🧵The Green Lady of Firbeck Hall is one of South Yorkshire's best-known ghost stories. According to local legend, the recently restored and repurposed 16th-century mansion near Maltby and Rotherham is haunted by a mysterious woman dressed in green. She is said to be the daughter of a former owner,

I thought I would stay with Mount Grace Priory. This shows the standing walls along the cloister range, including the individual monks' cells (22 and 23) and the adjacent refectory wall, with the church tower in the background. Unlike communal monastic orders, Carthusian

🧵I long for the return of political orators like Tony Benn. Days before politics was conducted for 24-hour news cycles and social media where sound bites dominate catering for extremely low attention spans. Benn tended to explain why he believed in something drawing on history, political

This image is useful in placing the late 14th century Mount Grace Priory, the best preserved of the nine medieval Carthusian houses (charterhouses) into the landscape and into a timeline . In the 17th century, part of the priory was remodelled as a mansion which in the early

Delighted that I will be at this year's Seaside Heritage Network "Big Day Out" in September. This year it takes place in Scarborough, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Thomasin Farrer's discovery of the spa waters. The rest as they say is history. #Scarborough400 #Heritage #BesidetheSeaside

I posted this thread on 5 August last year, the anniversary of Newcomen's death. It is a fascinating piece of engineering history and heritage.

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The Newcomen Beam Engine at Elsecar Heritage Centre is believed to be the oldest steam engine in the world still in its original location. A Scheduled Ancient Monument of international importance, it stands at the site of the former New Colliery. The colliery was sunk in 1794, with

🧵Along the Gypsey Race in North Yorkshire lie the grass-covered earthworks of Mowthorpe Deserted Medieval Village, recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. The site's distinctive layout was studied by the pioneering economic and landscape historian Maurice Beresford, who identified

🧵 6 posts. Plantation wealth left a lasting mark on Yorkshire through its grand country houses and estates. Profits from Caribbean plantations enabled wealthy British families to buy land, build homes, and secure social and political influence, embedding colonial wealth into the county's landscape.

On this day in 1928, Haworth Parsonage opened to the public as the Bronte Parsonage Museum, having been bought by Sir James Roberts and presented to the Bronte Society. The Bronte Museum had operated for the previous 33 years in the upper floor of the Yorkshire Penny Bank at the top of Main Street

🧵By 1890 Whitby had begun to evolve into a resort, Baines Directory of that year listed 168 lodging house keepers, 54 hotels and inns as well as pleasure boat owners, fossil and mineral shops and other accoutrements of any self respecting resorts. The town was also a favourite of

The Guillotine Lock in Todmorden, situated on the Rochdale Canal, represents a combination of industrial necessity and engineering ingenuity. Officially known as Lock 19 it was modified in the 1920s because the nearby road bridge was widened causing builders to innovate.

🧵Central to Ripon Cathedral is the magnificent Great East Window, a towering medieval masterpiece revived in the 18th century. The tracery dates to the 13th century and the glass was themed on the Trinity. The original glass was largely damaged in the civil war. In the 18th century it was

The entrance canopy on the medieval Jacob's Well, the church hall of Holy Trinity, Micklegate in York is a rare, highly ornate 15th-century wooden projection. It was originally from the demolished Old Wheatsheaf Inn on Davygate. It was added to the Grade I listed building in the early 20th century

This colourful lithograph, Yorkshire Coast, British Railways (North Eastern Region), by John Bee, c.1950. captures the picturesque fishing village of Staithes. Boats rest on Roxby Beck, and cottages cluster beneath the surrounding cliffs, showcasing the vintage charm of the Yorkshire coast.

Yorkshire Miners' Galas emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as powerful annual expressions of community pride, union solidarity, and working-class culture across the region's vast coalfields. Organised by miners' unions like the Yorkshire Mineworkers' Association (YMWA), these

Edna Lumb (1931–1992) was a Leeds-born artist celebrated for her paintings and prints of Britain's industrial landscapes and engineering. After studying at Leeds College of Art, she became a full-time artist in 1964, travelling across the UK, Europe and West Africa in search

I missed this the other day. The remains of what is believed to be a Roman port have been dug up on land behind a woman's home. Archaeologists said they had found evidence of 12 buildings beneath a paddock close to the Humber estuary, in Brough, East Yorkshire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remains of Roman port found behind woman's home in East Yorkshire

The remains have been discovered beneath a paddock close to the Humber estuary in Brough.

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🧵The Hedon Magdalen Fair was one of East Yorkshire’s oldest traditions. Established around 1162 by a royal charter from King Henry II, this historic gathering took place annually on 2 August. It was held northeast of the town on Magdalen Hill, a site originally home to a medieval

🧵A print from the fresco 'Plucking the Red & White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens' by Henry Payne (1868 - 1940) illustrating Shakespeare's fictional account of Richard of York challenging Edmund Beaufort, to choose between the White Rose of House York and the Red Rose of House Lancaster

🧵 Maggie's Yorkshire in Leeds is an award winning, beautifully designed centre that provides free support for people affected by cancer. Created by Heatherwick Studio and opened in 2020 at St James's University Hospital, the building is designed to

Here’s to Yorkshire’s stunning landscapes, rich history, legendary tales, and to the people, vibrant and diverse - to those who shaped its past and those writing its next chapter. All toasted with a proper cup of Yorkshire tea. Happy Yorkshire Day and thank you for your support. #YorkshireDay

A nostalgic favourite gets a fresh twist in this easy Black Forest-inspired traybake from my friend, baker and presenter Meryl White @grandmaabson.bsky.social Perfect for summer celebrations yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/food...

Fizz, farewell and black forest gateau

A nostalgic favourite gets a fresh twist in this easy Black Forest-inspired traybake, perfect for summer celebrations

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A classic 1970s view looking over Scarborough's South Bay looking towards the castle headland. I had forgotten all about the Oriel Cricket Ground in the foreground. It sat just off Oriel Crescent and Esplanade Plaza, on the cliffs above the South Bay.

🧵Historic England has published two new reports highlighting the economic value of heritage. The research shows that historic buildings support local economic growth by attracting tourism, boosting property values and encouraging investment. It also finds that archaeology, heritage

🧵Although Victoria Cave near Settle below yielded animal bones and early artifacts from glacial periods the earliest securely dated signs of habitation in the Yorkshire Dales belong to the Mesolithic period, when post-glacial hunter-gatherers exploited the region’s upland lakes, such as Malham

🧵More about Pontefract: During the English Civil War, John Grant was the gunner in charge of the parliamentary artillery at Pontefract Castle. He was described as an "expert siege gunner" and commanded a "great iron gunne" at the Battle of Chequerfield in March 1645. When Colonel

The Golden Waking Golden fields beneath the summer sky, Where hedgerows stitch the hills nearby. The wheat keeps its silent watch, As light and shadow softly cross. The land remembers seasons gone, And whispers hope with every dawn. Image: Wheat before the harvest Allan Harris CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Wakefield Museums & Castles has launched its first-ever Crowdfunder to help bring a rare Roman brooch, discovered in Hemsworth, into Wakefield’s permanent museum collection. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hemsworth-...

A Roman Brooch for Hemsworth – Be Part of History

Help us bring a rare Roman brooch from Hemsworth into Wakefield’s collection, support its display, interpretation and community engagement

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🧵Medieval records show that Byland Abbey established a grange at Bentley Grange, Emley by the late 12th century, with evidence suggesting agriculture, iron forging and smelting taking place By the 15th century ironworking had ceased, and after the Dissolution in 1538 the site was recorded as

🧵The buildings in Swales Yard, behind 5–9 Corn Market in Pontefract comprise a range of two-storey timber-framed structures. Dendrochronology has provided a date of 1609 for the timber although their origins could be earlier. Originally constructed as commercial buildings serving