For #CastleSaturday here’s Corfe Castle as depicted in the Model Village. My 📷 taken last month

For #TilesonTuesday here’s a collection from Castle Acre Priory, now in the care of EH. My 📷

For #FeatheredFriday here’s a friendly, and hopeful, robin. My 📷

For #PubSignThursday I offer the rather good Grainstore Brewery in Oakham. My 📷

For #CastleSaturday here’s a rather misty Corfe Castle emerging behind ‘Britain’s Most Photographed Pub’ The Greyhound. My 📷 taken a couple of weeks ago

For #FeatheredFriday I offer an oystercatcher nesting in a plant pot. My 📷 taken on Brownsea Island

For #BluePlaqueTuesday here’s a stash of spare or displaced blue plaques kept at the EH stores. My 📷

For #MedievalMonday here’s Bushmead Priory (or, at least, its refectory) where I was a guide last Saturday. My 📷s

For #StainedGlassSunday here’s a bit of a mosaic or collage of stained and painted glass from Bushmead Priory, where I was a guide yesterday. Property in care of EH, my 📷

For #FindsFriday here’s a Roman pottery sherd from Wroxeter incised with a star, somewhat mysteriously. My 📷 object in care of EH

For #WednesdayGreen #WildlifeWednesday and #WetlandsWednesday here’s that wonderful oasis of calm that is Camley Street Natural Park, near Kings Cross. My 📷 taken yesterday

Some time ago for #BluePlaqueTuesday I posted an unlikely example of Karl Marx in Margate. Well here’s one of his mate, Engels, in Primrose Hill. My 📷s

Curators talk… that’ll be me, tomorrow!

St Albans Museums@stalbansmuseums.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What’s on this May at St Albans Museums ✨ St Albans Museum + Gallery 🌱 A Growing City ✏️ Draw with Rob 💭 7 May Back in the Day Café 🛍️ 9 May Shop Small Market 🎲 17 May Battle Games Verulamium Museum 🧸 22 May Tots Tales 🔍 26–29 May Archaeology for Families 📜 27 May Curators Talk

Last week on #FindsFriday I posted some painted Roman wall plaster from the 2024 excavations at Wroxeter, now in the care of EH. Well, here’s some more. My 📷s

For #abandonedWednesday I offer Bottoms Mill, just outside of Holmfirth in W. Yorkshire. The chimney, added in 1911, now seems mostly held together by vegetation. My 📷

For #TowerTuesday here’s a striking piece of Victorian architecture. It’s part of the water pumping mechanism of Lockwood reservoir, situated in the lovely Walthamstow wetlands. My 📷

For #FindsFriday here are pieces of painted Roman wall plaster from the 2024 excavations at Wroxeter. My 📷s, objects in care of EH

For #AdoorableThursday here’s the dovecote (including door) in Avebury, some of the materials being sarsen stones. My 📷

For #WetlandsWednesday here’s the wonderful Walthamstow Wetlands nature reserve, visited yesterday. My 📷

For #BluePlaqueTuesday here’s an interestingly different style. The house it was attached to, New Little Holland House, was demolished in 1964. My 📷 object in care of EH

For #RomanFortThursday here’s the reconstructed wall and footprint of buildings of Mamucium in the Castlefield area of Manchester. My 📷s taken this week

For #WednesdayGreen here’s some sheep 🐑 in the very green ditch and bank of the henge at Avebury. My 📷

Here’s another view of West Kennet for #TombTuesday. My 📷

For #MosaicMonday I offer the site sign from #RSPB Fairburn Ings. My 📷

For #StandingStoneSunday here’s a couple of views from Avebury. My 📷s

For #RomanSiteSaturday here’s another Roman roof tile from Wroxeter, I think with cat 🐈‍⬛ prints 🐾 but happy to be corrected

For #FindsFriday here’s a carved chalk plaque from Grimes Graves, late Neolithic. My 📷 object in care of EH

Can’t resist promoting this again… not too many hard questions please!

St Albans Museums@stalbansmuseums.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Explore belief, tolerance and religion in Roman‑era Verulamium with exhibition co‑curators Anthony Divey & Sara Rumberg. Talk followed by Q&A. 📅 27 May | 7pm 📍 Verulamium Museum And good news! Our 'Religion in Verulamium: Tolerance and Fusion?' display has been extended until 28 June 2026.

For #HelmetThursday there are plenty on display at the British Museum’s Samurai exhibition but I’ll go for this one in the final ‘influences’ section

For #WednesdayGreen how about the splash of green that is Silbury Hill, taken from West Kennet? My 📷