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Lancashire Telegraph @lancstelegraph.bsky.social · 15h

Clitheroe war memorial restored and ready for Remembrance Sunday

Clitheroe’s historic war memorial has been refurbished ahead of schedule

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 23h

Clitheroe Castle from Salthill Quarry
#Clitheroe #Castle #RibbleValley #Lancashire #Photography

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 1d

What is “no kings”? Some of the countries on that list have kings, the UK for example, is it anti-monarchist or just against having leaders? Many people in the UK want parliament dissolved and King Charles taking control, also is it just kings? What about queens? (I have sooo many questions!)

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Towneley Hall Museum & Art Gallery @towneleyhall.bsky.social · 1d

It’s National Thank Your Cleaner Day and we’d like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Michelle, who keeps the Towneley facilities and foyer so wonderfully clean for us all. We appreciate Michelle’s hard work every single day, as we know all our visitors do too!

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#NationalThankYourCleanerDay2025

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 1d

I was told last night that there’s a guy who goes around padiham nicking apples etc from everyone’s gardens and selling them, there’s quite a few apple trees around town if you know where to look

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 1d

Hedgehogs are one of the most recognised mammals in the UK, they are also in severe decline, Read more about this charming and rather unique mammal here:
#Hedgehogs #Wildlife #Nature
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Hedgehogs

The European Hedgehog, Erinaceous europaeus, is our only spiny mammal and in severe decline at the moment, it is also one of the most recognised animals in Britain. Typically pictured in a rural se…

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 2d

Look at all these pears!
Free from a neighbour, Smooth Conference as well so very versatile.
What should we make with them though? 🍐🤔
#fruit #harvest #Autumn2025

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 2d

Tonights writing tunes;
Going through Lorn’s back-catalogue,
I never knew he’d released anything as funky as this!
#WritingTunes #Writing #Music #Lorn
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Lorn - I Wonder

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rwhooster @rwhooster.bsky.social · 2d

In North Yorkshire's Yearsley Woods, a Merveille du Jour on pine needles. In order to see my first Merv of the year, I had to book a holiday. I actually caught three of them.

#teammoth #mothsmatter #moths

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 2d

I must be a bog body too as I can remember a couple of my house numbers from the 90s, thinking about it I don’t like the people that now live in one of them so I’m tempted to put it on here!

Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll have to take a look

Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 2d

In the latest addition to my Unnatural Histories collection I tell the tragic tale of Private Patrick McCaffery
#Preston #Lancashire #History
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Unnatural Histories; The Tragic Tale of Private Patrick McCaffery

In the latest addition to my Unnatural Histories collection I return to a part of Lancashire I grew up in to look deeper into the background of a ghost story we heard many times as children. It is …

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 3d

Neanderthals were here first, but we outbred them and gave them diseases they had no immunity for, they were at least as smart as us too, we’ll get killed off or absorbed into something else at some point

Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 3d

I’m fairly picky tbh, there are at least a dozen artists that I listen to, who I keep an eye out for, and it’s quite hard for a new artist to make that list, I also seek music that creates a story or landscape in my mind, Hopkins does this, soundscape is a very good term for it

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve got hundreds of these, orb web spiders, you can’t go out without destroying their artworks 😢
I find myself walking about like an Egyptian trying to avoid getting cobwebs in my face!

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 3d

Tonights writing tunes;
Jon Hopkins Immunity, such a good album, has he released anything recently?
What do you listen to whilst working?
#WritingTunes #Writing🖋️ #Music🎶
@jonhopkins.bsky.social
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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 3d

Nice, I like that, spider webs are truly amazing things aren’t they?

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 3d

Just looked at my childhood home (I know you’re not meant to do this) as I’m writing about Fulwood barracks opposite and discovered that, as well as the garden looking beautiful, the fir tree I planted with my dad in 1984 is still there and about 50ft tall!
#Preston #Childhood

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 4d

Heritage Craft Workshops in Edale (High Peak)
#HighPeak #Edale #Derbyshire #crafting
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From the RuralUK community on Reddit: Heritage Craft Workshops in Edale (High Peak)

Posted by walkinglantern - 6 votes and 0 comments

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 4d

Birdle 🇬🇧 12/10/2025

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 4d

Fog-webs!
Let’s see your foggy photos too
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#fog #photography #weather

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 5d

What’s this beastie building itself a hibernaculum on my tarp I wonder?
#entomology #insects #nature

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 5d

In my latest article on #Northwestnatureandhistory we go foraging for Chanterelle 🍄‍🟫
➡️ northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2025/10/11/c...
#Funghi #Foraging #Autumn #Mycology

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Northwest Nature and History @nwnandh.bsky.social · 6d

Birdle 🇬🇧 10/10/2025

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