'Ey up! Today is Yorkshire Day! And if you are celebrating - 'av a good 'un. #YorkshireDay

Cemeteries? Graveyards? I LOVE them! For if I'm not sleuthing an elusive ancestor, unearthing and scribing another life lost to history, or haunting the archives - I could be wandering among some tombstones somewhere. See YOU on the other side? #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com with @teebylo.com

Felicitations and welcome to my tiny corner of Bluesky in which I chat archive sleuthing, book worming, otherworldly questing and other such ramblings including my wanderings through unquiet graveyards as I hunt the forgotten dead while powered on hot water and delicious cake. #StillSleuthing 🔍

Against a backdrop of leaning gravestones and enveloped with ivy in colours of lime and sage - a round topped stone celebrates the life of a beloved husband, one Charles Hawker who went to sleep in the year 1876. ⚰ York Cemetery. York. UK. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍

Despite the ravages of time, a decorative stone celebrating the life of one JOSEPH KIRK who died in the year 1815 in his 53th year stands defiant. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. York. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍

Nestled under a tree abundant in leaf and coated in a blanket of moss, a decorative chest tomb of pale stone blackened in history awaits a visit from the curious. ⚰ Bunhills Cemetery. London. UK. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍

Against a backdrop of characterful foliage, enveloped the greenest ivy and topped with an urn draped in a stone cloth denotes the grave of one JOHN WALLACE who died at the age of 63 in 1859. ⚰ Glasgow Necropolis. Glasgow. Scotland. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍

Nestled against a backdrop of lush hedges and shielded by trees - this beautiful monument is the work of sculptor John Throp (1820-1889) and commemorates Miles Moulson, a stonemason who died in 1856 aged 48. ⚰ Undercliffe Cemetery. Bradford. UK. #GraveyardSquirrel #TombstoneTuesday

As the afternoon sun plays hide and seek - I'm enjoying the view among the bluebells and creeping buttercups in one of my favourite gardens of the dead. 🪦 York Cemetery. York. UK. #StillSleuthing 🔍 with @teebylo.com and @deadsleuth.com

On the day before her 68th birthday and with her beloved granddaughter Anne Isabella Noel King by her side - the estranged spouse of the poet, the Lady Byron died on May 16 in the year 1860. ⚰ Kensal Green Cemetery. London. UK. #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com

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‘What is this Death? – a quiet of the heart?' Firebrand. Exile. Political revolutionary. Epistolary genius. Poet. Lord Byron died on April 19 in 1824 during a thunderstorm in Missolonghi Greece from the effects of a fever and probable medical incompetence. #StillSleuthing 🔍️ @deadsleuth.com

"This Rogue is theirs, and we the honeft Folks" Epigram on Turpin (1739) Executed on this day, the myth of the highwayman and iconic Essex boy Richard Turpin remains entangled, along with his bodily remains within the chronicles of the City of York. Requiesce in pace. #StillSleuthing 🔍

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter 🐣 #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #CravingChocolate #StillSleuthing 🔍

From Churchyard to Spa Town? Within the pages of the MARCH publication of The Dalesman Magazine I unearth the poignant story of a Yorkshire lass from Harrogate. ⚰ Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com

Under the palest of blue skies and wrapped up against a biting wind - I've managed to squeeze in a moment or three for a little church crawling and tombstone sleuthing before lunch en famille. 💒 The Parish Church of St Mary Bishophill Junior. York. UK. #StillSleuthing 🔍 @graveyardsquirrel.com

Captured under an insipid winter sky and wet grass - the beautifully decorated memorial to one Gertrude Agnes Ware, her youngest son Kenneth and her infant daughter Aileen Teresa. ⚰ Parish of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍

A headstone decorated with an urn draped in extravagant stone fabric tells of the fate of the teenaged Albert Cregson who was drowned at sea in the year 1860. ⚰ Wakefield Cemetery. Sugar Lane. Wakefield. West Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍

As if in mid air and captured by the @deadsleuth.com - this cloaked angel with eyes downcast adorns the monument to eight year old Thomas Clarkson who entered into spirit in the year 1872. ⚰ Wakefield Cemetery. Sugar Lane. Wakefield. West Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍

Shielded by tangled ivy and dried ferns - a weeping angel adorns a small pale monument to one Agnes Jane Allison who entered into spirit in the year 1871. ⚰ Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍

Aged stone in hues of a soft grey palette captured against the dying of a January day. ⛪ The Parish of All Saints. Rudston. Driffield. UK. #DeadSleuth #ChurchCrawler #StillSleuthing 🔍 with @graveyardsquirrel.com

A memorial now lost to the ravages of time tells us of the heartbreaking story of infants Christopher and Henry Perkins who died a day apart and were buried together one July day in the year 1810. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍

A tombstone now decorated in beautifully worn stone perched under a bright winter sky one winter afternoon. ⚰ Parish Church of St Mary. Whitby. North Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍

Shielded by imposing wrought iron bars under a blanket of palm leaves and foliage - the WHITSON family monument hides from the curious. ⚰ Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍

Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas. 🎄 #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #YorkyHistoryLass #FamilyHistorySleuth #StillSleuthing with @deadsleuth.com 🔍

Monday afternoon. The view from my world. From my garden to their forever home. A little ancestral grave festive gift and tidy up for my maternal 2 x Greats. 🪦 York Cemetery. York. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #YorkyHistoryLass #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com

Excellent day showing my fellow sleuth & genealogist @graveyardsquirrel.com around some of the 9 acres of Wakefield Cemetery 🪦

'At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.' ~ Laurence Binyon #ArmisticeDay #LestWeForget