@pocketfulofstories.bsky.social
Keeper of lost things. Returner of lost books to their families or archives 📚History and book hound. Writes poems sometimes. Maid of Kent. Never stop being curious.
Indeed :) I’ve yet to visit the Pen Museum in Birmingham which is in his old factory he also built a rather nice Turkish Bath whilst he was at it…
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Indeed :) I’ve yet to visit the Pen Museum in Birmingham which is in his old factory he also built a rather nice Turkish Bath whilst he was at it…
Hello fountain pen hounds, can I introduce you to someone from my family’s history? This is W E Wiley - in the 1850’s he invented a better method of slitting gold pen nibs, thus reducing their cost, so more people could buy them, from a guinea to 5 shillings- he’s a bit of a hero of mine 🖋️ ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Hello fountain pen hounds, can I introduce you to someone from my family’s history? This is W E Wiley - in the 1850’s he invented a better method of slitting gold pen nibs, thus reducing their cost, so more people could buy them, from a guinea to 5 shillings- he’s a bit of a hero of mine 🖋️ ❤️
I get the same feeling Cathy when I look at this bit of astonishing brass work that we inherited
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I get the same feeling Cathy when I look at this bit of astonishing brass work that we inherited
The amazing brigade of knitters/crochet enthusiasts in the UK who produce what we call ‘Post box toppers’ are turning their craft into an Olympic sport here…..❤️
August 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The amazing brigade of knitters/crochet enthusiasts in the UK who produce what we call ‘Post box toppers’ are turning their craft into an Olympic sport here…..❤️
‘God knows what’s hiding in this world of little consequence
Behind the tears inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts..
People help the people’
Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S...
A song for our times ❤️
Behind the tears inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts..
People help the people’
Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S...
A song for our times ❤️
April 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
‘God knows what’s hiding in this world of little consequence
Behind the tears inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts..
People help the people’
Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S...
A song for our times ❤️
Behind the tears inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts..
People help the people’
Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S...
A song for our times ❤️
I’m enjoying these jewel like beauties
April 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I’m enjoying these jewel like beauties
Happy Mothering Sunday. Here’s me on my Great Grandmother’s knee with my grandmother & my mother, on the right my mother sits on her Great Grandmother’s knee with her Grandmother & mother - my unbroken thread of mother’s love thru poverty, two wars , Depression & the Spanish Flu ❤️ #motheringsunday
March 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Happy Mothering Sunday. Here’s me on my Great Grandmother’s knee with my grandmother & my mother, on the right my mother sits on her Great Grandmother’s knee with her Grandmother & mother - my unbroken thread of mother’s love thru poverty, two wars , Depression & the Spanish Flu ❤️ #motheringsunday
This lesson from history seems apt 👇 ❤️ Ukraine
March 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This lesson from history seems apt 👇 ❤️ Ukraine
And this history lesson 👇 Slava Ukraini ❤️
March 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
And this history lesson 👇 Slava Ukraini ❤️
And this 👇 Slava Ukraini ❤️
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And this 👇 Slava Ukraini ❤️
Slava Ukraini ❤️
February 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Slava Ukraini ❤️
Slava Ukraini ❤️
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Slava Ukraini ❤️
Slightly amazed to discover, I know not how, a book that belonged to Ralph Hart Tweddell, the inventor of the portable riveter, which had a big impact on ship building and other industries…’The Arts and Industry of All Nations’ 1860 quite a book and quite a man #engineers 💙 📚
January 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Slightly amazed to discover, I know not how, a book that belonged to Ralph Hart Tweddell, the inventor of the portable riveter, which had a big impact on ship building and other industries…’The Arts and Industry of All Nations’ 1860 quite a book and quite a man #engineers 💙 📚
Looking forward to starting this jigsaw from the Bodleian Library….🧩🧩💙📚
January 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Looking forward to starting this jigsaw from the Bodleian Library….🧩🧩💙📚
‘That it may speak to the youth of England in times to come many & diverse were the expectations formed of them but everyone of these has been surpassed by this event. They have all been found to make the greatest denial of self, they paid away their own lives so that their fellows may be happy’ ❤️
January 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
‘That it may speak to the youth of England in times to come many & diverse were the expectations formed of them but everyone of these has been surpassed by this event. They have all been found to make the greatest denial of self, they paid away their own lives so that their fellows may be happy’ ❤️
‘We pass to the thought of the many who will not return not because of any change of plan but because the offer that has been made has been accepted to the full. For these no privilege we can devise avails. Yet the university bears them upon her ❤️ & will not neglect to perpetuate their memory’ /3
January 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
‘We pass to the thought of the many who will not return not because of any change of plan but because the offer that has been made has been accepted to the full. For these no privilege we can devise avails. Yet the university bears them upon her ❤️ & will not neglect to perpetuate their memory’ /3
They’re were some astonishing acts of bravery & amazingly most of them survived but what affects me most is the eulogy given by the University Chaplain after the war for the students they lost /2
January 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
They’re were some astonishing acts of bravery & amazingly most of them survived but what affects me most is the eulogy given by the University Chaplain after the war for the students they lost /2
Post an old photo in your possession & say why you like it. This photo hangs on our landing, the Cambridge University Golf Blues in 1913. My husband’s gfather is 3rd from the left. He’s 22. What sense did they have of what was to come? On the back I recorded what happened to them all/1
January 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Post an old photo in your possession & say why you like it. This photo hangs on our landing, the Cambridge University Golf Blues in 1913. My husband’s gfather is 3rd from the left. He’s 22. What sense did they have of what was to come? On the back I recorded what happened to them all/1
Learning about the love-in ❤️between 220 & 284 from this book is a happy place for me terrified of maths at school. #amicablenumbers every day’s a learning day 💙📚 #maths
January 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Learning about the love-in ❤️between 220 & 284 from this book is a happy place for me terrified of maths at school. #amicablenumbers every day’s a learning day 💙📚 #maths
Hello fountain pen hounds, this is William E Wiley, instrumental in mass manufacture of fountain pen nibs in Birmingham. Father of my husband’s ggmother, he caused a tectonic plate shift in the availability of fountain pen nibs ✒️ reducing the cost from 3 guineas to shillings. He’s a hero of mine ❤️
January 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Hello fountain pen hounds, this is William E Wiley, instrumental in mass manufacture of fountain pen nibs in Birmingham. Father of my husband’s ggmother, he caused a tectonic plate shift in the availability of fountain pen nibs ✒️ reducing the cost from 3 guineas to shillings. He’s a hero of mine ❤️
How exactly do you live with 80 minutes of memory? This book is a thing of beauty…the Professor believes in the beauty of miscalculation for teaching you as much as getting it right ❤️#booksky 💙📚
January 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
How exactly do you live with 80 minutes of memory? This book is a thing of beauty…the Professor believes in the beauty of miscalculation for teaching you as much as getting it right ❤️#booksky 💙📚
Post an old photo in your possession and say what you like about it….this feels like that moment of stillness, just before the noise of the Great War. These unknown members of my family, gliding gracefully towards disaster #Birdsong #oldphotoalbum
January 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Post an old photo in your possession and say what you like about it….this feels like that moment of stillness, just before the noise of the Great War. These unknown members of my family, gliding gracefully towards disaster #Birdsong #oldphotoalbum
Post an old photo in your possession & say what you like about it….This little chap is unknown but part of my Birmingham family history. He lives on the mantelpiece, he’s so proud of his outfit. It was taken by HJ Whitlock, famous photographers of the Royal Family c1830’s #geneaology #oldphotoalbum
January 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Post an old photo in your possession & say what you like about it….This little chap is unknown but part of my Birmingham family history. He lives on the mantelpiece, he’s so proud of his outfit. It was taken by HJ Whitlock, famous photographers of the Royal Family c1830’s #geneaology #oldphotoalbum