Posy Hill
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Graveyard grovellings, church crawling, history, heraldry, oddities and amusements.
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Joined February 2017
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Traitors Arms “a vitally important narrative concerning the use of propaganda against the Duke of York… shocking through its utter vindictiveness and tells us so much about Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrian court”. Philippa Langley MBE 1/3...
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@Charlottine25 @ENortonHistory Would have been with but we didn’t get that far (no pun intended😆)
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@churchartnature @CathyRLowe @StroudStory @todbooklady @chartres_Fiona @CarolineIrwin3 @SarahBlick3 @Portaspeciosa @DavidMa16901372 I’ve seen a few, the only one I could recall is the C16 Barneby monument in Bockleton, interestingly “the work of Dutchman Gerard Holleman” Pevsner. #MonumentsMonday
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@OAMedievalist @ENortonHistory Mother had the talent, she died 7 years ago, I just did the easy bit. Here’s more of her work
#AnimalsInChurchesHour #FabricsInChurches A selection of the rainbow of hassocks in Ashperton church, one for each century, designed by my Mum and sewn by her and the ladies of the village - mine’s C16 😊
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@eckerusla @pacoulmag You were lucky, we were there last summer but it was a very grey day - typical Marches weather🤷♀️
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@Marilyn_Res @ENortonHistory Thanks, there are a few more, here’s one, and an unfinished one I must get back to, sometime…
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@davecraige @SohailSNAhmed Thousands of British servicemen gave their lives to end the vile trade:
#ShakespeareSunday Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Julius Caesar 2:2 John Beresford Fountain who was “cruelly massacred” along with his crew while trying to suppress slavery. Tupsley 📸 Angela Golding
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#ShakespeareSunday All that glisters is not gold— Often have you heard that told. Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold. Gilded tombs do worms infold. MOV 2:7 William Leighton of Plaish d1607 keeping up appearances in St James, Cardington, Shropshire.
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@Jawgenius @ENortonHistory More of Mother’s handiwork, I think there are 12 in all, arranged in date order they are the colours of the rainbow.
#AnimalsInChurchesHour #FabricsInChurches A selection of the rainbow of hassocks in Ashperton church, one for each century, designed by my Mum and sewn by her and the ladies of the village - mine’s C16 😊
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