#Imbolc 1st Feb #Feastday of St Brigid who bears same name as the Irish goddess. The Saint is a dairywoman and brewer – performed miracle of turning water into beer. As a child she drank milk from a red eared, white cow.

#MythologyMonday #IrishSaints #WomenSaints #saintfeastday

Proud to have designed the latest book written by Ally & Wendy --

Stories of #Slavery from Bevois Mount

Available now at October Books or contact Bevois Mount History via their facebook page

Historic Southampton Southampton Hidden History
#Historicsouthampton #oldsouthampton #Southampton

21st March 21 is the Kazakh New Year – Nauryz

Наурыз мейрамы құтты болсын! Ақ мол болсын!

Happy Nauryz! Let milk be in abundance!

#springequinox #vernalequinox #nauryz #novruz #kazakhstan

Today's morning snow in #SouthamptonOldCemetery (before it melts away)

#Historicsouthampton
#oldsouthampton
#GothicSpring

Today #saintsfeastday for St Kyneburgha (d 680), 1st Abbess at an Abbey in Castor. Remains translated to Peterborough Abbey c. 972 (now cathedral). Her statue found on exterior of Peterborough Cathedral.

#WomenSaints #SaxonSaints

View #photogrammetry at bit.ly/3IRP4A2

Happy Mongolian New Year!

Tsagaan Sar 2023 is the year of hare.

Photo – a Mongolian Tolai hare (Lepus tolai) in the snow

#tsagaansar #NewYear2023 #hare #tolaihare

#31daysofgraves No. 31 Memento Mori

17th-century skull & crossbones ☠️ on the Jobson family gravestone in the churchyard of Newtyle Church, Angus with #mementomori inscription

#MementomoriMonday #Gothtober Scottish Graveyards

View 3D #photogrammetry at bit.ly/2K91hTn

#31daysofgraves No. 30 Skull

A block found in churchyard at Kirkton of Tealing, Angus. #mementomori ☠️ Skull and cross-bones probably dates very late 16th century.

#ScottishWayofDeath Scottish Graveyards #Gothtober #skullsunday

View 3D #photogrammetry at bit.ly/2pVC9Is

#31daysofgraves No. 29 Cemetery landscape

Autumn in #SouthamptonOldCemetery

#Historicsouthampton
#oldsouthampton
#Gothtober

#31daysofgraves No. 28 Plaque

Wooden plaque hanging in the porch of St Margaret’s Church, East Wellow, Hampshire. Directs the visitor to where the inscription for Florence Nightingale (simply “F. N.”) is located on the Nightingale family memorial in the churchyard.

#31daysofgraves No. 27 Wings

An angel spreading her wings in the evening light of autumn. She stands on top of the grave memorial to George Harris (d. 1936) found in #SouthamptonOldCemetery .

#Historicsouthampton #oldsouthampton #Gothtober

#31daysofgraves No. 26 Colour

Gravestone for Elizabeth Laver (d. 1892) found in #SouthamptonOldCemetery . Decorated with the natural colours of granite in the columns at the sides while the stone has been patinised or stained pink.

#Historicsouthampton #oldsouthampton

#31daysofgraves No. 25 Dark

Gravestone for John Gatehouse (d. 1821) in the churchyard of St John the Baptist Church, Devizes, Wiltshire. Features two dark cherubs cast in iron.

View 3D #photogrammetry at bit.ly/3D3DlLV

#31daysofgraves No. 24 Mistake

St Agatha's churchyard, Easby, North Yorkshire.

Surely it was a grave mistake to employ this stonemason? 🤔

This #mementomori skull lacks the skillful rendition found on other gravestones and tombs in the same churchyard. ☠️

#mementomori monday

#31daysofgraves No. 23 Grieving

Memorial to Rori Travers Mountjoy (d. 1849) in St James Cemetery, Toronto featuring the #neoclassical motif of a woman mourning over an urn.

Canadian Cemetery History #oldtoronto #torontohistory

View #photogrammetry at bit.ly/2klEIRK

#31daysofgraves No. 22 Mason

Arthur Conan Doyle’s grave at All Saints Church, Minstead, #NewForest . He was initiated in the Freemason Phoenix Lodge No. 257 Portsmouth in 1887 but resigned 1889. Re-joined 1902 and was a member until 1911.

#photogrammetry bit.ly/38yOGE8

#31daysofgraves No. 21 Accidental death

Edward Bist, fireman (stoker), who died from injuries in railway accident at Bishopstoke Station (now Eastleigh) in 1870. His gravestone in #SouthamptonOldCemetery depicts the railway engine involved.

#Historicsouthampton #oldsouthampton