Helen
@helen60.bsky.social
I lived in Manchester for many years and am now back in my home county of Shropshire. Interests include history/genealogy. Family links to Shropshire, Cheshire, Flintshire, the Wirral, Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire, Gloucestershire and Devon.
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🎄 Day 14 of our #Shropshire advent calendar brings us to Bridgnorth, with the tower of St Leonard’s Church dominating the skyline. This was a day when the entire county was covered in a magical hoar frost, providing great opportunities for landscape photography. 🎅
December 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🎄 Day 14 of our #Shropshire advent calendar brings us to Bridgnorth, with the tower of St Leonard’s Church dominating the skyline. This was a day when the entire county was covered in a magical hoar frost, providing great opportunities for landscape photography. 🎅
#OTD 67 years ago my great-grandmother Lucy Mary Johnson (née Steadman) died and on this day 21 years ago my son was born. Time flies!
#genealogy #FamilyHistory
#genealogy #FamilyHistory
December 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#OTD 67 years ago my great-grandmother Lucy Mary Johnson (née Steadman) died and on this day 21 years ago my son was born. Time flies!
#genealogy #FamilyHistory
#genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Well done to all the tractor drivers at Oswestry tractor run.
Raising money for a great cause too
#oswestry #Shropshire
Raising money for a great cause too
#oswestry #Shropshire
December 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Well done to all the tractor drivers at Oswestry tractor run.
Raising money for a great cause too
#oswestry #Shropshire
Raising money for a great cause too
#oswestry #Shropshire
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Pictures from Christmas at Attingham Park
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Pictures from Christmas at Attingham Park
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Pictures from Christmas at Attingham Park
December 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Pictures from Christmas at Attingham Park
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🎄It’s Day 13 of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here are some ponies on the Long Mynd after overnight snow. Beautiful to look at, but I always find that they are less co-operative to photograph than sheep! ☃️
December 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🎄It’s Day 13 of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here are some ponies on the Long Mynd after overnight snow. Beautiful to look at, but I always find that they are less co-operative to photograph than sheep! ☃️
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December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Historical Buildings Research Tips #329
Sometimes you can just about make out a date on one of the walls of an old house...
Sometimes you can just about make out a date on one of the walls of an old house...
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Historical Buildings Research Tips #329
Sometimes you can just about make out a date on one of the walls of an old house...
Sometimes you can just about make out a date on one of the walls of an old house...
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🎄 Clun Castle is the subject of Day 12 in our #Shropshire advent calendar. In the distance is Sowdley Wood, which is part of Black Hill. I waited a long time to get a picture of the castle in snow, and I finally managed to tick it off my to-do list a couple of years ago. 🎅
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
🎄 Clun Castle is the subject of Day 12 in our #Shropshire advent calendar. In the distance is Sowdley Wood, which is part of Black Hill. I waited a long time to get a picture of the castle in snow, and I finally managed to tick it off my to-do list a couple of years ago. 🎅
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Christmas in the Shire... A Christmas tree in the drawing room at Attingham Park for #PalacesAndGardens #FestiveLights #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas Attingham Park is a Georgian Grade II* Listed English country house and gardens in #Shropshire - #EastCoastKin #lumix #GX8 #microfournerds
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Christmas in the Shire... A Christmas tree in the drawing room at Attingham Park for #PalacesAndGardens #FestiveLights #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas Attingham Park is a Georgian Grade II* Listed English country house and gardens in #Shropshire - #EastCoastKin #lumix #GX8 #microfournerds
Remembering my father-in-law who died #OTD in 1974 when my husband was 10. This is the only photo he has of just the two of them and I love it ❤️
#genealogy #FamilyHistory
#genealogy #FamilyHistory
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Remembering my father-in-law who died #OTD in 1974 when my husband was 10. This is the only photo he has of just the two of them and I love it ❤️
#genealogy #FamilyHistory
#genealogy #FamilyHistory
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From the cricket archive.
Programme from Worcestershire v Oswestry in May 1975. Signatures collected by me. The ages of the big stars are interesting
D'Oliveira 43
Turner 27
Gifford 35
Graveney 47(!) and I don't remember him playing.
#Worcestershire #Oswestry #Cricket
Programme from Worcestershire v Oswestry in May 1975. Signatures collected by me. The ages of the big stars are interesting
D'Oliveira 43
Turner 27
Gifford 35
Graveney 47(!) and I don't remember him playing.
#Worcestershire #Oswestry #Cricket
December 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
From the cricket archive.
Programme from Worcestershire v Oswestry in May 1975. Signatures collected by me. The ages of the big stars are interesting
D'Oliveira 43
Turner 27
Gifford 35
Graveney 47(!) and I don't remember him playing.
#Worcestershire #Oswestry #Cricket
Programme from Worcestershire v Oswestry in May 1975. Signatures collected by me. The ages of the big stars are interesting
D'Oliveira 43
Turner 27
Gifford 35
Graveney 47(!) and I don't remember him playing.
#Worcestershire #Oswestry #Cricket
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December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The Government's ambition's for the future of the railway must not ignore places like Shropshire, where transport links are nowhere near good enough.
#railwaybill #railways #Whitchurch #Oswestry #NorthShropshire #Shropshire
#railwaybill #railways #Whitchurch #Oswestry #NorthShropshire #Shropshire
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Government's ambition's for the future of the railway must not ignore places like Shropshire, where transport links are nowhere near good enough.
#railwaybill #railways #Whitchurch #Oswestry #NorthShropshire #Shropshire
#railwaybill #railways #Whitchurch #Oswestry #NorthShropshire #Shropshire
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🎄 Day 9 of our #Shropshire advent calendar takes us to historic Fish Street and St Julian's Church in Shrewsbury with - amazingly - no parked cars in sight! The street takes its name from the open air fish market which was held here until Victorian times. ☃️
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🎄 Day 9 of our #Shropshire advent calendar takes us to historic Fish Street and St Julian's Church in Shrewsbury with - amazingly - no parked cars in sight! The street takes its name from the open air fish market which was held here until Victorian times. ☃️
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🎄 Day 7 of our #Shropshire advent calendar is a wintry morning at Ironbridge, with the trees covered in a hoar frost. I spent about three hours walking up and down the gorge making the best of the conditions until the sun started to melt it all away. ☃️
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🎄 Day 7 of our #Shropshire advent calendar is a wintry morning at Ironbridge, with the trees covered in a hoar frost. I spent about three hours walking up and down the gorge making the best of the conditions until the sun started to melt it all away. ☃️
December 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Postcard sent from Park Hall Camp, Oswestry in 1916!
#Shropshire
#Shropshire
A postcard from my husband’s grandfather to his wife. If you check the angle of the stamp on one of the cards he sent, it corresponds with “I love you” in the ‘language’ of postage stamps.
How romantic!!
#postcards #FamilyHistory
How romantic!!
#postcards #FamilyHistory
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Postcard sent from Park Hall Camp, Oswestry in 1916!
#Shropshire
#Shropshire
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🎄 Beautiful Stokesay Castle surrounded by snow-covered fields is Day 6 in our #Shropshire advent calendar. I thought I’d just follow the footpath, take a picture and quickly head back to the car - but I had to wait in an icy wind for an hour until the sun came out from behind the clouds! 🎅
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🎄 Beautiful Stokesay Castle surrounded by snow-covered fields is Day 6 in our #Shropshire advent calendar. I thought I’d just follow the footpath, take a picture and quickly head back to the car - but I had to wait in an icy wind for an hour until the sun came out from behind the clouds! 🎅
One of my ancestral churches! My 4x great-grandparents Hugh Bennett Robinson and Mary Kemp were married here in 1781 #genealogy
3/3 Our Lady and St Nicholas, Liverpool, the medieval parish church of the city, though almost completely rebuilt after destruction during the Liverpool Blitz. It's the main Anglican presence in the city centre. St Nicholas is the patron saint of Liverpool, and today's his feast.
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
One of my ancestral churches! My 4x great-grandparents Hugh Bennett Robinson and Mary Kemp were married here in 1781 #genealogy
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View from the bedroom window this morning. #Shropshire
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
View from the bedroom window this morning. #Shropshire
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If only we had a railway line to go with it.
#Shropshire
#Shropshire
Work to restore the Grade 2 listed Oswestry Cambrian Railway building which dates from 1866 wins award at the National Railway Heritage Awards. 👇
#Shropshire
BBC News - Oswestry Cambrian Railway building restoration wins national award - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Shropshire
BBC News - Oswestry Cambrian Railway building restoration wins national award - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oswestry Cambrian Railway building restoration wins national award
The work has been given the BAM Nuttall Partnership Award at the National Railway Heritage Awards.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
If only we had a railway line to go with it.
#Shropshire
#Shropshire
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#339, Canal, Ellesmere, 03/12/2025
More mist, sun and Autumn trees from a few days ago.
#photography #ellesmere #shropshire #canal
More mist, sun and Autumn trees from a few days ago.
#photography #ellesmere #shropshire #canal
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#339, Canal, Ellesmere, 03/12/2025
More mist, sun and Autumn trees from a few days ago.
#photography #ellesmere #shropshire #canal
More mist, sun and Autumn trees from a few days ago.
#photography #ellesmere #shropshire #canal
If only we had a railway line to go with it.
#Shropshire
#Shropshire
Work to restore the Grade 2 listed Oswestry Cambrian Railway building which dates from 1866 wins award at the National Railway Heritage Awards. 👇
#Shropshire
BBC News - Oswestry Cambrian Railway building restoration wins national award - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Shropshire
BBC News - Oswestry Cambrian Railway building restoration wins national award - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oswestry Cambrian Railway building restoration wins national award
The work has been given the BAM Nuttall Partnership Award at the National Railway Heritage Awards.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
If only we had a railway line to go with it.
#Shropshire
#Shropshire
View from the bedroom window this morning. #Shropshire
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
View from the bedroom window this morning. #Shropshire