There's fancy! Some prizewinning creations for baking trade and cookery exhibitions in the 1920s-1930s by F Pullinger Ltd, family bakers of Chobham Road, #Woking #Archive30 #ArchiveFoodAndDrink

#ThrowbackThursday– Bank House London St #Chertsey 1995 In medieval times the Tambourne, flowed through present gap b/w Old Town Hall & Bank House to Willow Walk. Bank House built 1780 on site of C17 Greyhound Inn. 1815-1847 was The Chertsey Bank, hence name #localhistory #TBT

Children at the Hugon Road School dancing round a May Pole in 1907. Have you ever danced round a May Pole, or done any other Springtime festivities? You can see the image on the London Picture Archive > ow.ly/hh3b50E9BXS #HBAHTraditions #ExploreArchives #Dancing #MayPole

This #ThrowbackThursday we’ve got the ultimate challenge – a Where In Croydon? art quiz! 🔍 To start you off… where in Croydon is this? The full quiz can be found here: ow.ly/F52u50EeDm0 #MuseumFromHome #Croydon #CroydonArt #MuseumLearning

#GoodMorning lovely people of Twitter! ☺️ Our pals @NTChastleton asked for blossom (okay, it was yesterday but we’re part timers over here!) and their wish is our command! (We know you can barely see the blossom - at least we tried?)

Spring is the time for planting and growing, and school gardens are a great way to get children involved. Here's a lovely photo of instruction in gardening at Bletchingley Council School in 1911 bit.ly/3rZNNMA #HBAHSpring #CommunityGardenWeek

Our True Food and Discover Nourishing book collections are now on display at #Chertseylibrary and are available for reservation from Surrey Libraries UK! To reserve a copy from one of our delicious collections, click here: ow.ly/5TfH50Ejt1j

Have you seen our Marvels of the Month? Every month a member of staff shares one of their favourite archives and explains just why they are so special. The difficulty is that we can never decide which is our favourite! #Archive30 #ArchiveOutreach

Learn about bees and honey whilst making a pop up flying honey bee with our latest family craft video! youtu.be/a9VqKb3Emaw Surrey Libraries UK Surrey Mummy Team

Attention #postgrads and #reseachers: We're holding three free online archives workshops supported by Techne at the end of the month which offer insight into our #research and collections. See the thread below for more info and to register 👇#AcademicTwitter

Dermot O'Leary will be talking London history, landmarks and his brand new book tomorrow morning with MuseumofLondon 🐱 Tune in at 11am over on Facebook ➡️ ow.ly/sJ6Q50EjOtr

If you missed the first in our Radical Voices series last night, inspired by selected recordings from the Jessica and Eric Huntley sound #archives, you can now view it on our YouTube channel - bit.ly/3dHapMW BL Sound Heritage The National Lottery Heritage Fund #saveoursounds #education

11 April 1855. London’s first 6 post boxes were installed. They were rectangular and originally painted green. They were removed within two years after the council received complaints they were unattractive. The first post box in UK was installed in Carlisle (left) in 1853.

#Archive30 #Misconceptions Yes, we are the Map Library at the National Library of Scotland, but that doesn't mean we only have maps of Scotland! Go global: maps.nls.uk/world/ 🌎 Arrowsmith (1790) maps.nls.uk/view/100611144

Our in-person meetings are beginning to return as well as maintaining a zoom session - more info to following

All our meetings for September. Unfortunately, the zoom meeting is for members only. Feel free to attend any in-person meetings, you will be most welcome. Further details of venues can be found here: wsfhs.co.uk/pages/meetings…