Reposted by Simon Kidner
#FunFact: we legally have to keep this register as it is a public record!
Our Collections Care team now use it to show the ways fire can do irreparable damage to our collections.
#Archives #ParishRegister #History
Our Collections Care team now use it to show the ways fire can do irreparable damage to our collections.
#Archives #ParishRegister #History
Believe it or not, this is a parish register from the seventeenth century that was damaged during a fire! 🔥
Heat causes the collagen fibres in the parchment to denature and shrink and eventually turn to gelatine, which sometimes has a ‘glassy’ appearance.
#EarlyModern #Skystorians
Heat causes the collagen fibres in the parchment to denature and shrink and eventually turn to gelatine, which sometimes has a ‘glassy’ appearance.
#EarlyModern #Skystorians
September 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#FunFact: we legally have to keep this register as it is a public record!
Our Collections Care team now use it to show the ways fire can do irreparable damage to our collections.
#Archives #ParishRegister #History
Our Collections Care team now use it to show the ways fire can do irreparable damage to our collections.
#Archives #ParishRegister #History
July 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Swifts! Party of four just zoomed low over my Swanage garden. Will they use the nest boxes?
May 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Swifts! Party of four just zoomed low over my Swanage garden. Will they use the nest boxes?
This is the type of rewilding we need! Screen grab just now fom SVT's coverage of the elk migration. Good views this morning of Golden Eagle, sandpipers, gossander, goldeneye etc.
April 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is the type of rewilding we need! Screen grab just now fom SVT's coverage of the elk migration. Good views this morning of Golden Eagle, sandpipers, gossander, goldeneye etc.
Reposted by Simon Kidner
March 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Simon Kidner
Sad, sad news from Pip Hare, some 700 miles south of Australia. Her Poole-based yacht Medallia was dismasted last night. She's physically fine, and she's coaxing her vessel to Oz.
December 16, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Sad, sad news from Pip Hare, some 700 miles south of Australia. Her Poole-based yacht Medallia was dismasted last night. She's physically fine, and she's coaxing her vessel to Oz.