Gillian W Roberts
@gwroberts.bsky.social
Archivist. Building Historian.
Records ancient and modern.
Posting on archives, architecture, archaeology & art.
Arts & Crafts. Vernacular.
Draw, sing, write, knit.
Dysgu Cymraeg.
Owner of a lazy dog.
Records ancient and modern.
Posting on archives, architecture, archaeology & art.
Arts & Crafts. Vernacular.
Draw, sing, write, knit.
Dysgu Cymraeg.
Owner of a lazy dog.
Tai Peilot, Llanddwyn
A row of C19th pilots’ houses built to serve the now-defunct lifeboat station that ran 1826-1907.
The Tŵr Mawr conical lighthouse tower (35 feet) built by Caernarfon Harbour Trustees, 1824.
A row of C19th pilots’ houses built to serve the now-defunct lifeboat station that ran 1826-1907.
The Tŵr Mawr conical lighthouse tower (35 feet) built by Caernarfon Harbour Trustees, 1824.
April 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Tai Peilot, Llanddwyn
A row of C19th pilots’ houses built to serve the now-defunct lifeboat station that ran 1826-1907.
The Tŵr Mawr conical lighthouse tower (35 feet) built by Caernarfon Harbour Trustees, 1824.
A row of C19th pilots’ houses built to serve the now-defunct lifeboat station that ran 1826-1907.
The Tŵr Mawr conical lighthouse tower (35 feet) built by Caernarfon Harbour Trustees, 1824.
St Dwynwen’s Church, Llanddwyn, Ynys Môn.
A spectacular day for views down the Llŷn.
The remains of a C16th chancel, casement-moulded windows within a circular llan.
Patron saint of lovers, 25 Jan
Believed dd. 465, she prayed to live unmarried after her affair with Maelon Dyfrodill turned sour.
A spectacular day for views down the Llŷn.
The remains of a C16th chancel, casement-moulded windows within a circular llan.
Patron saint of lovers, 25 Jan
Believed dd. 465, she prayed to live unmarried after her affair with Maelon Dyfrodill turned sour.
April 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
St Dwynwen’s Church, Llanddwyn, Ynys Môn.
A spectacular day for views down the Llŷn.
The remains of a C16th chancel, casement-moulded windows within a circular llan.
Patron saint of lovers, 25 Jan
Believed dd. 465, she prayed to live unmarried after her affair with Maelon Dyfrodill turned sour.
A spectacular day for views down the Llŷn.
The remains of a C16th chancel, casement-moulded windows within a circular llan.
Patron saint of lovers, 25 Jan
Believed dd. 465, she prayed to live unmarried after her affair with Maelon Dyfrodill turned sour.
Pen-rhiw Chapel @Saint Fagan’s
Unitarian church (1777)Dre-Fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire. - area known as Y Smotyn Du - the black spot, by denominations suspicious of the reforming,egalitarian faith.
Iorwerth C Peate (1901-1982) St Fagans first curator is buried in the grounds.
Unitarian church (1777)Dre-Fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire. - area known as Y Smotyn Du - the black spot, by denominations suspicious of the reforming,egalitarian faith.
Iorwerth C Peate (1901-1982) St Fagans first curator is buried in the grounds.
March 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Pen-rhiw Chapel @Saint Fagan’s
Unitarian church (1777)Dre-Fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire. - area known as Y Smotyn Du - the black spot, by denominations suspicious of the reforming,egalitarian faith.
Iorwerth C Peate (1901-1982) St Fagans first curator is buried in the grounds.
Unitarian church (1777)Dre-Fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire. - area known as Y Smotyn Du - the black spot, by denominations suspicious of the reforming,egalitarian faith.
Iorwerth C Peate (1901-1982) St Fagans first curator is buried in the grounds.
A Victorian Society recce around Walsall
March 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A Victorian Society recce around Walsall
Traeth Llanulltyd Fawr, Dydd Sul
Beach Llantwit Major
Sunday
Beach Llantwit Major
Sunday
March 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Traeth Llanulltyd Fawr, Dydd Sul
Beach Llantwit Major
Sunday
Beach Llantwit Major
Sunday
Kennixton farmhouse, Saint Fagans.
Welsh vernacular architecture: floor is lime mortar beaten with crushed seashells, bedrooms with rare straw-rope under thatching, a beautiful scissor brace in the principal room.
This house is well-loved: the banked cegin fire make it also feel well-lived.
Welsh vernacular architecture: floor is lime mortar beaten with crushed seashells, bedrooms with rare straw-rope under thatching, a beautiful scissor brace in the principal room.
This house is well-loved: the banked cegin fire make it also feel well-lived.
March 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Kennixton farmhouse, Saint Fagans.
Welsh vernacular architecture: floor is lime mortar beaten with crushed seashells, bedrooms with rare straw-rope under thatching, a beautiful scissor brace in the principal room.
This house is well-loved: the banked cegin fire make it also feel well-lived.
Welsh vernacular architecture: floor is lime mortar beaten with crushed seashells, bedrooms with rare straw-rope under thatching, a beautiful scissor brace in the principal room.
This house is well-loved: the banked cegin fire make it also feel well-lived.
Nadolig Llawen pawb
Merry Christmas everyone
Christmas isn’t Christmas without trifle!
Merry Christmas everyone
Christmas isn’t Christmas without trifle!
December 27, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Nadolig Llawen pawb
Merry Christmas everyone
Christmas isn’t Christmas without trifle!
Merry Christmas everyone
Christmas isn’t Christmas without trifle!
Old St Chads, Shrewsbury GII*
The chancel C12 also C15 Lady Chapel altered in the C16 & C17, largely demolished 1788 when church bells fatally shook the weakened fabric.
A spectacular opportunity for Thomas Telford as County Surveyor to say ‘I told you so’
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
The chancel C12 also C15 Lady Chapel altered in the C16 & C17, largely demolished 1788 when church bells fatally shook the weakened fabric.
A spectacular opportunity for Thomas Telford as County Surveyor to say ‘I told you so’
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
December 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Old St Chads, Shrewsbury GII*
The chancel C12 also C15 Lady Chapel altered in the C16 & C17, largely demolished 1788 when church bells fatally shook the weakened fabric.
A spectacular opportunity for Thomas Telford as County Surveyor to say ‘I told you so’
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
The chancel C12 also C15 Lady Chapel altered in the C16 & C17, largely demolished 1788 when church bells fatally shook the weakened fabric.
A spectacular opportunity for Thomas Telford as County Surveyor to say ‘I told you so’
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
When Patrick Heron met Mark Rothko.
The Wilson, Cheltenham
The Wilson, Cheltenham
December 18, 2024 at 11:44 PM
When Patrick Heron met Mark Rothko.
The Wilson, Cheltenham
The Wilson, Cheltenham
Love a semi-hidden jetty!
December 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Love a semi-hidden jetty!
WAS Benson models as Pygmalion in The Hand Refrains (1875-78) by Edward Byrne Jones, in Victorian Radicals: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
WAS Benson designed cabinet Orpheus and the lyre (1889) by Heywood Sumner: Arts and Crafts gallery, The Wilson Cheltenham.
WAS Benson designed cabinet Orpheus and the lyre (1889) by Heywood Sumner: Arts and Crafts gallery, The Wilson Cheltenham.
December 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM
WAS Benson models as Pygmalion in The Hand Refrains (1875-78) by Edward Byrne Jones, in Victorian Radicals: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
WAS Benson designed cabinet Orpheus and the lyre (1889) by Heywood Sumner: Arts and Crafts gallery, The Wilson Cheltenham.
WAS Benson designed cabinet Orpheus and the lyre (1889) by Heywood Sumner: Arts and Crafts gallery, The Wilson Cheltenham.
Castlerigg stone circle, Lake District
Beautiful, atmospheric site.
Neolithic c3000 BCE overlooking Thirlmere Valley within the peaks of Helvellyn
#stonecirclesunday
December 8, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Castlerigg stone circle, Lake District
Beautiful, atmospheric site.
Neolithic c3000 BCE overlooking Thirlmere Valley within the peaks of Helvellyn
#stonecirclesunday
Sun and Fire: Life and Death at the dawn of history
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Experience life in Shropshire between 4500 and 2000 years ago. That’s roughly the time from 2500 BCE until the Romans invaded Britain in 43 CE.
www.shropshiremuseums.org.uk/event/sun-fi...
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Experience life in Shropshire between 4500 and 2000 years ago. That’s roughly the time from 2500 BCE until the Romans invaded Britain in 43 CE.
www.shropshiremuseums.org.uk/event/sun-fi...
November 21, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Sun and Fire: Life and Death at the dawn of history
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Experience life in Shropshire between 4500 and 2000 years ago. That’s roughly the time from 2500 BCE until the Romans invaded Britain in 43 CE.
www.shropshiremuseums.org.uk/event/sun-fi...
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Experience life in Shropshire between 4500 and 2000 years ago. That’s roughly the time from 2500 BCE until the Romans invaded Britain in 43 CE.
www.shropshiremuseums.org.uk/event/sun-fi...
Pretty claret jug c1903 by Harry Powell at James Powell & Sons.
Powell were regular exhibitors at the Arts & Crafts exhibition. Harry learned silver smithing with C R Ashbee whose influenced is seen in these delicate, trailing lines.
Victorian Radicals @BMAG excellent catalogue.
Photo my own.
Powell were regular exhibitors at the Arts & Crafts exhibition. Harry learned silver smithing with C R Ashbee whose influenced is seen in these delicate, trailing lines.
Victorian Radicals @BMAG excellent catalogue.
Photo my own.
November 17, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Pretty claret jug c1903 by Harry Powell at James Powell & Sons.
Powell were regular exhibitors at the Arts & Crafts exhibition. Harry learned silver smithing with C R Ashbee whose influenced is seen in these delicate, trailing lines.
Victorian Radicals @BMAG excellent catalogue.
Photo my own.
Powell were regular exhibitors at the Arts & Crafts exhibition. Harry learned silver smithing with C R Ashbee whose influenced is seen in these delicate, trailing lines.
Victorian Radicals @BMAG excellent catalogue.
Photo my own.
The oaks at Boscobel.
It’s so peaceful here.
It’s so peaceful here.
October 13, 2023 at 6:43 AM
The oaks at Boscobel.
It’s so peaceful here.
It’s so peaceful here.