Ann Roberts
@annroberts.bsky.social
Local history and research. Women’s history. Also architecture, art and heritage.
Devon based.
Devon based.
October 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Can anyone help with translation from Latin please?
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Can anyone help with translation from Latin please?
See this? Post a bridge.
September 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
See this? Post a bridge.
Heritage Open Day visit to chapel of old Exminster Asylum (now Exeter Pre-Prep School).
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit
September 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Heritage Open Day visit to chapel of old Exminster Asylum (now Exeter Pre-Prep School).
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit
Extraordinary sculpture by Jyll Bradley. Centrepiece of exhibition at The Box, Plymouth. As you circle the blues and violets remain in front of you while the warmer tones are furthest away caused by the different refractive index of the materials. Think rainbows or prisms.
Photo doesn’t do it credit
Photo doesn’t do it credit
August 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Extraordinary sculpture by Jyll Bradley. Centrepiece of exhibition at The Box, Plymouth. As you circle the blues and violets remain in front of you while the warmer tones are furthest away caused by the different refractive index of the materials. Think rainbows or prisms.
Photo doesn’t do it credit
Photo doesn’t do it credit
Evening primrose, bird’s foot trefoil, purple loosestrife and meadowsweet
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Evening primrose, bird’s foot trefoil, purple loosestrife and meadowsweet
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
Your rare and lovely thing looks to be in better condition than mine. On the other hand mine is signed by Bill Miller.
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Your rare and lovely thing looks to be in better condition than mine. On the other hand mine is signed by Bill Miller.
June 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Swallow babies waiting for their next feed.
June 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Swallow babies waiting for their next feed.
Mazawattee Tea ‘the cup that cheers but does not inebriate.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
May 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Mazawattee Tea ‘the cup that cheers but does not inebriate.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
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May 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Paternoster House, Exeter is being converted to apartments. Once home to Exeter’s first department store. Purpose built in 1880 for Brock’s furniture, furnishings, stationery, and books emporium. Removal of modern fascias has exposed the original rather lovely signage. Love it when that happens.
April 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Paternoster House, Exeter is being converted to apartments. Once home to Exeter’s first department store. Purpose built in 1880 for Brock’s furniture, furnishings, stationery, and books emporium. Removal of modern fascias has exposed the original rather lovely signage. Love it when that happens.
Costa Coffee AD1350
(I believe it used to be a pub)
(I believe it used to be a pub)
March 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Costa Coffee AD1350
(I believe it used to be a pub)
(I believe it used to be a pub)
Snowdrops in the rain.
Huccaby, Dartmoor.
Huccaby, Dartmoor.
February 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Snowdrops in the rain.
Huccaby, Dartmoor.
Huccaby, Dartmoor.
Fantastic evening yesterday with Lee Rawlings (@montagfire.bsky.social ) performing a dramatic reading of EM Forster’s short story The Machine Stops. Incredible story for our time but written in 1905. Prescient and quite scary.
February 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Fantastic evening yesterday with Lee Rawlings (@montagfire.bsky.social ) performing a dramatic reading of EM Forster’s short story The Machine Stops. Incredible story for our time but written in 1905. Prescient and quite scary.
Detail from a window by his daughter Veronica Whall at St Mary’s, Berry Pomeroy.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
February 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Detail from a window by his daughter Veronica Whall at St Mary’s, Berry Pomeroy.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
National Trust bookshop came up trumps again.
Reading material to accompany refreshments in the cafe.
@nationaltrust.bsky.social #Killerton
Reading material to accompany refreshments in the cafe.
@nationaltrust.bsky.social #Killerton
February 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
National Trust bookshop came up trumps again.
Reading material to accompany refreshments in the cafe.
@nationaltrust.bsky.social #Killerton
Reading material to accompany refreshments in the cafe.
@nationaltrust.bsky.social #Killerton
Wonderful aren’t they? Here’s mine in Devon this morning with a bonus witch-hazel.
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Wonderful aren’t they? Here’s mine in Devon this morning with a bonus witch-hazel.
The Snark moored up at Exeter Canal Basin.
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Snark moored up at Exeter Canal Basin.
Here’s the baby. Also very moving.
3/3
3/3
January 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here’s the baby. Also very moving.
3/3
3/3
Here’s a picture of the full monument.
Lord Edward Seymour, d 1593
Sir Edward Seymour, d 1613
Elizabeth Seymour nee Champernowne
5 named sons,
4 named daughters,
unnamed baby in crib
unnamed seated child.
2/3
Lord Edward Seymour, d 1593
Sir Edward Seymour, d 1613
Elizabeth Seymour nee Champernowne
5 named sons,
4 named daughters,
unnamed baby in crib
unnamed seated child.
2/3
January 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here’s a picture of the full monument.
Lord Edward Seymour, d 1593
Sir Edward Seymour, d 1613
Elizabeth Seymour nee Champernowne
5 named sons,
4 named daughters,
unnamed baby in crib
unnamed seated child.
2/3
Lord Edward Seymour, d 1593
Sir Edward Seymour, d 1613
Elizabeth Seymour nee Champernowne
5 named sons,
4 named daughters,
unnamed baby in crib
unnamed seated child.
2/3
I found this so moving.
An effigy which appears to depict a child with Downs Syndrome.
One of the 11 children of Edward Seymour and his wife Elizabeth Champernowne on their memorial. No name for this child sadly and referred to as [shudders] “imbecile child”.
St Mary the Virgin, Berry Pomeroy
1/3
An effigy which appears to depict a child with Downs Syndrome.
One of the 11 children of Edward Seymour and his wife Elizabeth Champernowne on their memorial. No name for this child sadly and referred to as [shudders] “imbecile child”.
St Mary the Virgin, Berry Pomeroy
1/3
January 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I found this so moving.
An effigy which appears to depict a child with Downs Syndrome.
One of the 11 children of Edward Seymour and his wife Elizabeth Champernowne on their memorial. No name for this child sadly and referred to as [shudders] “imbecile child”.
St Mary the Virgin, Berry Pomeroy
1/3
An effigy which appears to depict a child with Downs Syndrome.
One of the 11 children of Edward Seymour and his wife Elizabeth Champernowne on their memorial. No name for this child sadly and referred to as [shudders] “imbecile child”.
St Mary the Virgin, Berry Pomeroy
1/3
My favourite from your Halifax papers (admittedly I haven’t read many!) is this from Lady Agnes Courtenay to her brother Baldwin:-
“Mr Wood has asked me to be his wife and that I am very happy.”
“Mr Wood has asked me to be his wife and that I am very happy.”
January 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My favourite from your Halifax papers (admittedly I haven’t read many!) is this from Lady Agnes Courtenay to her brother Baldwin:-
“Mr Wood has asked me to be his wife and that I am very happy.”
“Mr Wood has asked me to be his wife and that I am very happy.”
#mydayinfourpictures
1 Dawn
2 Article writing
3 Afternoon walk
4 Churchyard recording
How did your day go?
1 Dawn
2 Article writing
3 Afternoon walk
4 Churchyard recording
How did your day go?
January 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#mydayinfourpictures
1 Dawn
2 Article writing
3 Afternoon walk
4 Churchyard recording
How did your day go?
1 Dawn
2 Article writing
3 Afternoon walk
4 Churchyard recording
How did your day go?