Society for One-Place Studies

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www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!

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Our website has profile pages for #OnePlaceStudies registered with us by our members, and the OPS Directory website (not affiliated with us) aims to list all those with an online presence, though I’m not sure when it was last updated. There must be quite a few other studies ‘flying under the radar.’

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Day 11 of #31DaysOfGraves - Humorous

It's almost impossibly not to picture Shaun the Sheep and his flock rampaging through this historic graveyard, fully armed and clad in armour, if visitors fail to heed the warning sign on the gate outside the ruined Kildalton Chapel on the Island of Islay.

A green sign is fixed to a gate with the words "Marauding sheep will be our fate if you do not close this gate" printed on it.The ruined Kildalton Chapel sits in the background, under a sunny sky with trees behind, and in the foreground sits the medieval "Thief's Cross", surrounded by iron railings. The 8th century Kildalton Cross sits in the centre of the image. A large Celtic "wheel cross", with richly carved bosses and interlacing knotwork. Other, later gravestones sit behind and it is surrounded by grass and a stone wall. A medieval graveslab showing a warrior in full West Highland style armour of the 14th-15th century and a large sword in his scabbard has been fixed to the wall for safe-keeping (perhaps from marauding sheep!)
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The totally stunning ceiling in the (equally stunning room) in Bishop West’s Chantry Chapel, Ely Cathedral 😍 The detail and surviving colours are amazing! West was chaplain to Henry VII and a diplomatic envoy to Henry VIII.

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#31DaysofGraves Day 11: Humour
When Chichester diocese refused the epitaph "I told you I was ill" on the gravestone of comedian Spike Milligan (1918-2002), a solution was found in the Irish translation “Dúirt mé leat go mé breoite”.
The home of his Irish grandfather & father is marked in Sligo town.

Spike Milligan's gravestone in St. Thomas the Martyr churchyard, WinchelseaA wall plaque in Sligo town marking the residence of Spike Milligan's father Leo and grandfather Sgt William Milligan, Sligo Artillery
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12 lithographs which captured the grand stations of the North Midland Railway commissioned by architect, Francis Thompson in 1841 who designed the buildings have gone on display at Wingfield station, Derbyshire. 👇
Long-lost artworks of former stations go on display
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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