West Lindsey Churches Festival starts today, with 60 churches welcoming visitors over the weekend. It continues next weekend, 16/17th May, when more churches will be open. The picture posted here shows four of the churches taking part in the festival. Can you name them?
An impressive find from the Coppergate excavations in York late 1970s early 1980s. This Torksey ware pitcher, was made at Torksey in Lincolnshire, the site of a large Viking camp. It is decorated with thumb impressions made in the wet clay. On display at the Jorvik Viking Centre.
February 14 is not only Valentine's Day, it is also National Ferris Wheel Day, in honour of the birth of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., the inventor of the original Ferris Wheel.
The one shown here is a seasonal one constructed on the seafront in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
February 1 is National Serpent Day.
Here is a common European Adder, vipera berus, the UK's only venomous snake, basking in the sun on the North Yorkshire coast at Ravenscar.
Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
On this day in 1547 Henry VIII died. This portrait used to hang in Gainsborough Old Hall, when it was under the management of Lincolnshire County Council. We were asked to photograph and reproduce it as a postcard which was made available to visitors in the Old Hall gift shop.
We've added a missing piece to the picture https://t.co/OK4GmY8ZhA #HistoricEngland#MissingPiecesProject via @historicengland
Captain Cook's House, Grape Lane, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
Photograph taken 24 September 2025.