Based In Churton
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Londoner living in Churton, exploring the area and blogging about heritage, visits, walks, food and anything else that makes me smile.
If you are in the Wrexham area before 24th Jan, the Ty Pawb gallery has the final weeks of its annual exhibition of prints, a light, bright anecdote to grey winter clouds. Imaginative and very varied. Well worth a visit. More on my blog at wp.me/pcZwQK-8RR
January 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
If you are in the Wrexham area before 24th Jan, the Ty Pawb gallery has the final weeks of its annual exhibition of prints, a light, bright anecdote to grey winter clouds. Imaginative and very varied. Well worth a visit. More on my blog at wp.me/pcZwQK-8RR
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More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
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Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
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Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
January 7, 2026 at 9:31 AM
More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
Snow is always a bit of a novelty, and looks stunning against a blue sky, so today I went for a brisk circular walk starting from Churton's White Horse to Aldford's Grosvenor pub and back, both villages south of Chester, snapping pics as I went. Many more pics and a map on the blog: wp.me/pcZwQK-8Qr
January 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Snow is always a bit of a novelty, and looks stunning against a blue sky, so today I went for a brisk circular walk starting from Churton's White Horse to Aldford's Grosvenor pub and back, both villages south of Chester, snapping pics as I went. Many more pics and a map on the blog: wp.me/pcZwQK-8Qr
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Keith Vaughan was as much a painter of landscapes as he was of the figure, this 1951 painting of a Welsh industrial landscape demonstrates his early work very well. Still under the influence of Graham Sutherland, nethertheless he makes the subject his own.
January 2, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Keith Vaughan was as much a painter of landscapes as he was of the figure, this 1951 painting of a Welsh industrial landscape demonstrates his early work very well. Still under the influence of Graham Sutherland, nethertheless he makes the subject his own.
A visit to the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, in December was full of surprises. It opened in 1928 and combines permanent and temporary displays, all on one floor, mainly a mixture of 18th-19th/early 20th century work and contemporary arts. More with pics on my blog: wp.me/pcZwQK-8NV
January 3, 2026 at 10:31 PM
A visit to the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, in December was full of surprises. It opened in 1928 and combines permanent and temporary displays, all on one floor, mainly a mixture of 18th-19th/early 20th century work and contemporary arts. More with pics on my blog: wp.me/pcZwQK-8NV
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We are delighted to publish our December 2025 newsletter, reviewing the Society's Autumn activities and looking forward to next year.
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December 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We are delighted to publish our December 2025 newsletter, reviewing the Society's Autumn activities and looking forward to next year.
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Plan of the nunnery by Simon Ward, showing how the site was adapted to form the town house of the Brereton family. The arches shown in the Buck view are highlighted in red.
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Plan of the nunnery by Simon Ward, showing how the site was adapted to form the town house of the Brereton family. The arches shown in the Buck view are highlighted in red.
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Engraving by Buck of the surviving arches of the nunnery in 1727.
December 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Engraving by Buck of the surviving arches of the nunnery in 1727.
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For Christmas it is worth recalling the 15th-cent Carol of the Nuns of St Mary's, Chester, 'Qui Creavit Coelum' ('He who made Heaven') (archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/ar...) with a modern performance at Chester Cathedral google.com/search?q=son....
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
For Christmas it is worth recalling the 15th-cent Carol of the Nuns of St Mary's, Chester, 'Qui Creavit Coelum' ('He who made Heaven') (archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/ar...) with a modern performance at Chester Cathedral google.com/search?q=son....
St Winefride's Well in Holywell is a surprising duplex. The sublime fan-vaulted lower chapel with sculpted ceiling bosses contains the well and is like a tiny corner of a fine cathedral. The upper chapel is more conventional but with very fine features. My visit last week with pics: wp.me/pcZwQK-8H4
December 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
St Winefride's Well in Holywell is a surprising duplex. The sublime fan-vaulted lower chapel with sculpted ceiling bosses contains the well and is like a tiny corner of a fine cathedral. The upper chapel is more conventional but with very fine features. My visit last week with pics: wp.me/pcZwQK-8H4
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If you'd like to learn more about the history and architecture of the church, then please follow this link to our website:
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St Deiniol's, Worthenbury, Wrexham
With its finely-jointed brickwork, sandstone dressings and Classical proportions, St Deiniol's is a picture of stately elegance. The interior is sumptuous arrangement of decorative plasterwork,…
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December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you'd like to learn more about the history and architecture of the church, then please follow this link to our website:
friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/church/st-de...
friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/church/st-de...
A fascinating object history from St Deiniol's Church in Worthenbury. I went to see it with my dad in Jan 2023, with thanks to Catherine Starkey for opening it for us at at time when it was hoping that Friends of Friendless Churches would take it on. Some photos etc on my blog at wp.me/pcZwQK-3pf
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A fascinating object history from St Deiniol's Church in Worthenbury. I went to see it with my dad in Jan 2023, with thanks to Catherine Starkey for opening it for us at at time when it was hoping that Friends of Friendless Churches would take it on. Some photos etc on my blog at wp.me/pcZwQK-3pf
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Beneath the #Wiltshire Medieval hilltop town of Malmesbury lies a 9ha Iron Age hillfort
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Beneath the #Wiltshire Medieval hilltop town of Malmesbury lies a 9ha Iron Age hillfort
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
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Absolutely stunning 😍
For today's #hillfortswednesday: A clip of a superb #Welsh hillfort. Tre'r Ceiri is located 450 metres above sea level, on an exposed peak of Yr Eifl on the Llŷn Peninsula in #Gwynedd . It is one of the best preserved & was one of the most densely populated hillforts in #Britain.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Absolutely stunning 😍
I was reminded recently of a favourite Samian bowl in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. As well as modern repairs it has Roman lead rivets to hold sections together, one in a long line of prehistoric and historic repairs indicating ongoing value after breakage. More on the blog: wp.me/pcZwQK-8Ef
Modern and Roman Repairs of a Samian Bowl in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester
A recent Bluesky post by Nina Willburger (drnwillburger.bsky.social) about a 1st century AD Samian ware vessel found in Ladenburg, Germany, repaired in antiquity with lead rivets, reminded me of on…
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December 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I was reminded recently of a favourite Samian bowl in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. As well as modern repairs it has Roman lead rivets to hold sections together, one in a long line of prehistoric and historic repairs indicating ongoing value after breakage. More on the blog: wp.me/pcZwQK-8Ef
If you enjoy combining a walk with an archaeological site I recommend the small Iron Age Maiden Castle hillfort on Bickerton Hill (Sandstone Trail), with visible twin ramparts and ditch, super views, and plenty of info available from excavations and surveys. Info on my blog at wp.me/pcZwQK-8Az
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If you enjoy combining a walk with an archaeological site I recommend the small Iron Age Maiden Castle hillfort on Bickerton Hill (Sandstone Trail), with visible twin ramparts and ditch, super views, and plenty of info available from excavations and surveys. Info on my blog at wp.me/pcZwQK-8Az
Last week I took advantage of the sunshine and blue skies to visit Bickerton Hill on the Sandstone Ridge. The late autumn sunshine was spectacular as it cut through the reds, copper-oranges and yellows, and put a golden spotlight on the bright greens of the plain below. Stunning wp.me/pcZwQK-8z6
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Last week I took advantage of the sunshine and blue skies to visit Bickerton Hill on the Sandstone Ridge. The late autumn sunshine was spectacular as it cut through the reds, copper-oranges and yellows, and put a golden spotlight on the bright greens of the plain below. Stunning wp.me/pcZwQK-8z6
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Unusual stained glass in St Chad's Church, Farndon, in #Cheshire, both for its date and subject matter. It was commissioned in about 1660 by #Royalist squire William Barnston to celebrate his success defending the city of Chester from #Parliamentarian forces in 1643-5.
#StainedGlassSunday #CivilWar
#StainedGlassSunday #CivilWar
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Unusual stained glass in St Chad's Church, Farndon, in #Cheshire, both for its date and subject matter. It was commissioned in about 1660 by #Royalist squire William Barnston to celebrate his success defending the city of Chester from #Parliamentarian forces in 1643-5.
#StainedGlassSunday #CivilWar
#StainedGlassSunday #CivilWar
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The site has information boards identifying the monuments and providing a brief description. The monuments lie within the saddle or dip between Moel Llanfair and Moel Y Plas these summits are part of the Clwydian Range 📷 TAlanJones More: http://www.megalithi...
Llanarmon Yn Lal Burial Mounds
Round Barrow(s) in Denbighshire, Wales
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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The site has information boards identifying the monuments and providing a brief description. The monuments lie within the saddle or dip between Moel Llanfair and Moel Y Plas these summits are part of the Clwydian Range 📷 TAlanJones More: http://www.megalithi...
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CAS members - check your emails. Last meeting of the year 10 Dec 7:30pm at the Grosvenor Museum. Clare Dudman talking about the making of her film Three Ravens. Email Pauline Clarke excursions@chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk so we can order refreshments!
Non-members welcome! - £5.
Non-members welcome! - £5.
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
CAS members - check your emails. Last meeting of the year 10 Dec 7:30pm at the Grosvenor Museum. Clare Dudman talking about the making of her film Three Ravens. Email Pauline Clarke excursions@chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk so we can order refreshments!
Non-members welcome! - £5.
Non-members welcome! - £5.
The tiny St Edith's Church in Shocklach near Farndon has a number of great features, inc. a splendid Norman arch in the south wall, a single grotesque on the north wall, and a double bellcote. Only open for services and special occasions but well worth a visit if you're in the area: wp.me/pcZwQK-2NQ
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The tiny St Edith's Church in Shocklach near Farndon has a number of great features, inc. a splendid Norman arch in the south wall, a single grotesque on the north wall, and a double bellcote. Only open for services and special occasions but well worth a visit if you're in the area: wp.me/pcZwQK-2NQ
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Fingers crossed we shall be offering a walking tour of the Rows as part of #Rowvember that explains the Rows as a system and looks at the development of some individual buildings, eg 38 Watergate St ('Katie's Tea Rooms).
Watch this space!
Watch this space!
October 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Fingers crossed we shall be offering a walking tour of the Rows as part of #Rowvember that explains the Rows as a system and looks at the development of some individual buildings, eg 38 Watergate St ('Katie's Tea Rooms).
Watch this space!
Watch this space!
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Folklore conservation in action! Absolutely loved learning about this campaign!
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People submit Welsh placenames to protect linguistic heritage
Entries include Welsh language names for fields and hills in move to ensure preservation of stories and legends
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October 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Folklore conservation in action! Absolutely loved learning about this campaign!
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For those who missed it and those who want to hear it again, we are delighted to say that the recording of Glynn Davis's talk on the Colchester Vase is now available on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRX....
October 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
For those who missed it and those who want to hear it again, we are delighted to say that the recording of Glynn Davis's talk on the Colchester Vase is now available on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRX....
The design at the bottom is lovely. The Grosvenor's guide says that the final :S:E (he is laid), a short version of H:S:E (he is laid here), meaning that the body was lost to the sea, so it is a memorial rather than a gravestone. The word for a shipwrecked man, naufrago, remains the same in Spanish.
The lower part of a tombstone from Roman Chester (Deva). While the name does not survive, the inscription details that the individual was an optio in the Roman army who died by shipwreck. Now part of the collections at the Grosvenor Museum in Chester. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The design at the bottom is lovely. The Grosvenor's guide says that the final :S:E (he is laid), a short version of H:S:E (he is laid here), meaning that the body was lost to the sea, so it is a memorial rather than a gravestone. The word for a shipwrecked man, naufrago, remains the same in Spanish.