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@signsthereading.bsky.social

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Tony McGrath. Using signs, advertisements and messages as the inspiration for observation and comment - enlightened and otherwise Commemoration. Memorials. Graves. Headstones. readingthesigns.weebly.com

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 7h

Boom Boom !!!!

orsa-marga.bsky.social @orsa-marga.bsky.social · 13h

Sorry, I was expecting the grave of a Piper 😂

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 13h

Another tick off the TO VISIT list

St Govan's Chapel

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 14h

#31DaysofGraves Day 15: Damaged
Inside the remains of Sligo Abbey, Ireland lies this mysteriously defaced graveslab.
"Here lyeth the Boby of James ????? who died Decr the ??????. Aged ?? Years. Erected by his Mother ????????????"
This is very old damage & no one knows why....

Photo of defaced graveslab inside Sligo Abbey, Ireland
https://heritageireland.ie/places-to-visit/sligo-abbey/

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 14h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 15 Damaged

A very unusual surround not standing up to the elements

#Cloghane #DinglePeninsula

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 15h

-̶S̶p̶e̶c̶t̶e̶m̶u̶r̶ ̶A̶g̶e̶n̶d̶o̶

#SpectemurLibris
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Enjoyed

Hopefully a cure for the reading block that has been hanging around

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 19h

Next to a quarry methinks

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 1d

Everything has changed

Including the Mirrorball

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Mirrorball

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Every sign has a story behind it, and I suspect this one in Bowling, just to the west of Glasgow, might be more interesting than most.

#glasgow #bowling #A82 #roadsigns #weirdsigns #ignoresatnav #strangesigns #satnav #sign #signofthetimes #satnav

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 1d

A plaque recording that the field was a cillín was erected in 2003

Some unknown time afterwards, a stone was erected to remember Maurice John Breen who lay inside the cillín since 1949 - flowers and teddy bears followed

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Saturday Supplement - July 31st, 2021 | RadioKerry.ie

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 Inside

Upto not long a go some were not permitted to be buried INSIDE the parish cemetery, inside consecrated ground.

Unbaptised babies, non-Catholics, suicides were not allowed inside. Many were buried in Cillíní - small liminal spaces, bits of fields

#Derrymore #Kerry

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

Me, I'm just a lawnmower - you can tell me by the way I walk.

𝖂𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖗 @wertheimer.bsky.social · 2d

Selling England By the Pound

Genesis
13 Oct 1973
#MusicSky🎶

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

Beat that for coolness

Yr Spooky Friend Camille @yrouttasight.bsky.social · 2d

#31daysofgraves Day 13: Skeleton

Nmjc, hbu?

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 - Skeleton

A more conventional skeleton
#Kilmurry, #Limerick

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 - Skeleton

If one of definitions for SKELETON is something reduced to its minimum form or essential parts, does this qualify as a Headstone Skeleton

#Kilrush, Co. #Clare

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like a sticker response campaign

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

And South Mall

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like Phase 2 has started

Not a light pole around City Hall without a cable-tied flag - all effectively at half mast ( or half light pole)

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like #CemeteryCorvids

jen @jenzsky.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian…

#31DaysofGraves #monochrome
#cemetery #cemetaries #photography
#classicmono #b&w #birds

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 3d

#31daysofgraves • Military 🪦

Drummer Trevor Mower (d.1920) 🪦

📍Cathays Cemetery 🪦

#Wales #History

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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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3d

New in our online store! Unisex sweatshirts embroidered with the logo of the International Brigades – tens of thousands of working-class volunteers who travelled to Spain to help the fight against the fascists in the civil war. With global shipping: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/int...

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 3d

Two thoughts:

I had never seen a first name called SPRING before

Why is her mother's name not on headstone?