Northwest Nature and History
@nwnandh.bsky.social
Writer from Northwest England specialising in Natural History and Local History
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
‘The Sun had Closed the Winter’s Day’
By Joseph Farquharson.
Currently on display in Towneley Hall, (and usually on many christmas cards too!)
#TowneleyHall #Burnley #Lancashire #Art
@towneleyhall.bsky.social @visitlancashire.bsky.social
By Joseph Farquharson.
Currently on display in Towneley Hall, (and usually on many christmas cards too!)
#TowneleyHall #Burnley #Lancashire #Art
@towneleyhall.bsky.social @visitlancashire.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
‘The Sun had Closed the Winter’s Day’
By Joseph Farquharson.
Currently on display in Towneley Hall, (and usually on many christmas cards too!)
#TowneleyHall #Burnley #Lancashire #Art
@towneleyhall.bsky.social @visitlancashire.bsky.social
By Joseph Farquharson.
Currently on display in Towneley Hall, (and usually on many christmas cards too!)
#TowneleyHall #Burnley #Lancashire #Art
@towneleyhall.bsky.social @visitlancashire.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I addressed this in an article I published about heather beetle a little while ago, land managers create firebreaks, so why not beetle breaks?
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I addressed this in an article I published about heather beetle a little while ago, land managers create firebreaks, so why not beetle breaks?
Latest reading material, some light, others more heavy-going, should keep me going for a while but I can hardly find the time to read anything nowadays!
#reading #books #history #Lancashire #Bookshelf
#reading #books #history #Lancashire #Bookshelf
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Latest reading material, some light, others more heavy-going, should keep me going for a while but I can hardly find the time to read anything nowadays!
#reading #books #history #Lancashire #Bookshelf
#reading #books #history #Lancashire #Bookshelf
@anamca.bsky.social I forgot to post this chutney update, it tastes great with cheese!
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
@anamca.bsky.social I forgot to post this chutney update, it tastes great with cheese!
Barry at Sue’s Deli in Clitheroe Market saved this out-of-date cream for me to make butter with, he even called me to let me know he had it!
You don’t get service like that in a supermarket!
#ShopLocal #ClitheroeMarket #Clitheroe
#RibbleValley
You don’t get service like that in a supermarket!
#ShopLocal #ClitheroeMarket #Clitheroe
#RibbleValley
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Barry at Sue’s Deli in Clitheroe Market saved this out-of-date cream for me to make butter with, he even called me to let me know he had it!
You don’t get service like that in a supermarket!
#ShopLocal #ClitheroeMarket #Clitheroe
#RibbleValley
You don’t get service like that in a supermarket!
#ShopLocal #ClitheroeMarket #Clitheroe
#RibbleValley
Please pray for Jamaica, the hurricane they’re going to get pummelled by #Melissa could be, with 175mph+ winds, the strongest ever to hit them since 1851, it’s already at the limits for how big a hurricane can be at that latitude.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Please pray for Jamaica, the hurricane they’re going to get pummelled by #Melissa could be, with 175mph+ winds, the strongest ever to hit them since 1851, it’s already at the limits for how big a hurricane can be at that latitude.
October 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Meet Billy (my wife named him)
He wandered into work with a broken wing.
I somehow ended up taking him home.
We took him to the vets, he’s got an air-rifle pellet lodged in his wing and he’ll never fly again.
So it looks like we now have a pigeon!
#pigeon
He wandered into work with a broken wing.
I somehow ended up taking him home.
We took him to the vets, he’s got an air-rifle pellet lodged in his wing and he’ll never fly again.
So it looks like we now have a pigeon!
#pigeon
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Meet Billy (my wife named him)
He wandered into work with a broken wing.
I somehow ended up taking him home.
We took him to the vets, he’s got an air-rifle pellet lodged in his wing and he’ll never fly again.
So it looks like we now have a pigeon!
#pigeon
He wandered into work with a broken wing.
I somehow ended up taking him home.
We took him to the vets, he’s got an air-rifle pellet lodged in his wing and he’ll never fly again.
So it looks like we now have a pigeon!
#pigeon
How it’s going (we’re going to need a bigger pan!)
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
How it’s going (we’re going to need a bigger pan!)
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Campion still holding on down by the river
#wildflowerhour #botany #autumn #nature
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour #botany #autumn #nature
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Campion still holding on down by the river
#wildflowerhour #botany #autumn #nature
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour #botany #autumn #nature
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
On this day, 6 years ago, we saw the last remnants of Thwaites Brewery’s famous tower being torn down 😔
#OnThisDay #Blackburn #Thwaites #History
#OnThisDay #Blackburn #Thwaites #History
October 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
On this day, 6 years ago, we saw the last remnants of Thwaites Brewery’s famous tower being torn down 😔
#OnThisDay #Blackburn #Thwaites #History
#OnThisDay #Blackburn #Thwaites #History
October 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
October 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
John William Waterhouse’s stunning piece ‘Destiny’
Oil on canvas, painted for the Artists War Fund in 1900
Currently on display in Burnley’s Towneley Hall
#RomanticVibes #OilPainting #art #Burnley #TowneleyHall
Oil on canvas, painted for the Artists War Fund in 1900
Currently on display in Burnley’s Towneley Hall
#RomanticVibes #OilPainting #art #Burnley #TowneleyHall
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
John William Waterhouse’s stunning piece ‘Destiny’
Oil on canvas, painted for the Artists War Fund in 1900
Currently on display in Burnley’s Towneley Hall
#RomanticVibes #OilPainting #art #Burnley #TowneleyHall
Oil on canvas, painted for the Artists War Fund in 1900
Currently on display in Burnley’s Towneley Hall
#RomanticVibes #OilPainting #art #Burnley #TowneleyHall
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Look at all these pears!
Free from a neighbour, Smooth Conference as well so very versatile.
What should we make with them though? 🍐🤔
#fruit #harvest #Autumn2025
Free from a neighbour, Smooth Conference as well so very versatile.
What should we make with them though? 🍐🤔
#fruit #harvest #Autumn2025
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Look at all these pears!
Free from a neighbour, Smooth Conference as well so very versatile.
What should we make with them though? 🍐🤔
#fruit #harvest #Autumn2025
Free from a neighbour, Smooth Conference as well so very versatile.
What should we make with them though? 🍐🤔
#fruit #harvest #Autumn2025
We’ve got hundreds of these, orb web spiders, you can’t go out without destroying their artworks 😢
I find myself walking about like an Egyptian trying to avoid getting cobwebs in my face!
I find myself walking about like an Egyptian trying to avoid getting cobwebs in my face!
October 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We’ve got hundreds of these, orb web spiders, you can’t go out without destroying their artworks 😢
I find myself walking about like an Egyptian trying to avoid getting cobwebs in my face!
I find myself walking about like an Egyptian trying to avoid getting cobwebs in my face!
Just looked at my childhood home (I know you’re not meant to do this) as I’m writing about Fulwood barracks opposite and discovered that, as well as the garden looking beautiful, the fir tree I planted with my dad in 1984 is still there and about 50ft tall!
#Preston #Childhood
#Preston #Childhood
October 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Just looked at my childhood home (I know you’re not meant to do this) as I’m writing about Fulwood barracks opposite and discovered that, as well as the garden looking beautiful, the fir tree I planted with my dad in 1984 is still there and about 50ft tall!
#Preston #Childhood
#Preston #Childhood