Morwenna Rae
@morwennarae.bsky.social
Museum person, Midlander. Gardener. Team Leader at Erewash Museum. Part of Lichfield Discovered CIC.
Biddulph Grange Gardens @nationaltrust.org.uk. Beautiful (and busy!) in the sunshine. The plant collection is very special and it's full of secret passages and hidden grottos. Completely different to most fancy gardens.
May 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Biddulph Grange Gardens @nationaltrust.org.uk. Beautiful (and busy!) in the sunshine. The plant collection is very special and it's full of secret passages and hidden grottos. Completely different to most fancy gardens.
The very atmospheric D. H. Lawrence museum in Eastwood, Notts. Like a time capsule inside and out - really worth a visit.
May 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The very atmospheric D. H. Lawrence museum in Eastwood, Notts. Like a time capsule inside and out - really worth a visit.
I think Friday evening cricket is my favourite of the kids' activities.
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I think Friday evening cricket is my favourite of the kids' activities.
First week in the new job done. A place with loads of stories and potential. And, very importantly, a wisteria about to bloom (that I'm desperate to prune properly as well!)
April 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
First week in the new job done. A place with loads of stories and potential. And, very importantly, a wisteria about to bloom (that I'm desperate to prune properly as well!)
A couple of years ago, the council removed trees in a wooded area of a park. It felt slightly ruined tbh.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A couple of years ago, the council removed trees in a wooded area of a park. It felt slightly ruined tbh.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
April 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Remains of an 18th-century flour mill, Gentleshaw.
April 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Remains of an 18th-century flour mill, Gentleshaw.
Footprints etched into a stone slab at St Wystan's in Repton. I'd love to know why.
#apotropaic #church
#apotropaic #church
April 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Footprints etched into a stone slab at St Wystan's in Repton. I'd love to know why.
#apotropaic #church
#apotropaic #church
St Wystan's church in Repton is most famous for it's Anglo Saxon crypt that housed the bones of Mercia' kings.
I was quite taken with the ceiling grotesques that are so high up, you need a camera zoom to see them. Who was the audience for these creepy chaps and what was the message?
I was quite taken with the ceiling grotesques that are so high up, you need a camera zoom to see them. Who was the audience for these creepy chaps and what was the message?
April 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
St Wystan's church in Repton is most famous for it's Anglo Saxon crypt that housed the bones of Mercia' kings.
I was quite taken with the ceiling grotesques that are so high up, you need a camera zoom to see them. Who was the audience for these creepy chaps and what was the message?
I was quite taken with the ceiling grotesques that are so high up, you need a camera zoom to see them. Who was the audience for these creepy chaps and what was the message?
A reminder of how much I appreciate modern sanitation. This bad boy was in use as a public loo until...1980!
It's an earth closet, so you did the business then covered it with a layer of earth (ideally good loamy soil, but anything to hand). Then it was taken outside.
#sharpspottery #history
It's an earth closet, so you did the business then covered it with a layer of earth (ideally good loamy soil, but anything to hand). Then it was taken outside.
#sharpspottery #history
April 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A reminder of how much I appreciate modern sanitation. This bad boy was in use as a public loo until...1980!
It's an earth closet, so you did the business then covered it with a layer of earth (ideally good loamy soil, but anything to hand). Then it was taken outside.
#sharpspottery #history
It's an earth closet, so you did the business then covered it with a layer of earth (ideally good loamy soil, but anything to hand). Then it was taken outside.
#sharpspottery #history
In 1750, a group of German Moravians, looking for religious freedom, built a village in Ockbrook, Derbyshire. The church is still in use today and the village is like stepping into another world.
April 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
In 1750, a group of German Moravians, looking for religious freedom, built a village in Ockbrook, Derbyshire. The church is still in use today and the village is like stepping into another world.
The ruins of the medieval St Mary's Abbey are casually in a field in Dale Abbey, Derbyshire.
April 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The ruins of the medieval St Mary's Abbey are casually in a field in Dale Abbey, Derbyshire.
Hyacinths on a glorious sunny day. This is Delft Blue and the salmon pink of Gypsy Queen four years on from being planted.
The name comes from yet another Greek who got entangled in a romance with the gods and ended up dead, but floral.
The name comes from yet another Greek who got entangled in a romance with the gods and ended up dead, but floral.
April 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hyacinths on a glorious sunny day. This is Delft Blue and the salmon pink of Gypsy Queen four years on from being planted.
The name comes from yet another Greek who got entangled in a romance with the gods and ended up dead, but floral.
The name comes from yet another Greek who got entangled in a romance with the gods and ended up dead, but floral.
The Scala Picture House in Ilkeston must be one of the oldest cinemas still going. It's a rather magnificent Edwardian concoction decorated with swags and scrolls, that's been running for over 110 years.
March 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Scala Picture House in Ilkeston must be one of the oldest cinemas still going. It's a rather magnificent Edwardian concoction decorated with swags and scrolls, that's been running for over 110 years.
Glorious morning for a walk around some very old trackways.
March 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Glorious morning for a walk around some very old trackways.
Long Eaton mills, still in use with loads of textile businesses. Amazing architecture, especially with a blue sky.
Long Eaton was a lace making centre for many years.
Long Eaton was a lace making centre for many years.
February 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Long Eaton mills, still in use with loads of textile businesses. Amazing architecture, especially with a blue sky.
Long Eaton was a lace making centre for many years.
Long Eaton was a lace making centre for many years.
I was looking for apotropaic marks on a church in Stafford 🤣
February 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I was looking for apotropaic marks on a church in Stafford 🤣
The intriguing Boscobel House, home of the famous Royal Oak and hidey hole for King Charles.
It started life as an unassuming little woodland cottage and grew into this over the years. Really strong links with Catholicism, hidden away in the woods.
The burnt timbers look apotropaic to me…
It started life as an unassuming little woodland cottage and grew into this over the years. Really strong links with Catholicism, hidden away in the woods.
The burnt timbers look apotropaic to me…
February 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The intriguing Boscobel House, home of the famous Royal Oak and hidey hole for King Charles.
It started life as an unassuming little woodland cottage and grew into this over the years. Really strong links with Catholicism, hidden away in the woods.
The burnt timbers look apotropaic to me…
It started life as an unassuming little woodland cottage and grew into this over the years. Really strong links with Catholicism, hidden away in the woods.
The burnt timbers look apotropaic to me…
White Ladies Priory near Boscobel. Absolutely love an atmospheric ruin in a field.
This was a 12th century priory, which had under 10 canonesses living in it until the 1500s. After that, it was a Manor House.
Everything is gone now apart from the medieval walls of the priory church.
This was a 12th century priory, which had under 10 canonesses living in it until the 1500s. After that, it was a Manor House.
Everything is gone now apart from the medieval walls of the priory church.
February 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
White Ladies Priory near Boscobel. Absolutely love an atmospheric ruin in a field.
This was a 12th century priory, which had under 10 canonesses living in it until the 1500s. After that, it was a Manor House.
Everything is gone now apart from the medieval walls of the priory church.
This was a 12th century priory, which had under 10 canonesses living in it until the 1500s. After that, it was a Manor House.
Everything is gone now apart from the medieval walls of the priory church.
Medieval Women @britishlibrary.bsky.social was a cracker.
So exciting to see the Luttrell Psalter, Joan of Arc’s signature and the birthing girdle in person. Also the forthright Welsh poetry!
So exciting to see the Luttrell Psalter, Joan of Arc’s signature and the birthing girdle in person. Also the forthright Welsh poetry!
February 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Medieval Women @britishlibrary.bsky.social was a cracker.
So exciting to see the Luttrell Psalter, Joan of Arc’s signature and the birthing girdle in person. Also the forthright Welsh poetry!
So exciting to see the Luttrell Psalter, Joan of Arc’s signature and the birthing girdle in person. Also the forthright Welsh poetry!
A bit of the Midlands on display at a London blockbuster 🧡. Lichfield Angel in Silk Roads at the British Museum.
January 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A bit of the Midlands on display at a London blockbuster 🧡. Lichfield Angel in Silk Roads at the British Museum.
Cannock Chase. Hard to imagine part of it was a hive of medieval and early modern industry.
January 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Cannock Chase. Hard to imagine part of it was a hive of medieval and early modern industry.
A great thing about working in a community museum is offering gallery space to local groups to showcase their work publicly.
We’ve just hung a display of work by a group of adults with learning differences. They’ve responded a local poet’s work
I’m doing our bit of the display and loving it!
We’ve just hung a display of work by a group of adults with learning differences. They’ve responded a local poet’s work
I’m doing our bit of the display and loving it!
January 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
A great thing about working in a community museum is offering gallery space to local groups to showcase their work publicly.
We’ve just hung a display of work by a group of adults with learning differences. They’ve responded a local poet’s work
I’m doing our bit of the display and loving it!
We’ve just hung a display of work by a group of adults with learning differences. They’ve responded a local poet’s work
I’m doing our bit of the display and loving it!
Health and safety 1910s style! Building a settling tank at Littleton Colliery, Cannock Chase.
Imagine balancing at that height with no harness.
Imagine balancing at that height with no harness.
January 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Health and safety 1910s style! Building a settling tank at Littleton Colliery, Cannock Chase.
Imagine balancing at that height with no harness.
Imagine balancing at that height with no harness.
One of my favourite new things in the Museum of Cannock Chase collection ❤️. This pretty, silk embroidered Christmas card was sent home from France during the First World War.
Have a peaceful Christmas 🎄
#christmas #firstworldwar
Have a peaceful Christmas 🎄
#christmas #firstworldwar
December 23, 2024 at 1:03 PM
One of my favourite new things in the Museum of Cannock Chase collection ❤️. This pretty, silk embroidered Christmas card was sent home from France during the First World War.
Have a peaceful Christmas 🎄
#christmas #firstworldwar
Have a peaceful Christmas 🎄
#christmas #firstworldwar