@pocketfulofstories.bsky.social
Keeper of lost things. Returner of lost books to their families or archives 📚History and book hound. Writes poems sometimes. Maid of Kent. Never stop being curious.
Hello fountain pen hounds, can I introduce you to someone from my family’s history? This is W E Wiley - in the 1850’s he invented a better method of slitting gold pen nibs, thus reducing their cost, so more people could buy them, from a guinea to 5 shillings- he’s a bit of a hero of mine 🖋️ ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Hello fountain pen hounds, can I introduce you to someone from my family’s history? This is W E Wiley - in the 1850’s he invented a better method of slitting gold pen nibs, thus reducing their cost, so more people could buy them, from a guinea to 5 shillings- he’s a bit of a hero of mine 🖋️ ❤️
As Remembrance Sunday approaches I notice I’m looking at them again as I go down the stairs…
Post an old photo in your possession & say why you like it. This photo hangs on our landing, the Cambridge University Golf Blues in 1913. My husband’s gfather is 3rd from the left. He’s 22. What sense did they have of what was to come? On the back I recorded what happened to them all/1
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
As Remembrance Sunday approaches I notice I’m looking at them again as I go down the stairs…
The amazing brigade of knitters/crochet enthusiasts in the UK who produce what we call ‘Post box toppers’ are turning their craft into an Olympic sport here…..❤️
August 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The amazing brigade of knitters/crochet enthusiasts in the UK who produce what we call ‘Post box toppers’ are turning their craft into an Olympic sport here…..❤️
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'The Reader.' (1885) Ferdinand Hodler was the star of late-19thC Swiss art. His respect for elderly men led him to use as sitters those who frequented the café near his Geneva home. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement: 'they confided in me, and I listened to them while they posed.'
August 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
'The Reader.' (1885) Ferdinand Hodler was the star of late-19thC Swiss art. His respect for elderly men led him to use as sitters those who frequented the café near his Geneva home. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement: 'they confided in me, and I listened to them while they posed.'
‘May books never die’ ❤️ www.facebook.com/share/v/16Nt...
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May 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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We’re celebrating our relationship with our historic building and how we managed to save it, all those years ago (with a little help from our friends ❤️) so it continues its original purpose of supporting our local communities. Here’s to the next 10….
April 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
We’re celebrating our relationship with our historic building and how we managed to save it, all those years ago (with a little help from our friends ❤️) so it continues its original purpose of supporting our local communities. Here’s to the next 10….
‘God knows what’s hiding in this world of little consequence
Behind the tears inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts..
People help the people’
Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S...
A song for our times ❤️
Behind the tears inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts..
People help the people’
Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S...
A song for our times ❤️
April 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
‘God knows what’s hiding in this world of little consequence
Behind the tears inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts..
People help the people’
Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S...
A song for our times ❤️
Behind the tears inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts..
People help the people’
Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S...
A song for our times ❤️
Happy Mothering Sunday. Here’s me on my Great Grandmother’s knee with my grandmother & my mother, on the right my mother sits on her Great Grandmother’s knee with her Grandmother & mother - my unbroken thread of mother’s love thru poverty, two wars , Depression & the Spanish Flu ❤️ #motheringsunday
March 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Happy Mothering Sunday. Here’s me on my Great Grandmother’s knee with my grandmother & my mother, on the right my mother sits on her Great Grandmother’s knee with her Grandmother & mother - my unbroken thread of mother’s love thru poverty, two wars , Depression & the Spanish Flu ❤️ #motheringsunday
Slava Ukraini ❤️
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Slava Ukraini ❤️
Slightly amazed to discover, I know not how, a book that belonged to Ralph Hart Tweddell, the inventor of the portable riveter, which had a big impact on ship building and other industries…’The Arts and Industry of All Nations’ 1860 quite a book and quite a man #engineers 💙 📚
January 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Slightly amazed to discover, I know not how, a book that belonged to Ralph Hart Tweddell, the inventor of the portable riveter, which had a big impact on ship building and other industries…’The Arts and Industry of All Nations’ 1860 quite a book and quite a man #engineers 💙 📚
Looking forward to starting this jigsaw from the Bodleian Library….🧩🧩💙📚
January 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Looking forward to starting this jigsaw from the Bodleian Library….🧩🧩💙📚
Post an old photo in your possession & say why you like it. This photo hangs on our landing, the Cambridge University Golf Blues in 1913. My husband’s gfather is 3rd from the left. He’s 22. What sense did they have of what was to come? On the back I recorded what happened to them all/1
January 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Post an old photo in your possession & say why you like it. This photo hangs on our landing, the Cambridge University Golf Blues in 1913. My husband’s gfather is 3rd from the left. He’s 22. What sense did they have of what was to come? On the back I recorded what happened to them all/1
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Splendid works by Hungarian art nouveau mosaicist/glass artist Miksa Róth (early 1900s) www.facebook.com/rothmiksamoz...
January 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Splendid works by Hungarian art nouveau mosaicist/glass artist Miksa Róth (early 1900s) www.facebook.com/rothmiksamoz...
How exactly do you live with 80 minutes of memory? This book is a thing of beauty…the Professor believes in the beauty of miscalculation for teaching you as much as getting it right ❤️#booksky 💙📚
January 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
How exactly do you live with 80 minutes of memory? This book is a thing of beauty…the Professor believes in the beauty of miscalculation for teaching you as much as getting it right ❤️#booksky 💙📚
Post an old photo in your possession and say what you like about it….this feels like that moment of stillness, just before the noise of the Great War. These unknown members of my family, gliding gracefully towards disaster #Birdsong #oldphotoalbum
January 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Post an old photo in your possession and say what you like about it….this feels like that moment of stillness, just before the noise of the Great War. These unknown members of my family, gliding gracefully towards disaster #Birdsong #oldphotoalbum
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It's incredible how such small books has had such a huge impact on literature & love of reading. I have always adored Beatrix Potter's tales. Which one is your favorite?
January 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's incredible how such small books has had such a huge impact on literature & love of reading. I have always adored Beatrix Potter's tales. Which one is your favorite?
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This little book, 169 years old, belonged to my great, great, great grandfather, George Purser, who signs it when he is 13 years old. His father, James, works as a Beadle at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, (900 years old in 2023) - there have been beadles at the hospital since the 1500’s. /1
December 14, 2024 at 4:17 PM
This little book, 169 years old, belonged to my great, great, great grandfather, George Purser, who signs it when he is 13 years old. His father, James, works as a Beadle at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, (900 years old in 2023) - there have been beadles at the hospital since the 1500’s. /1
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The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
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This year more than 20% of the enquiries we received were from people researching their family history. They've used our parish records, hospital admission and discharge registers, and nurse training records to track their ancestors
#ArchivesAdventCalendar #Family #Geneaology
#ArchivesAdventCalendar #Family #Geneaology
December 21, 2024 at 12:39 PM
This year more than 20% of the enquiries we received were from people researching their family history. They've used our parish records, hospital admission and discharge registers, and nurse training records to track their ancestors
#ArchivesAdventCalendar #Family #Geneaology
#ArchivesAdventCalendar #Family #Geneaology
Post an old photo in your possession & say what you like about it….This little chap is unknown but part of my Birmingham family history. He lives on the mantelpiece, he’s so proud of his outfit. It was taken by HJ Whitlock, famous photographers of the Royal Family c1830’s #geneaology #oldphotoalbum
January 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Post an old photo in your possession & say what you like about it….This little chap is unknown but part of my Birmingham family history. He lives on the mantelpiece, he’s so proud of his outfit. It was taken by HJ Whitlock, famous photographers of the Royal Family c1830’s #geneaology #oldphotoalbum
Here’s my Bobbin Robin he sings to me every morning for suet pellets ❤️
January 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Here’s my Bobbin Robin he sings to me every morning for suet pellets ❤️
Post a photo in your possession & say what you like about it. My mother, in the garden of the family home in Camberwell.l, South London. Whenever she passed this photo she’d tap the glass & say ‘We always had shoes’. I like it because in spite of grinding poverty she’s laughing ❤️ #oldphotoalbum
January 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Post a photo in your possession & say what you like about it. My mother, in the garden of the family home in Camberwell.l, South London. Whenever she passed this photo she’d tap the glass & say ‘We always had shoes’. I like it because in spite of grinding poverty she’s laughing ❤️ #oldphotoalbum