Society for One-Place Studies
@oneplacestudies.bsky.social
www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
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A few useful links to pages and resources on the Society for #OnePlaceStudies website:
✦ Home page
✦ About us
✦ What is a one-place study?
✦ A guide to one-place studies (PDF)
✦ Registered Studies
✦ Blogging prompts
✦ Events
✦ Join us
#OnePlaceWednesday
✦ Home page
✦ About us
✦ What is a one-place study?
✦ A guide to one-place studies (PDF)
✦ Registered Studies
✦ Blogging prompts
✦ Events
✦ Join us
#OnePlaceWednesday
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This was Kirkwall harbour, #Orkney on #ArmisticeDay, taken by Tom Kent. In The Orcadian newspaper on the 14th November 1918 it was reported that upon receiving news of the armistice 'the shipping in harbour and the streets of Kirkwall were quickly bedecked with bunting...'
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This was Kirkwall harbour, #Orkney on #ArmisticeDay, taken by Tom Kent. In The Orcadian newspaper on the 14th November 1918 it was reported that upon receiving news of the armistice 'the shipping in harbour and the streets of Kirkwall were quickly bedecked with bunting...'
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#RemembranceDay Today I also remember the boys from Long Buckby Wharf, my distant cousins Herbert and Percy George Major, both killed in WW1.
Donald Cobb and Rex Hemming Hill were killed during the Second World War.
#OnePlaceStudies
Donald Cobb and Rex Hemming Hill were killed during the Second World War.
#OnePlaceStudies
First World War
We Are [showcasing your family history like never before]
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November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#RemembranceDay Today I also remember the boys from Long Buckby Wharf, my distant cousins Herbert and Percy George Major, both killed in WW1.
Donald Cobb and Rex Hemming Hill were killed during the Second World War.
#OnePlaceStudies
Donald Cobb and Rex Hemming Hill were killed during the Second World War.
#OnePlaceStudies
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#ArmisticeDay Five women who died during two world wars are remembered in Crieff Cemetery - Sisters Jessie McRobbie and Mary Watson from #WW1 and Lucy Stalker FANY, Anne Archibald Drummond WRNS and Mina Kippen VAD from #WW2.
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#ArmisticeDay Five women who died during two world wars are remembered in Crieff Cemetery - Sisters Jessie McRobbie and Mary Watson from #WW1 and Lucy Stalker FANY, Anne Archibald Drummond WRNS and Mina Kippen VAD from #WW2.
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#RemembranceDay More men have been added to the #BoatFamilies list of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice during the First World War.
#OnePlaceStudies
#OnePlaceStudies
World War 1
We Are [showcasing your family history like never before]
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November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
#RemembranceDay More men have been added to the #BoatFamilies list of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice during the First World War.
#OnePlaceStudies
#OnePlaceStudies
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As part of the 1st London General Hospital during WWI, our Top Ten Endangered Building in Lambeth - the Victorian Cormont Road Board School - was the first posting of writer and campaigner Vera Brittain when she served as a VAD.
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
As part of the 1st London General Hospital during WWI, our Top Ten Endangered Building in Lambeth - the Victorian Cormont Road Board School - was the first posting of writer and campaigner Vera Brittain when she served as a VAD.
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Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War.
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Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed as a great success, but it had unexpected consequences.
🔓 John Martin’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
🔓 John Martin’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Ploughing Up Postwar Britain
www.historytoday.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed as a great success, but it had unexpected consequences.
🔓 John Martin’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
🔓 John Martin’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
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#ArmisticeDay.
Remembering #WW1 #Heroes with #Local names, and their importance as founders of #Nelson because these names still exist here today.
#RAF Air Mechanic 3rd Class, Pvt Harold Speak (24), died of pneumonia.
They were attacked from all fronts.
nelsonwarheroes.co.uk
Remembering #WW1 #Heroes with #Local names, and their importance as founders of #Nelson because these names still exist here today.
#RAF Air Mechanic 3rd Class, Pvt Harold Speak (24), died of pneumonia.
They were attacked from all fronts.
nelsonwarheroes.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
#ArmisticeDay.
Remembering #WW1 #Heroes with #Local names, and their importance as founders of #Nelson because these names still exist here today.
#RAF Air Mechanic 3rd Class, Pvt Harold Speak (24), died of pneumonia.
They were attacked from all fronts.
nelsonwarheroes.co.uk
Remembering #WW1 #Heroes with #Local names, and their importance as founders of #Nelson because these names still exist here today.
#RAF Air Mechanic 3rd Class, Pvt Harold Speak (24), died of pneumonia.
They were attacked from all fronts.
nelsonwarheroes.co.uk
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During WWI, The ecclesiastical publishers Mowbrays produced a pro-forma for parishes to record the boys who wouldn't come back. Most were added to as the War progressed, though this one at Bruisyard, Suffolk, seems to have been filled in at the end of the War. #ArmisticeDay
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
During WWI, The ecclesiastical publishers Mowbrays produced a pro-forma for parishes to record the boys who wouldn't come back. Most were added to as the War progressed, though this one at Bruisyard, Suffolk, seems to have been filled in at the end of the War. #ArmisticeDay
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The fascinating Newdigate House, Castle Gate, Nottingham which dates from circa 1675. Early Renaissance design with stucco with ashlar dressings & hipped slate roof. It was built for Thomas the younger, of Chilwell. Its most interesting resident was Camille d'Hostun, /1
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The fascinating Newdigate House, Castle Gate, Nottingham which dates from circa 1675. Early Renaissance design with stucco with ashlar dressings & hipped slate roof. It was built for Thomas the younger, of Chilwell. Its most interesting resident was Camille d'Hostun, /1
If you missed our October #OnePlaceStudies webinar—or if you want to watch it again—a link to the recording is now available in the Members’ Area of our website.
Access to recordings of many past webinars and conference presentations is one of the benefits of Society membership, a bargain at £10!
Access to recordings of many past webinars and conference presentations is one of the benefits of Society membership, a bargain at £10!
Our next webinar for Society for #OnePlaceStudies members takes place on Tuesday next week, October 14th, when Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social will share Tales of Rutherglen Cemetery.
If you’re quick, I think there’s still time to join up and join in!
If you’re quick, I think there’s still time to join up and join in!
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you missed our October #OnePlaceStudies webinar—or if you want to watch it again—a link to the recording is now available in the Members’ Area of our website.
Access to recordings of many past webinars and conference presentations is one of the benefits of Society membership, a bargain at £10!
Access to recordings of many past webinars and conference presentations is one of the benefits of Society membership, a bargain at £10!
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‘Tommy Light the conjuror’ features in the #OnePlaceStudy blog post I published in October 2024, to tie in with the @oneplacestudies.bsky.social prompt #OnePlaceFolklore. His obituary noted that “he continued to practice [conjuring] with considerable pecuniary advantage to the close of his days.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
‘Tommy Light the conjuror’ features in the #OnePlaceStudy blog post I published in October 2024, to tie in with the @oneplacestudies.bsky.social prompt #OnePlaceFolklore. His obituary noted that “he continued to practice [conjuring] with considerable pecuniary advantage to the close of his days.”
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The Defence of Dartmouth 🏰
Initially built to defend the town’s harbour, Dartmouth Castle offered a strong defence against any assaults from the sea, but the English Civil Wars were to prove its undoing.
📷: Jane Harrad-Roberts
Initially built to defend the town’s harbour, Dartmouth Castle offered a strong defence against any assaults from the sea, but the English Civil Wars were to prove its undoing.
📷: Jane Harrad-Roberts
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The Defence of Dartmouth 🏰
Initially built to defend the town’s harbour, Dartmouth Castle offered a strong defence against any assaults from the sea, but the English Civil Wars were to prove its undoing.
📷: Jane Harrad-Roberts
Initially built to defend the town’s harbour, Dartmouth Castle offered a strong defence against any assaults from the sea, but the English Civil Wars were to prove its undoing.
📷: Jane Harrad-Roberts
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Three of the four individuals I have written blogs about in my #OnePlaceStudy at www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk/blog all lived in St. John's Square at the same time from around 1909 to 1913.
I wonder if they spoke to each other, knew each other & even attended social events together. /1
I wonder if they spoke to each other, knew each other & even attended social events together. /1
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Three of the four individuals I have written blogs about in my #OnePlaceStudy at www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk/blog all lived in St. John's Square at the same time from around 1909 to 1913.
I wonder if they spoke to each other, knew each other & even attended social events together. /1
I wonder if they spoke to each other, knew each other & even attended social events together. /1
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No 7 Moray Place, home of Mike & Hilary Stanger, fundamental to the founding of The Strathbungo Society in the early 1970s.
Numbers 7 and 8 Moray Place on the Southside of Glasgow. Built in 1859, they were designed by the one and only Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, and they are just pure class.
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#glasgow #architecture #classicalarchitecture #alexandergreekthomson
#morayplace #architecturephotography
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#glasgow #architecture #classicalarchitecture #alexandergreekthomson
#morayplace #architecturephotography
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
No 7 Moray Place, home of Mike & Hilary Stanger, fundamental to the founding of The Strathbungo Society in the early 1970s.
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Join APG on 10 December 2025 for a FREE webinar featuring experts from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Presenters will discuss archival tragedy, reconstruction, and the many genealogical resources available on the free research platform. Sign up at www.apgen.org/news_manager...
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join APG on 10 December 2025 for a FREE webinar featuring experts from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Presenters will discuss archival tragedy, reconstruction, and the many genealogical resources available on the free research platform. Sign up at www.apgen.org/news_manager...
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This beautiful bridge in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, dates to the 1420’s. It was damaged by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads during the Civil War, hence the differing shapes of the arches - the pointed ones are original and the round ones are earlier 18th century rebuilds.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This beautiful bridge in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, dates to the 1420’s. It was damaged by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads during the Civil War, hence the differing shapes of the arches - the pointed ones are original and the round ones are earlier 18th century rebuilds.
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North of Liverpool is a two-mile stretch of beach where rubble from the bombing during the Second World War was dumped.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
North of Liverpool is a two-mile stretch of beach where rubble from the bombing during the Second World War was dumped.
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Use our events listing page to find out about #FamilyHistory talks coming up near you. www.familyhistoryfederation.com/news-and-eve...
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Use our events listing page to find out about #FamilyHistory talks coming up near you. www.familyhistoryfederation.com/news-and-eve...
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It's #MapMonday !
This Post Office Circulation map from 1894 shows the principal mail routes and means of mail conveyance throughout Ireland.
It is from the collection 'Delivering the mail - how the Post Office worked', deposited in the DRI by An Post Museum & Archive: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....
This Post Office Circulation map from 1894 shows the principal mail routes and means of mail conveyance throughout Ireland.
It is from the collection 'Delivering the mail - how the Post Office worked', deposited in the DRI by An Post Museum & Archive: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It's #MapMonday !
This Post Office Circulation map from 1894 shows the principal mail routes and means of mail conveyance throughout Ireland.
It is from the collection 'Delivering the mail - how the Post Office worked', deposited in the DRI by An Post Museum & Archive: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....
This Post Office Circulation map from 1894 shows the principal mail routes and means of mail conveyance throughout Ireland.
It is from the collection 'Delivering the mail - how the Post Office worked', deposited in the DRI by An Post Museum & Archive: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....
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We've been adding more stories of Ulster linen workers #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #SocialHistory www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/bumper-...
Bumper Crop of Ulster Linen Workers now Online
Another eleven stories have been added to our website today. You can access them and the earlier stories in this category here. The women concerned are: Martha Barron, Sarah Ellen Beck, Mary Elizabeth...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We've been adding more stories of Ulster linen workers #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #SocialHistory www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/bumper-...
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The collapse in Martock churchyard gives us a chance to plug the *absolutely superb* @swheritagetrust.bsky.social Somerset Historic Environment Record which is an essential starting point for researching any physical element of Somerset's historic environment. It's one of the best there is. 🗃️
Somerset HER
www.somersetheritage.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The collapse in Martock churchyard gives us a chance to plug the *absolutely superb* @swheritagetrust.bsky.social Somerset Historic Environment Record which is an essential starting point for researching any physical element of Somerset's historic environment. It's one of the best there is. 🗃️
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Martock is a really interesting place - and the church especially so), we touch on some of that interest in our Somerset volume 4 (available @bho.bsky.social).
The vault and chest tomb reflect a period of concentrated prosperity for the village/townlet very obvious in its streetscape. [cont.]
The vault and chest tomb reflect a period of concentrated prosperity for the village/townlet very obvious in its streetscape. [cont.]
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Martock is a really interesting place - and the church especially so), we touch on some of that interest in our Somerset volume 4 (available @bho.bsky.social).
The vault and chest tomb reflect a period of concentrated prosperity for the village/townlet very obvious in its streetscape. [cont.]
The vault and chest tomb reflect a period of concentrated prosperity for the village/townlet very obvious in its streetscape. [cont.]
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Duchy Chamber pleadings for the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (DL 1/1-26) are now searchable to item level online. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Duchy Chamber pleadings for the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (DL 1/1-26) are now searchable to item level online. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...