Christopher LONG

Once a British journalist, editor & foreign correspondent... Now exploring Normandy and all aspects of the Anglo-Norman adventure.

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

So they aren’t salts (for table salt)? I have a similar one which I’m fairly certain was made in France.

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

A symbolic arrowhead - but it does sometimes look like a a crow’s foot!

[Lara Maiklem FSA - The London Mudlark @LondonMudlark]

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I only collected tacks with ordnance marks. They are in the shape of a tiny crow foot and would have marked them as government property to deter thieves.

I’ll keep the navy nails, but the rest will be going back to the river next week.

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

Very interesting and just as interesting as it would be if you left out the gratuitous and entirely unnecessary expletives. You should save those words for occasions that deserve them!

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

Wonderful, but please get the maintenance teams to dab some grease in the hinges of the superb iron and bronze fittings at CWG cemeteries. When I was young they were systematically greased. Now in France, where I live, gates are often noisy and starting to drop through wear…

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

🔨 Our blacksmiths work throughout the year to maintain the metal elements of our sites.

Here, we see them working on replacing the gates at Neuve-Chapelle Memorial, France.

Thank you to all those who dedicate their craftsmanship to maintaining our sites.

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

Flintshire ?

[Graham Heap @ggheap]

Can any of my genealogy friends help please - I am looking to work out the place of birth (4th line down for Mary Ann Quinn) - I have some ideas for the county but not the place

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

Very nice… but what is it?

[Rebecca Griffiths @YORYM_FLO]

IT'S FINALLY HERE! So excited to see this in person. One of only 11 examples of its type currently known from England. Thanks to the finder @adamk8 for handing this in for recording @findsorguk So excited to work on this one. #Roman #HeadstudBrooch #DoubleTrouble #Exciting

[Dorothy Rodger @GuidingScotland]

This is an amazing project, right in the heart of #Glasgow.

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

Thank you for this invaluable initiative, especially for us historians here in Normandy. Do hope you’re keeping in close touch with Dominique Béneult @cotentinologue1 whose recent work on the relevant dates, times and tides and likely rocks is remarkable…

[Charles Spencer @cspencer1508]

The Quillebœuf Rock took down The White Ship 900 years ago - changing the course of English History by claiming the life of the sole male heir to the throne. Let’s see if she has any mementoes to surrender today. The divers are getting ready. #thewhiteship

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

The constant negativism of the British press must be SO depressing for health workers and others doing their best in appalling, exhausting and frustrating circumstances...

[Back in Time West London @OldLondonW14]

The mass vaccination programme is bound to have teething problems with the appt system. Radio 4 interviewing someone who had a long wait at Epsom. But is it worth 3 plus mins on the radio? In the grand scheme of news worthy things?

[Sarah Blick @SarahBlick3]

#MedievalTwitter Squints carved into screens allowed worshipers to focus on the elevation of the host during Mass, while kneeling.
https://t.co/ogJrwigz9p
https://t.co/SzHWZDv8bv

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

Q: Why did the Dauphin have a food-taster? A: To check, of course, that his food was fit for porpoise.

[Pete Savin @pete_savin]

Inside the church of St John the Baptist at Tunstall is a reused roman altar to the god Asclepius god of Medicine which probably came from nearby Calacvm fort in the Lune Valley #RIB609 #RomanBritain

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

I have been asked an interesting question. Why does London’s Moorgate tube station have a mix of “traditional” bar-and-Circle roundels... and weird diamonds? Well... (1/6)

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

Hope this freezing child was allowed into the house and sat beside the fire and given something warm to eat and drink, bless him/her !!! Lovely message...

[Friendless Churches @friendschurches]

Part two of our Director’s update.

... And if you'd like to donate to help us save these churches, here's a handy link:

https://t.co/J7XUvoHxxK

[𝙃𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚 @thorneh]

The Roman building outline on Lowbury Hill with what look to be burial mounds? It is good to see it from this unique perspective as a whole and in low light as the markings cannot be easily made out from the ground.
https://t.co/lUKLR03JcQ
#Romans

[Christopher LONG @calongeditor]

Félicitations, Loup, et bonne année bien sûre !

[Loup Guesnon @Loup_Guesnon]

Merci beaucoup ! Je tiens à remercier l'association et la @RevueHSR qui mettent en avant les travaux de recherche de master, ainsi que mes directeurs @Maneuvre et @MoriceauJM qui m'ont permis de réaliser cette étude sur l'industrie du cuivre à Villedieu.

[VAG @VArchGroup]

Two adjacent 3-storey 1-bay wide timber-framed gabled houses with jettied upper floors. Early 15C right (with collar rafter roof), late 15C left (roof with 3 crown post trusses at front and 2 queen post trusses at rear). The etching is undated. Shambles, York. #VirtualVernacular

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

Thank you and welcome! We need more young Victorians. We will, when allowed, hold some kind of social event for young members.

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

The @CWGC are saddened to hear of the passing of Stephen Grady OBE at the age of 95. Following in his father’s footsteps Stephen (centre) joined the IWGC as a Gardener in the 1940s - rising to the position as Director, France Area. In #WW2 Stephen served in the French Resistance.