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Andy Wade, Historian. Author.
We research Keighley & Worth Valley people who served in wartime. We remember their service and try to ensure they’re not forgotten. Est. 2001, QAVS 2021.
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Yesterday we launched our #Oakworth #Remembrance #Trail. We installed 96 boards on lamp-posts around our village, next to, or close to the homes of the Oakworth men who died in the first and second world wars. A QR Code guides visitors to their biographies on our website:
www.menofworth.org.uk/trail
Seven out of the eight adult volunteers who came out to install the 96 Oakworth Remembrance Trail Boards on Thursday 30th October 2025. Each volunteer is holding a white A3 sized correx board printed with details of a serviceman who died in either the First or the Second World Wars, which will go on to lamp-posts near their homes from before they enlisted. Behind this group is a large laurel hedge and a drystone wall. A man is standing in front of a stage in a village hall and he is holding a clipboard. He is talking to a large group of people seated on several rows of chairs, many of whom are Army Cadets and Sea Cadets in uniform. Nobody has fallen asleep, yet...
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And if you're only just coming to the amazing story of the California Clipper, we are genuinely so excited for you — it is, as we say here in The Up Front Towers, an absolute bloody ripper.

Start here: theupfront.media/the-long-way... #avgeek
The Long Way Round: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 1
In 1941, the Japanese attacked Hawaii, leaving Pan Am flight 18602 trapped the wrong side of Pearl Harbor, To get home, its civilian crew would have to do something incredible: circumnavigate the worl...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
menofworth.bsky.social
Some details of the #Bradford Wool Exchange. A grade one listed building which is the setting for #Waterstones Bookshop. I wonder how many people look up at the beautiful ceiling?
A beautiful arched timber framed ceiling inside the Bradford Wool Exchange building. There is a six pointed star window at the end and at the bottom of the image, rows of bookshelves. A section of tiled wall with a double diamond pattern in green tiles. The centre of each diamond is filled with colourful tiles forming a flower design.
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The latest addition to our website blog is Private Walter Blenkarn of #Keighley and his story is available to read here:
menofworth.org.uk/walter-blenk...
Wounded three times, he died of the last one in a hospital in Manchester. His family had it's fair share of tragedies with several child deaths.
Private Walter Blenkarn -
Walter's parents were Charles Henry Blenkarn and Ann Mary Blenkarn née Pullan. They were married on the 19th of August 1882 at Keighley Parish Church
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November 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
menofworth.bsky.social
Added to our website blog this morning is the story of Serjeant Anthony Ginley (alias Foy) killed in action in 1944.
The original inquiry about his family memorial at Utley Cemetery coming from Paul Skinner some years ago, was researched and written up Rob Gillard:

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Serjeant Anthony Foy -
Anthony Foy was killed in the Second World War. His real surname was Ginley but he was serving under his mother's maiden name of Foy and his details on the
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November 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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genealgenie.bsky.social
Browsing the CWGC database today by regiment and date of death it suddenly hit me that I could use it to fill in the names of those frustratingly unnamed OR casualties in war diary entries Not necessarily that precisely but a start /1 #Remembrance #familyhistory
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
menofworth.bsky.social
Currently working on the story of Lance Corporal Albert Mewburn Bradshaw, who died being transported in the Japanese Hell ship ‘Ho Kuru Maru’ which was sunk by torpedo bombers in 1944. A story of needless cruelty.

RIP.

See if you can find his name on Keighley’s Second World War memorial panel…
Newspaper cutting featuring Lance Corporal Albert Mewburn Bradshaw who died on a Japanese hell ship in 1944. It includes his portrait photo in uniform. A bronze war memorial panel on the fallen from Keighley in the Second World War. There are six columns and 275 names. It is on the wall at Keighley Library.
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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terriermcd.bsky.social
107 years ago today at 11am the guns fell silent. I remember all those who served & were affected by war & especially those who never came home including my 2 relatives #ArmisticeDay #WW1
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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It is ‘that’ time of year again!

Tickets for our annual ‘Trenches by Twilight’ event are now on sale. Hear the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce with Taff Gillingham as we make our way through the Trenches by the light of our lanterns.

10th-13th December. For tickets:
www.greatwarhuts.org/events
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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ckolonko.bsky.social
Take the time remember the members of the Home Forces who were killed on active duty in the UK during the Second World War. Despite comprising in the region of 1.8 million soldiers of the Regular and Territorial Army, and Commonwealth and Free Forces, their sacrifice goes largely unacknowledged.
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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I may well remember, remember the fifth of November, but, for the life of me, I can't quite remember where I took this photograph. In my defence, I could add that it was almost sixty years ago and the building was on its last legs then.....
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
menofworth.bsky.social
Here’s a few of our #Oakworth #Remembrance Trail information boards about local men who died in the First and Second World Wars, placed near to their former homes during the Remembrance period. They will be up until the end of November.

More here: www.menofworth.org.uk/trail

#FWW #SWW #WW1 #WW2
An A3 size plastic board fixed to a lamp post. It is part of our Oakworth Remembrance Trail which has placed 96 boards near to the former homes of men who were killed in the First and Second World Wars. They will be up for the whole of November 2025. This is at Elmwood Terrace. An A3 size plastic board fixed to a lamp post. It is part of our Oakworth Remembrance Trail which has placed 96 boards near to the former homes of men who were killed in the First and Second World Wars. They will be up for the whole of November 2025. This is at Commercial Street. An A3 size plastic board fixed to a lamp post. It is part of our Oakworth Remembrance Trail which has placed 96 boards near to the former homes of men who were killed in the First and Second World Wars. They will be up for the whole of November 2025. This is at Oakworth Hall. An A3 size plastic board fixed to a lamp post. It is part of our Oakworth Remembrance Trail which has placed 96 boards near to the former homes of men who were killed in the First and Second World Wars. They will be up for the whole of November 2025. This is at Oakworth Hall.
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Fragment of 4th century mosaic from the #Roman bathhouse of Lydney #Gloucestershire

Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩

Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social

#MosaicMonday
Detail of a Roman mosaic floor with blue-grey, cream and red tesserae arranged in geometric designs
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
Another brief visit to Fawsley, my local #OnePlaceStudy parish, this afternoon. Got chatting to a chap out walking who was interested in wildlife, family history and local history; he has Long Buckby Wharf connections so I recommended that he seeks out your OPS websites @juliegfamily.bsky.social!
Photo of a view across undulating countryside comprised of open green fields with plenty of trees (including a line of them along the higher ground forming the horizon), many with leaves of gold, yellow and brown as well as green. Above, a blue sky with lots of white clouds.
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#31DaysOfGraves. Day 19 catch-up: Social Group. My Waters Upton #OnePlaceStudy began with the churchyard then grew to take in the parish, including its cemetery, & revealed social groups—people who worked / socialised / played / prayed together, communities within a community—in both burial grounds.
Two photos combined in one image. Above: part of a cemetery, where modern gravestones are arranged in rows across the grass. Below: part of a churchyard, where older gravestones in a variety of forms appear to be distributed a little more haphazardly.
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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oneplacestudies.bsky.social
Burial grounds or memorials—or communities within them—can be researched as #OnePlaceStudies, a brilliant blend of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory. If that is something you’d like to learn more about, visit our website for more information. You can also download our PDF guide to one-place studies.
atcherleyons.bsky.social Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 21d
#31DaysOfGraves. Day 19 catch-up: Social Group. My Waters Upton #OnePlaceStudy began with the churchyard then grew to take in the parish, including its cemetery, & revealed social groups—people who worked / socialised / played / prayed together, communities within a community—in both burial grounds.
Two photos combined in one image. Above: part of a cemetery, where modern gravestones are arranged in rows across the grass. Below: part of a churchyard, where older gravestones in a variety of forms appear to be distributed a little more haphazardly.
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
Thank you! I try to include meaningful alt text whenever I can, to make my images accessible for those using screen-readers, and often to give additional info for all (plus text that can be picked up when searches are conducted).
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
menofworth.bsky.social
Yesterday we launched our #Oakworth #Remembrance #Trail. We installed 96 boards on lamp-posts around our village, next to, or close to the homes of the Oakworth men who died in the first and second world wars. A QR Code guides visitors to their biographies on our website:
www.menofworth.org.uk/trail
Seven out of the eight adult volunteers who came out to install the 96 Oakworth Remembrance Trail Boards on Thursday 30th October 2025. Each volunteer is holding a white A3 sized correx board printed with details of a serviceman who died in either the First or the Second World Wars, which will go on to lamp-posts near their homes from before they enlisted. Behind this group is a large laurel hedge and a drystone wall. A man is standing in front of a stage in a village hall and he is holding a clipboard. He is talking to a large group of people seated on several rows of chairs, many of whom are Army Cadets and Sea Cadets in uniform. Nobody has fallen asleep, yet...
October 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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bigandylock.bsky.social
Well that’s that. Very officially done and dusted PhD. Cheers.
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
Managed another short visit to Fawsley, my local #OnePlaceStudy parish, yesterday. As the sun/cloud ratio didn't favour landscape photography I spent more time in the church. The run-up to Halloween seems a great time to share some of its bonkers-but-brilliant box pew carvings. 🧵 #OnePlaceWednesday
Photo of a set of three carved wooden panels (two narrow ones with a wider one in the middle), found on the side of one of the box pews at Fawsley St Mary. On the left, there is what appears to be a dog; the leaf-like shapes above it may represent the dog's barking calls, in effect medieval 'speech bubbles'. The central panel features a trio of upright creatures with pointed ears and long, slim tails; the smallest is on the left, the largest - playing a fiddle-like instrument with a bow, is on the right. Beneath those creatures are several circular shapes, each with two projections on either side, possibly representing bowls. At the bottom a peculiar quadruped with a ridged back and a short, thick tail raised like an elephant's trunk stands with its head buried in a large cooking pot which has three feet. Finally, the panel on the right has the head and shoulders of a man wearing a hat, below which there is a bear-like creature with its feet on the left side of the panel; it has a collar around its neck from which a chain descends to a fixing point on the left side of the panel. At the bottom, rotated sideways and facing upwards, is the head and shoulders of a man holding a horn to his mouth with his left hand.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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mainlymuseums.bsky.social
I do love museum ships and here’s a great one to visit. She started as M33 but later became HMS Minerva. Have a wander.
#museums #museumfromhome #Portsmouth mainlymuseums.com/post/1162/hm...
HMS M.33: The lucky ship of Gallipoli
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October 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The names were once carefully painted in gold - and now fifteen young men from a forgotten WW2 memorial are remembered again 🌹
#LestWeForget #WW2 #KentHistory #RollofHonour

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Each Name a Story: The Lives Behind a Forgotten War Memorial
Fifteen young men, lost too soon, rediscovered from a forgotten Second World War memorial in Rochester. These are stories of courage, sacrifice, and the people behind the names
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October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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All being well, my next book comes out on 30 Nov 25. It looks at the alleged disappearance of the 5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment & looks at all the duff history that surrounds the story of their advance on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12 Aug 15 during the Gallipoli Campaign #WW1 #FWW #Norfolk #Gallipoli
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I have just posted this thehistoryinterpreter.com/2025/10/10/w... For my own sanity, I will not be engaging with negative comments. Feel free to unfriend me.
Why History Matters – the nearest I’ll come to a political post
I deliberately don’t post about politics because I don’t like confrontation but remaining completely silent makes me part of the problem. I don’t have allegiance to a particular political party, al…
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October 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a cartoon-like, stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against a white background. The front-facing octopus has a large red and white head/body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot. Below the head/body are eight writhing tentacles
September 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
menofworth.bsky.social
Looking into a local soldier who cut his own throat (off duty) He survived and was SNLR'd in 1908 (served 8 years.)
He spent a month at Wakefield Asylum and was discharged as 'not insane.'
Normally he would be in the Reserve for 5 years, but I am wondering if the circumstances and SNLR negated that?
A cropped image from an Army Service record from 1908 which states: Incised wound, throat. 26 Jan 1908. (not on duty) Cropped image from a 1908 Lunacy Patients Admission Register, which states that a man was 'not insane.'
September 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM