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Linda Hardy
@lindahardy.bsky.social
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English born Australian
My interests: Genealogy mostly researching in England
loves old buildings, thatched cottages, architecture and history, photography, animals, nature, gardens, the sea, books
Location: Queensland, Australia
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I am finding the Ancestry website very slow at the moment, pages taking age's to load #Ancestry
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Pleasure Boat Inn #Hickling today
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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#AdoorableThursday Looking out to the sea from the ancient doorway of St Winwaloe's, the 'Church of the Storms', on western Lizard, #Cornwall

📷 Yesterday
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Joseph Bazalgette probably did more to modernise the fabric of Victorian London than any other person. You can read his life story here www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/joseph-bazal...
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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#AdoorableThursday Foredale Farm, Helwith Bridge, North Yorkshire.
Door with decorative doorhead dated 1731 at Foredale Farm. Close view of 1731 doorhead at Foredale Farm. View of Foredale Farm, with sheep trotting past, taken from the public footpath.
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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This Grade II* windmill in Thaxted, Essex, built in 1804 for John Webb, is a red brick tower mill that has been restored but lost a sail in 2010, closing it to visitors. Funding is now secured for essential repairs. We look forward to seeing it operational again!

📷: Andy Stephenson
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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One of our resident wood pigeons for #BirdoftheDay #fluffy
Puffed up wood pigeon sitting on a trellis fence
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I love the one of the gorilla 😀
#Photography
wwf.org.uk WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 12d
Soaring in to share some of the funniest wildlife images of the year. 📸

These are just some of the 40 finalists part of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards with Nikon Europe!

Winners will be announced on the 9th December. 🏆
A red squirrel mid jump, photographed from below, its body spread out and arms up, almost making it look flat as it soars in the sky. The ground is blurred tones of greens and browns. A porcupine fish faces the camera in light clear blue waters, its mouth open and eyes are big giving a very cute appearance as it looks into the lens. Three lions huddled together in long grass, all yawning at the same time. The middle lion is stood up with its back arched and tail in air. An infant gorilla standing in green foliage, scratching under its arm while its right leg is held up in the air.
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Rectory at St Ive near Liskeard #Cornwall
Home of Emily Hobhouse
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
lindahardy.bsky.social
when I do #genealogy research I tend to go off on every branch and just keep on going, since doing a Ancestry DNA Test many years ago, I've added what I call floating trees as well without actually connecting them to my main tree so I think its time for a tidy up #familytree
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
lindahardy.bsky.social
so where do you park your car? a long walk with your groceries if you happen to live in the last house especially if it's raining
#Scotland
undisscot.bsky.social Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social · 14d
The amazing village of Crovie, built between the base of the cliffs forming the east side of Gamrie Bay on the north Aberdeenshire coast and the sea. The shelf it stands on is so narrow it only has room for a row of cottages and a path. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland
Crovie. The image shows a view from a high viewpoint down onto a village that stretches along a narrow shelf at the foot of grassy cliffs and immediately above a blue sea with large white waves. The village stretches from the bottom right of the frame most of the way to the top left and there is a long pier, awash in the waves stretching across the bottom of the frame. The scene is in sunlight.
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty, telling the story of the town’s most famous son, the geologist and writer Hugh Miller, who lived from 10 October 1802 to 24 December 1856. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #HughMiller #Cromarty #BlackIsle
Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty. The image shows a white two-storey thatched building end-on to a street on the right and continuing away and to the left beyond a garden with railings this side of it. Facing the street beyond the first building is a substantial two-storey stone house with beige harling. The scene is in sunlight.
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Let me share a beautiful autumn day in Ely, Cambridgeshire. With a blue sky, colourful trees and a sunrise on the river.
November is a stunning month for sure.
“I love Nature and how it nourishes our Souls. ~ Veronica in the Fens”
November 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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St. Ives, Cornwall

#cornwall #stives #harbour #beach #panoramic #view #photo #photography #photograph
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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1/ New Bolsover, Derbyshire: a model village built between 1891 and 1896 by the Bolsover Colliery Company for its workers to the designs of Arthur Brewill and Basil Baily. It comprised a double horseshoe of houses arranged around a central 'village' green and also included ...
Three-storey housing facing green open space Two-storey terraced housing Three-storey terraces around 'village green'
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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One of the houses built into the ruined west front of the former Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #BuryStEdmunds
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Simple things... love this holy trinity of jaunty Georgian portals in Bridlington yesterday. Full of personality.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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#LocalHistory
londonstone.bsky.social Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 13d
When John Styleman, a director of the East India Company, died in 1734 he left money for these 12 almshouses to be provided at Bexley for the local poor. They were built in 1755 after the death of his widow. They continue to be managed by a charity and are Grade II listed.
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows

Shadows from colonnades at the Queen’s House in Greenwich
Two long rows of white columns heading towards a wooden door in the distance, which is part of a white Georgian building. There are shadows across the light stone floor from the columns on the right at a slight angle.
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
lindahardy.bsky.social
what a beautiful house, I want to move in
#Thatched #Cottage #House #Photography
roaringmeg.bsky.social Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 13d
Complicated roofline ? This house was recently re-thatched. Can’t imagine how much that cost!! #Buildings #Architecture
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Fabulous building, possibly farm (not sure of the name) on the Leeds Country Way near the southern portal of Bramhope Tunnel between Leeds Bradford Airport & Cookridge Hall Golf Club, Leeds.
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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this is cute
#Architecture #Photography
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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My set of images for #KaleidoSaturday this week are from a photo I took several weeks ago of trees at Salford Quays against a dull white sky.
November 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow In France in this area this is the sign of #Autumn

#France 2025 #©SteveC #noAI #Photography using Vintage Lenses to embrace #Wabi-sabi, for real beauty is always "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete"
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Last one from me for #KaleidoSaturday
Thanks to everyone who takes part and see you all next week.
November 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM