#HarryHoudini
Don't miss out, there are only a few more days for you to tell us about a document that you would like to have digitised in 2026.
Help to guide our digitisation programme by completing our form online. https://t.co/4vZlvexR69
A list of the Chemists in Dudley that had agreed to close on the 26th December, 1870 for the Christmas holidays. This was a year before a law was passed to introduce Bank Holidays (1871).
PO/ 795 - Poster of Christmas Holidays
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