Detail from one of a series of epic wall mosaics in the nave's north aisle Chester Cathedral, this one depicting Moses - armed to the teeth with Commandments. Designed by JR Clayton, made by Burke & Co., 1883-6. #MosaicMonday #Cathedrals #Cheshire #Chester 📷 My own.

Good morning all. #SuburbanSunrise

One week tonight we welcome James Wright to TheWorldofGlass #StHelens for the first 2025 gig of his epic mythbusting tour. Tickets are going well, but we have space for you - join us, via the link. #Archaeology eventbrite.co.uk/e/historic-bui…

"The stone marking the boundary of the two parishes [Holy Cross & St. Giles, Abbey Foregate & St. Julian #Shrewsbury] which formerly stood on the Old English or Stone Bridge demolished in 1774." Now on a plinth on the town side of the new bridge. #Shropshire #Boundaries 📷 My own

Startham Hall once stood here, above Carr Mill Dam. It was demolished in the middle of the last century. Just some rubble & a shape in the lane remains. The arrows on the modern aerial & circa 1900 OS map show the location. Photo my own, from yesterday. #StHelens #Lancashire

The solid and dependable Hare & Hounds, Longshaw, #Billinge, right on the #Wigan / #StHelens Borough borders. A welcome sight when walking 10+ mile loops through the countryside between the two. #PubFrontFriday #Lancashire 📷 My own, 2024.

The church of St. Mary, #Lastingham, #NorthYorkshire Moors. Founded 1078 on the site of a 7thC monastery that had been destroyed by the Danes. Bede wrote: "among some remote hills...more suitable for the dens of robbers & haunts of wild beasts than for human habitation". 📷 Mine.

The sun nosing through the woods by the Black Brook. Morning all. #Lancashire

Final call for this, which is tomorrow night. Tickets via the link. Cheers! #Archaeology #StHelens

Looking forward to speaking TheWorldofGlass in St Helens tomorrow as part of a Mythbusting book tour event organised by Ste Lingard Part of the talk will look at burn marks... often assumed to be accidental but now thought to ward off evil Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/historic-bui…

Thank you to James Wright for a fascinating talk in #StHelens last eve, & being an all-round trouper. Thanks also to everyone who joined us, & especially Bob Ellis for his help. A big cheers to Katie, Mark & Aston TheWorldofGlass, too, for all that they did. #Archaeology

A slice of simple Georgian elegance in the heart of #Sheffield: main entrance to 14 Paradise Square, one of a terrace of five houses (now offices) from circa 1736. Grade II* listed. Pic my own, from a gloomy day in 2013. #Yorkshire #AdoorableThursday

Romans to the right of us, at Cawthorn Roman Camps, #NorthYorkshire. #FingerpostFriday 📷 My own.

The C13 font Peterborough Cathedral, made from Alwalton marble. Thrown out at some point (perhaps during the Civil War) & rediscovered in a nearby garden in the 1820s. The Cathedral announced this week it is in financial crisis, needing £300k urgently. #FontsOnFriday #Peterborough

The Horseshoe Inn, facing the village green at #Levisham, on the #NorthYorkshire Moors. It's a quality pub & makes a great halfway house for a loop walk across the moors & back through the Hole of Horcum. Sometimes cut off during snow. #PubFrontFriday 📷 My own.

St. Andrew's Church, #Southport, photographed from Yellow House Lane in 1965...and the same view in 2020. The church was demolished in the mid 1970s, having stood 100 years. #SteepleSaturday #Lancashire #ThenAndNow

'Liable to Floods'. Farmland in the 1840s, #PenningtonFlash now, caused by mining subsidence. The inundated land included "Urmston's in the Meadows" moated farmhouse, abandoned in about 1910. #Leigh #Lowton #Lancashire #MapMonday

Morning all. This account is now hibernating, indefinitely. You can find me in other places, should you wish. I hope to return, should better days come. Meanwhile, thank you for everything. All the best!