Ste Lingard
@stelingard.bsky.social
History & archaeology, esp. of northern England. Alumnus @ Sheff & Brum history. Freelance researcher & project manager in heritage sector @ www.sglingard.com. Chair @StHelensTownAFC.bsky.social.
I'm proud to be involved with a club that makes Cnut references. (And no, I don't do the social media.)
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'm proud to be involved with a club that makes Cnut references. (And no, I don't do the social media.)
For #SteepleSaturday, St. George's, Cullercoats, gracefully punctuating the north end of the Long Sands at #Tynemouth. Though a relatively recent addition, it is almost impossible to imagine the view without it. GI listed. #Northumberland #ChurchCrawling
📷 my own, 2024.
📷 my own, 2024.
December 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
For #SteepleSaturday, St. George's, Cullercoats, gracefully punctuating the north end of the Long Sands at #Tynemouth. Though a relatively recent addition, it is almost impossible to imagine the view without it. GI listed. #Northumberland #ChurchCrawling
📷 my own, 2024.
📷 my own, 2024.
More from magical Levisham Moor, for #FingerpostFriday: even in good conditions it is wise to carry a map up there, as it isn't hard to lose one's bearings. The occasional fingerposts are most welcome. (And yes, 'Dundale Griff' and the 'Hole of Horcum' are real, atmospheric, places.) #NorthYorkshire
December 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
More from magical Levisham Moor, for #FingerpostFriday: even in good conditions it is wise to carry a map up there, as it isn't hard to lose one's bearings. The occasional fingerposts are most welcome. (And yes, 'Dundale Griff' and the 'Hole of Horcum' are real, atmospheric, places.) #NorthYorkshire
"Some of the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers were given a barrel of beer by the Germans, for which they offered a plum pudding in return. The beer, from a French brewery just behind the German trenches, was so poor that the British shelled it a few days later." 🫡
I mean they fraternised with the Germans in no man's land, not whatever you were thinking. Also, the date that I post the link to my 1914 Christmas Truce blog seems to get earlier every year.
Understanding the 1914 Christmas Truce
They say they are not going to fire again if we don’t but of course we must and shall do, but it doesn’t seem right to be killing each other at Xmas time. [1] At Christmas 1914, hundred…
simonjoneshistorian.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"Some of the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers were given a barrel of beer by the Germans, for which they offered a plum pudding in return. The beer, from a French brewery just behind the German trenches, was so poor that the British shelled it a few days later." 🫡
Main entrance to the 1851 Cambridge Gun Tower, off Front Street, one of a pair protecting #PembrokeDock. Solid & stolid, in the late C19 it was home to a Sgt. & his family. Much later, it became the town museum for a time. Pic my own, from 2014. #AdoorableThursday #Pembrokeshire
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Main entrance to the 1851 Cambridge Gun Tower, off Front Street, one of a pair protecting #PembrokeDock. Solid & stolid, in the late C19 it was home to a Sgt. & his family. Much later, it became the town museum for a time. Pic my own, from 2014. #AdoorableThursday #Pembrokeshire
Holloways on Levisham Moor, #NorthYorkshire. At first glance it is a bleak, inhospitable place...but the old lanes are one of many signs that it has been a living, human landscape since prehistory. An afternoon spent wandering there is an invigorating form of time travel. #HollowayWednesday
📷 mine
📷 mine
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Holloways on Levisham Moor, #NorthYorkshire. At first glance it is a bleak, inhospitable place...but the old lanes are one of many signs that it has been a living, human landscape since prehistory. An afternoon spent wandering there is an invigorating form of time travel. #HollowayWednesday
📷 mine
📷 mine
The north east tower at #LaugharneCastle, on a distant and glorious Summer day. It is 13the century, with later alterations. The unfortunate collapse at least gives a good interior cross-section. #Castles #Pembrokeshire #TowerTuesday
📷 my own
📷 my own
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The north east tower at #LaugharneCastle, on a distant and glorious Summer day. It is 13the century, with later alterations. The unfortunate collapse at least gives a good interior cross-section. #Castles #Pembrokeshire #TowerTuesday
📷 my own
📷 my own
A similar view last year: the construction of the Arndale wiped out much of original view, but the Rylands Building (1932, the last great cotton warehouse and later department store) remains, the Wembley of Piccadilly Gardens. #Manchester #ThenAndNow
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A similar view last year: the construction of the Arndale wiped out much of original view, but the Rylands Building (1932, the last great cotton warehouse and later department store) remains, the Wembley of Piccadilly Gardens. #Manchester #ThenAndNow
The Great Tower at #Clun castle, built into the side of the motte in about 1300, designed to look like an old Norman keep - effectively, it's a showy extension. #MotteMonday #Castles #Shropshire
📷 my own
📷 my own
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The Great Tower at #Clun castle, built into the side of the motte in about 1300, designed to look like an old Norman keep - effectively, it's a showy extension. #MotteMonday #Castles #Shropshire
📷 my own
📷 my own
The dreamy barrel-vaulted choir ceiling @carlislecathedral.bsky.social. The structure is from circa 1400, but the heavenly painted decoration is from a 19th century restoration, repainted in 1970. #CeilingsOnSunday #Carlisle #Cumberland #Cathedrals
📷 my own
📷 my own
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The dreamy barrel-vaulted choir ceiling @carlislecathedral.bsky.social. The structure is from circa 1400, but the heavenly painted decoration is from a 19th century restoration, repainted in 1970. #CeilingsOnSunday #Carlisle #Cumberland #Cathedrals
📷 my own
📷 my own
The town of St Helens is just between Liverpool and Manchester. When I was a small child, in Liverpool, Mount St Helens, in Washington, erupted. Not having a grasp of geography, I spent two weeks in mortal fear of dying in a volcanic eruption before my dad set me straight.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I have an used last wall poster timetable for Manchester Exchange station - period ending with the station's closure on 3rd of May 1969. With it went destinations like Monton Green, Worsley, Tyldesley and Leigh.
The same view this year - the bridge itself has barely changed. Exchange Station building, however... #ThenAndNow #Manchester #Railways
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I have an used last wall poster timetable for Manchester Exchange station - period ending with the station's closure on 3rd of May 1969. With it went destinations like Monton Green, Worsley, Tyldesley and Leigh.
It's time for #PubFrontFriday, oyez: The Crown, on the market place at Wells. Depending on the source, the building began in the C15 or 16, with later alterations. William Penn (as in 'slyvania) preached from a window in 1695 & it was used as a location in 'Hot Fuzz'. Yarp. #Somerset #Pubs
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's time for #PubFrontFriday, oyez: The Crown, on the market place at Wells. Depending on the source, the building began in the C15 or 16, with later alterations. William Penn (as in 'slyvania) preached from a window in 1695 & it was used as a location in 'Hot Fuzz'. Yarp. #Somerset #Pubs
The same view this year - the bridge itself has barely changed. Exchange Station building, however... #ThenAndNow #Manchester #Railways
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The same view this year - the bridge itself has barely changed. Exchange Station building, however... #ThenAndNow #Manchester #Railways
I was heartened to see the #Lancashire county flag being flown from #StHelens Town Hall today. Well done @sthelenscouncil.bsky.social! #LancashireDay
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I was heartened to see the #Lancashire county flag being flown from #StHelens Town Hall today. Well done @sthelenscouncil.bsky.social! #LancashireDay
For #LancashireDay, a view along the Billinge-Parbold ridge, looking north from Billinge towards Upholland and beyond. It is a gentle, accessible haven from the nearby towns, and one of my favourite spots in my home county. Three cheers for it. #Lancashire
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
For #LancashireDay, a view along the Billinge-Parbold ridge, looking north from Billinge towards Upholland and beyond. It is a gentle, accessible haven from the nearby towns, and one of my favourite spots in my home county. Three cheers for it. #Lancashire
The Benty Grange Helmet, original & reconstruction. It was found in 1848 in a late C7 barrow in Derbyshire - the first Anglo-Saxon / early English example found in the country, 91 years before the #SuttonHoo discoveries. On display in Weston Park Museum, #Sheffield. #Museums Pics my own, from 2021.
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Benty Grange Helmet, original & reconstruction. It was found in 1848 in a late C7 barrow in Derbyshire - the first Anglo-Saxon / early English example found in the country, 91 years before the #SuttonHoo discoveries. On display in Weston Park Museum, #Sheffield. #Museums Pics my own, from 2021.
This will be good. I'm going to a gig, so can't make it - perhaps you could enjoy it on my behalf? (Ticket link in original post.) #Archaeology
My first online talk for nearly a year will take place tomorrow evening (Tue 25 Nov). It will look at how we can use archives, archaeology and dendrochronology to date ancient buildings.
This will be a brand new bespoke talk & I hope you can join us...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
This will be a brand new bespoke talk & I hope you can join us...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This will be good. I'm going to a gig, so can't make it - perhaps you could enjoy it on my behalf? (Ticket link in original post.) #Archaeology
Here's the #ArchimedesScrew before it was installed. 😲 A serious piece of kit. Pic via www.hydropol.cz
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Here's the #ArchimedesScrew before it was installed. 😲 A serious piece of kit. Pic via www.hydropol.cz
The Archimedes screw at Dutton hydroelectric power plant on the #RiverWeaver in action earlier today. It is quite mesmerising. #HydroElectricity #Cheshire
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Archimedes screw at Dutton hydroelectric power plant on the #RiverWeaver in action earlier today. It is quite mesmerising. #HydroElectricity #Cheshire
The #RiverWeaver near Northwich on the beautiful morning (enhanced by listening to TMS #TheAshes).
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The #RiverWeaver near Northwich on the beautiful morning (enhanced by listening to TMS #TheAshes).
#ErmineStreet, looking south just after the point it crossed the River Nene, at Water Newton (Durobrivae). The A1 swings in from the west to join the alignment. Pic from 1976. #Peterborough's suburbs & services have since encroached mightily from the left. #RomanRoadsFriday #RomanBritain
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
#ErmineStreet, looking south just after the point it crossed the River Nene, at Water Newton (Durobrivae). The A1 swings in from the west to join the alignment. Pic from 1976. #Peterborough's suburbs & services have since encroached mightily from the left. #RomanRoadsFriday #RomanBritain
A classic example of the famous dry stone door, in Bowness-on-Windermere. Robust, stylish and easy to maintain - you just have to remember to build them from the outside. #AdoorableThursday #Westmorland #LakeDistrict
📷 my own.
📷 my own.
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A classic example of the famous dry stone door, in Bowness-on-Windermere. Robust, stylish and easy to maintain - you just have to remember to build them from the outside. #AdoorableThursday #Westmorland #LakeDistrict
📷 my own.
📷 my own.
Eddisbury Hill, #Cheshire, as surveyed by the OS in 1874 and as revealed by modern LiDAR. Early/middle Iron Age, though the ramparts were likely restored by Æthelflæd of Mercia in 914, as part of the long-running campaign against the Vikings. See map alt text for more. #HillfortsWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Eddisbury Hill, #Cheshire, as surveyed by the OS in 1874 and as revealed by modern LiDAR. Early/middle Iron Age, though the ramparts were likely restored by Æthelflæd of Mercia in 914, as part of the long-running campaign against the Vikings. See map alt text for more. #HillfortsWednesday
The tomb of King William I and Queen Catherine of Württemberg, in a specially constructed mausoleum on the site of the ancestral castle, outside #Stuttgart. Their meeting, marriage (their second) & brief life together is a case study in post Napoleonic European history. #TombTuesday
📷 my own, 2023.
📷 my own, 2023.
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The tomb of King William I and Queen Catherine of Württemberg, in a specially constructed mausoleum on the site of the ancestral castle, outside #Stuttgart. Their meeting, marriage (their second) & brief life together is a case study in post Napoleonic European history. #TombTuesday
📷 my own, 2023.
📷 my own, 2023.