My school summer dress was pretty similar to yours! But it had a long zip at the front which had to be secured at the top with a safety pin because of annoying boys #schooldays

This is what it looks like

My Mum seen here on holiday in Blackpool in the early 1950s

#MothersDay #genealogy

Here is some cognitive dissonance in return "This Box is Green" is on the other side but was too distracting so I swapped it round for the French version which is slightly less so possibly as I can choose to translate or not

And while we are at the guess the decade a slightly easier one for car (van) historians

Post you from a different era

(or in my case century) I will leave you to guess the decade 😉

This wall art on an electricity power substation building near the river in #Leamington Spa is a nod to local folklore about where the elephants were washed

#OnePlaceWednesday

leamingtonhistory.co.uk/sam-lockhart...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,793,086! Thanks to @danielloftus.bsky.social 😉

Checking my ScotlandsPeople timeline images has been a depressing affair - so much that I overlooked in my very early 20+ years ago research when I relied heavily on others' trees. #Genchat #genealogy

At this stage of my researches into #familyhistory I have gone into slow and steady mode looking at what is hidden beneath the surface Looking carefully at documents for hidden relationship clues such as witnesses to marriages or next door neighbours in the census And checking my early assumptions