Ruth _W
@ruth-w.bsky.social
Family historian of many years standing, very amateur photographer, interested in local history (Wirral & Liverpool), walking, running, gardening.
Happily retired 😄 with time to dabble in all sorts.
Happily retired 😄 with time to dabble in all sorts.
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NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
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An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
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Black Friday sale! We are offering 15% off ALL of our courses from now until the end of 1st December. Use code FRIDAY15 at checkout. Terms and conditions here: www.pharostutors.com/black-friday...
Please spread the word!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses #BlackFriday2025
Please spread the word!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses #BlackFriday2025
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Black Friday sale! We are offering 15% off ALL of our courses from now until the end of 1st December. Use code FRIDAY15 at checkout. Terms and conditions here: www.pharostutors.com/black-friday...
Please spread the word!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses #BlackFriday2025
Please spread the word!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses #BlackFriday2025
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News | Two museums announce closure due to low footfall and rising costs
Quaker Tapestry Museum and Museum of Carpet will both shut next month
Quaker Tapestry Museum and Museum of Carpet will both shut next month
Two museums announce closure due to low footfall and rising costs - Museums Association
Quaker Tapestry Museum and Museum of Carpet will both shut next month
www.museumsassociation.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
News | Two museums announce closure due to low footfall and rising costs
Quaker Tapestry Museum and Museum of Carpet will both shut next month
Quaker Tapestry Museum and Museum of Carpet will both shut next month
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
#FamilyHistory 1880 burial register. If someone 'gave the order', would you take that to be the person who paid for the burial? I've come across a rather random burial with the order given by one of my distinctive family names ...
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
#FamilyHistory 1880 burial register. If someone 'gave the order', would you take that to be the person who paid for the burial? I've come across a rather random burial with the order given by one of my distinctive family names ...
Small rant - why can't Ancestry distinguish between maiden and married names? You are NOT going to be baptised as a child with your married name and are pretty unlikely to be buried with your maiden name (in E&W, until recently, caveats etc) 😡 #FamilyHistory
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Small rant - why can't Ancestry distinguish between maiden and married names? You are NOT going to be baptised as a child with your married name and are pretty unlikely to be buried with your maiden name (in E&W, until recently, caveats etc) 😡 #FamilyHistory
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#Liverpool (Stanley & Clarence Docks) 1848-64
The innovative nature of Liverpool is sometimes forgotten; the worlds’ first commercial enclosed wet dock complex in 1715 is now buried under a Liverpool One, but its success built a metropolis & changed the world.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/liv14.htm
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The innovative nature of Liverpool is sometimes forgotten; the worlds’ first commercial enclosed wet dock complex in 1715 is now buried under a Liverpool One, but its success built a metropolis & changed the world.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/liv14.htm
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November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#Liverpool (Stanley & Clarence Docks) 1848-64
The innovative nature of Liverpool is sometimes forgotten; the worlds’ first commercial enclosed wet dock complex in 1715 is now buried under a Liverpool One, but its success built a metropolis & changed the world.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/liv14.htm
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The innovative nature of Liverpool is sometimes forgotten; the worlds’ first commercial enclosed wet dock complex in 1715 is now buried under a Liverpool One, but its success built a metropolis & changed the world.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/liv14.htm
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Maps, Maps, Maps!
We have a good number of maps of #Cheshire that you can view and download FREE of charge. See our website in the Bio 😊
#localhistory #maps #Saxton
We have a good number of maps of #Cheshire that you can view and download FREE of charge. See our website in the Bio 😊
#localhistory #maps #Saxton
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Maps, Maps, Maps!
We have a good number of maps of #Cheshire that you can view and download FREE of charge. See our website in the Bio 😊
#localhistory #maps #Saxton
We have a good number of maps of #Cheshire that you can view and download FREE of charge. See our website in the Bio 😊
#localhistory #maps #Saxton
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@lmrailway.bsky.social .
A new project to illustrate all 31 miles of the L&MR with information panels along the way. First steps.All aboard..
A new project to illustrate all 31 miles of the L&MR with information panels along the way. First steps.All aboard..
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@lmrailway.bsky.social .
A new project to illustrate all 31 miles of the L&MR with information panels along the way. First steps.All aboard..
A new project to illustrate all 31 miles of the L&MR with information panels along the way. First steps.All aboard..
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Why is Ed Davey the only frontline politician to be saying this?
Journalist, "Farage accused the BBC of election interference"
Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"
"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"
Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"
"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Why is Ed Davey the only frontline politician to be saying this?
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
Dramatic skies over the old tower of St Hilary, Wallasey, after a dull, wet afternoon. #Wirral #Photography
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Dramatic skies over the old tower of St Hilary, Wallasey, after a dull, wet afternoon. #Wirral #Photography
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Founded in 1907 to defend landowners’ interests, the CLA has fought against every major push to open up the countryside. From blocking early footpath reforms to opposing today’s right to roam movement, the CLA has stood on the wrong side of public access for over a century.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Founded in 1907 to defend landowners’ interests, the CLA has fought against every major push to open up the countryside. From blocking early footpath reforms to opposing today’s right to roam movement, the CLA has stood on the wrong side of public access for over a century.
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This should go everywhere- and far beyond “us”, because we understand the horrors of this.
Amazingly - many don’t.
Amazingly - many don’t.
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This should go everywhere- and far beyond “us”, because we understand the horrors of this.
Amazingly - many don’t.
Amazingly - many don’t.
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It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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This popped up a few times in our feeds over the last day or so. We had to share it 🫶
#kitchengarden #growing #growyourown #gardening #plot #allotment #growyourownfood #allotmentsuk #homegrown #garden #gardenlove #gardeninspiration
#kitchengarden #growing #growyourown #gardening #plot #allotment #growyourownfood #allotmentsuk #homegrown #garden #gardenlove #gardeninspiration
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This popped up a few times in our feeds over the last day or so. We had to share it 🫶
#kitchengarden #growing #growyourown #gardening #plot #allotment #growyourownfood #allotmentsuk #homegrown #garden #gardenlove #gardeninspiration
#kitchengarden #growing #growyourown #gardening #plot #allotment #growyourownfood #allotmentsuk #homegrown #garden #gardenlove #gardeninspiration
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
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Hard to even know what to write when I see things like this. Look at it, here's your North/South divide. What's labour doing to address this? What did the Tories do? What have successive governments over the years actually done to address this?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hard to even know what to write when I see things like this. Look at it, here's your North/South divide. What's labour doing to address this? What did the Tories do? What have successive governments over the years actually done to address this?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lovely autumn day for a walk along Leasowe embankment #Wirral #Photography
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Lovely autumn day for a walk along Leasowe embankment #Wirral #Photography