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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 3h

#31DaysOfGraves day 16 - obelisk. There is at least one in the jumble of varied stones at Canisbay #Caithness

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 18h

Members—your #OnePlaceStudies journal needs YOU! Our new Destinations editor Mick Warner is seeking submissions for December’s issue – articles, particularly with a festive theme or a focus on cemeteries; “One Place, One Paragraph” pieces; and potential cover pics are all welcome. #OnePlaceWednesday

Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · Sep 10

The latest issue of our #OnePlaceStudies journal Destinations—featuring articles on shoemakers, people connected to churches, and more—can now be downloaded from the Members’ Area of our website! Our thanks to Colin Ashworth, now stepping down as editor, for his sterling work. 👏🏻 #OnePlaceWednesday

Destinations – September 2025.
Image: Front cover of Destinations, the journal of the Society for One-Place Studies. It features a photo showing a mock-up of a cobbler’s workshop, a display at Earls Barton Museum.
Social ambition, scandal and the tragic fall of a shoemaker: Robert Tait.
Church and Chapel.
James Baikie, Shoemaker, Crockness.
The Parish Clerk and the Church Cleaner.
John Taylor and Co., bellfounders of Loughborough.
All About That Place.
Revd Richard Breeze, nonconformist minister in Lechlade.
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 22h

So frustrating.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 22h

Great imagination.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 22h

That’s tu bad

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 22h

Been fiddling the statistics?

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting. It’s a lovely area, not been there for at least ten years now.

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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 1d

ON grind ‘gate’ occurs in many #Orkney #PlaceNames incl. Dyke of Grind (Egilsay), Grind (North Ronaldsay & Stronsay), Grindaly (Stronsay) & Grindlays Breck (Rousay). The last 2 seem to contain hlíð ‘slope’, the latter also with ON brekka ‘slope’ or perhaps Scots breck (since hlíð appears forgotten)

Grindlay's Breck, Rousay. Colour photo of a croft on a slope.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

Same happened in Orkney but I think they had to reinstate some or all.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cake’
(Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

Photo realistic close-up in watercolour of a large slice of cream filled Victoria sponge

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

Quite possibly the stone that saved St John’s in 2015 gale when a window blew in and roof almost lifted off. Three local men managed to board up the window with a broken gravestone and ratcheted the door shut. #NorthWallsAndBrims #OnePlaceStudy

Small white painted church St John’s in grassy kirkyard with two stones in foreground.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves day 15 - damaged
In kirkyard at St John’s, North Walls, #Orkney my #OnePlaceStudy.
John Mackay b 1870 Evie Orkney son of John Mackay, schoolmaster & Penelope Sutherland. Farm servant @ Ore, North Walls 1891-1921 censuses. D North Seatter, North Walls (mother’s home) 1947 a 75.

Two halves of a gravestone right against a stone wall with grass in front. Lettering reads: Sacred to the memory of John Mackay who died at North Seatter 23rd February 1947 aged 75.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves day 14 inside St David’s Manordeifi Pembrokeshire Wales. I don’t remember who the tablet on the west wall commemorates but the one on the wall on its right is for Captain Charles Colby who was killed by a tiger - see commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mo...

Nave of a church with Georgian box pews and white walls. White memorial tablet on black mount on west wall. Arch to porch and open exterior door.

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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social · 2d

Squeezing this in before the end of the day! #31DaysofGraves - Day 13, Skeleton. Of course, it had to be this cheery and dynamic fellow from the gravestone of Kirkwall merchant Patrick Prince.

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 1d

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HMS Royal Oak : 14.10.1939 theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/14/h...

HMS Royal Oak : 14.10.1939

“The Navy has suffered a great loss of life in these first two months of war than all the other forces, French and British, on Land and Sea combined. ” – First Lord of the Admiral…

theorkneynews.scot

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

Done

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

Will message you.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

Catching the end of this discussion. Might be worth canvassing a rep or two on the new advisory panel? Have three names if that helps. Has met once.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

About 84% yes by now

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 12: Notable Women

Mary Titley, née Atcherley. My 3x great grandmother. Notable for inspiring my #OnePlaceStudy of the #Shropshire parish of Waters Upton! A visit to photograph her gravestone became a visit to photograph most of the other graves, and things escalated from there.

Memorial Inscriptions: Titley

< More Waters Upton Memorial Inscriptions / MIs in the churchyard Waters Upton churchyard MIs: TITLEY In affectionateremembrance ofJOHN TITLEY[Illegible]who died March 4th 1856,aged 60 years.Als…

waters-upton.uk

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 3d

I think he was in contact with us at St John’s Kirk - Walls Heritage and spoke to a good friend who helps maintain the grave. Good to know the book is out now.
Hope you avoid the worst of any bug.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 3d

Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves - Notable Woman

An unassuming slab of stone off the Fife coast at Torryburn covers the mortal remains of Lilias Adie, the only known grave of an accused witch in Scotland

Buried beneath the tidal line by superstitious villagers in 1704, her grave was rediscovered in 2014

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves - 12 Notable woman. The lonely grave of Betty Corrigall on the border of the parishes of Walls and Hoy #Orkney in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims Notable now for the sadness and poignancy of her story Read more here: www.scottish-places.info/features/fea...

A white gravestone (fibreglass actually) surrounded by a white picket fence tiny against a backdrop of brown heather and hills.

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 3d

I spotted this yesterday, so here's a return to #31DaysOfGraves Day 4: Languages. Xaipe is ancient Greek and can be translated into 'goodbye' or 'farewell', ‘rejoice’ or 'Godspeed' for dangerous missions. Fittingly broad meanings for a tomb’s inscription. #Xaipe #AncientGreek #Edinburgh #Language

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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