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Marlene

@moliveiradev.bsky.social

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Software developer, accidental researcher, #AnneListerCodeBreaker, and Head of Personal Pampering for Miss A-, the black lab. Might play with cameras and old papers, if left to my own devices. https://www.packedwithpotential.org/

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Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 13h

Ooh, I had no idea! Thank you! I walked right past this last May wondering if there was another entrance, but totally missed this. 😆

Definitely something to check out next time I'm in York!

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Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡 @allthosebefore.bsky.social · 22h

For day 15 of #31DaysOfGraves the theme is #Damaged. This picture was taken outside St Paul’s Concert Hall in #Huddersfield. It was formerly St Paul’s Church, where my great-grandparents, Thomas Henry Dyson and Elizabeth Townend, were married in 1889.

Whole and broken gravestones laid as paving outside a church.

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Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 18h

I have not figured out how to go into the churchyard when the church is closed (if it's even possible?), but I'd like to eventually have a look at some graves. 🙂

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 2d

✨ If doors could speak, this one tells a tale of monks, kings and queens and scholars. Built into the abbot's house of St. Mary's Abbey. It saw Henry VIII and Catherine Howard, became a portal for the King's Council, then a place of learning.

The door is full of latent memory.

An ornate doorway at King’s Manor, York, with a carved stone surround and Stuart coat of arms above, set into weathered red brick walls.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 23h

Some more #WindowsOnWednesday in a drawing of the nave & west towers of York Minster. Drawing finished OTD 2021.

@yorkminster.bsky.social #pencil #drawing
#ArtYear

Pencil drawing of windows and flying buttresses of a cathedral.

Pencil drawing of the western towers, windows and flying buttresses of York Minster.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 3d

The grave of William Etty, 1787-1849, one of York's most prominent characters in the churchyard at St. Olave's Church, York.
Special thanks to @graveyardsquirrel.com for bringing this to my attention.

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Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't realise that Etty was buried there, so thanks for sharing this! The little I know about him is that he was friends with John Harper (the architect) and that he painted his portrait.

It looks like Etty was a very talented artist!

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Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 2d

I feel that, if you give me a very nerdy item that I can use to create things, you should absolutely be ready to receive one of those creations alongside what is possibly the nerdiest bit of origami you'll ever see.

I don't make the rules. 😆

Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 2d

This is totally going to be a pizza and books kind of evening because I fought numbers all day and my poor brain is now mush. 🙃

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 3d

John Atkinson Grimshaw was a master of moonlit streets and mist-draped docks, a painter who captured the very texture of the Victorian dream. His cityscapes, illuminated by the soft glow of gaslight, startled viewers with their precision and poetry, scenes where realism met reverie. Though

Shadows on the Park Wall, Roundhay, Leeds
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
Leeds Art Gallery Leeds Museums and Galleries

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Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 3d

It does not matter how many times I holiday in Yorkshire, the first thing I'll always think about are the things I'll eat and the friends I'll see again! 🙌

Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 3d

Milka Biscoff must be the best invention ever. I have loved many Milka chocolates, but this is like drugs. My god. I had to hide it! 😄

Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I look at archive references and wonder how they came about because the people mentioned in these listings should not exist! 😅

This one is for a will of a woman that is either the mother of the person who died in that year or some mysterious lost wife I had no idea of...

Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 3d

If you visit Lisbon and try those locally, maybe turn off notifications for that app? Those custard tarts are magical: you eat one and somehow 3 disappear! 😆

Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 4d

For once, waking up too early on a Sunday paid off: I'm already done with voting, so now I get to enjoy my day in peace. 🙌

Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 4d

On the bright side: at least all Halloween cards are now written and only need to be dropped off at the post office next week.

Then I can get a head start on the Xmas cards and festive seals.

Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 4d

I was convinced that I had counted correctly the number of Halloween wax seals I'd need, but now I'm missing one and I have zero idea if it was a mistake or if I used it for one of the cards I wrote two weeks ago and then forgot to replace it... 🙃

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 4d

The Mansion House, At Helen's Square, York. Commissioned by the Lord Mayor of York in 2018, so he could sell it for charity, at the pencil stage.

#MansionHouseYork
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare

Pencil drawing of a three storey building in the Classical style.

Pencil drawing of some railings in front of a Classical style building with sken people passing the building.

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romanbritain.bsky.social @romanbritain.bsky.social · 5d

Hoard of 160 gold aureus coins in a bronze jug, with two bronze #coins in the neck of the jug to disguise the worth of contents. Discovered below the floor of a #Roman house in Corbridge, Northumberland in 1911. Circa AD 160. British Museum.

#FindsFriday #RomanBritain

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 5d

Viewpoint. Cherry Hill Park, Ely.
#scape 📷 #photography

The west tower of Ely Cathedral glimpsed through trees from the park to its south. In the foreground is a wooden fence, a footpath, and a park bench arranged for looking across to the cathedral, with a litter bin next to it.

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Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 4d

Don't miss out on this #AnneLister Summit!

We have #c19th #fashion, #localhistory from the perspective of a #Wordsworth, and also a bit of American #history. 🗃️

Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 5d

⏳ Still haven’t grabbed your (free!) ticket to the #AnneListerSummit?

Let’s fix that.

Anne Lister Research Summit - Autumn 2025

An online conference for Anne Lister enthusiasts.

www.eventbrite.com

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Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 5d

Told myself I'd not go anywhere this weekend, but it turns out I have to go out on Sunday to vote.

Not that I'm thrilled to put on anything other than pyjamas all weekend, but then I'd rather not let the fascists win.

Marlene @moliveiradev.bsky.social · 5d

Went out for my usual night walk after dinner and ran into the woman who gave me Arizona. We ended up chatting for about 20 mins or so as I showed her pictures of Miss A- in all her fluffy splendour. 😆

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 7d

Autumn Regrets, painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836-93 (Shipley Art Gallery). #NorthernArt

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Alison Foster @retsofnosila.bsky.social · 7d

The various mind-blowing ceilings of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 😍
#Cathedral #historic #gothic #Norman

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