It's the turn of #MysteriousArchives today! Here at Shropshire Archives we have many books within our Local Studies Library which focus on the many legends and myths of the county!
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Neon lights of the Great Northern Railway beam from the tower at Amiens St (Connolly Station), Dublin; during An Tóstal festival of 1953. #Light , the final railway archive picture for week's #ExploreYourArchives .💡🚂 #irishrailarchives
Can you guess the date of this colour photograph featuring 'classic' vehicles in the Wellmeadow, Blairgowrie? We *think* the image is from the early 1960s and features a Fordson E83W and an Austin A55. Then again.
📷 Local & Family History, AK Bell Library
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Day 5 of #ExploreyourArchives and a big shout out to all the unsung archive employees whose actions in hauling, cleaning, cataloguing and presenting make primary research possible! #ActionArchives Masks and gloves and dust coats!!!
#Dudley Cattle Market, due to publicly open on 5 Oct 1869 on land between King Street, Flood Street & Alma Place, adjoining the Garden Walk, was formerly used as a ‘Fat Pig Show Yard’.
[PO/689] 28 Nov 1870, advertised the market rules & rents
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On #WindrushDay we want to share photos of students of Liverpool John Moores University's historic F L Calder College of Domestic Science.
Although these images were left without names, our registers show the large number who migrated to Liverpool for education 1948 onwards. #archives #exploreyourarchives
Postcard of the Day: #OnThisDay 19 June 1921 and the Blairgowrie and Rattray War Memorial is unveiled.
📷 Local & Family History, AK Bell Library
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Archivists make #FriendlyArchives . I had the pleasure of working as a historian in UofGlasgowASC for 3 years. I learned a lot about how archives work from patient colleagues who are still good friends. It made me a better researcher. #ExploreYourArchives
Frederick York undertook a photo survey of British Museum in 1875. The Front Hall and Egyptian Sculpture Gallery haven’t changed too much but the Grenville Library is now a shop! #britishmuseum #photoarchives #archives #historicbuildings #exploreyourarchives
First-aid car on Bord na Móna railways; an ambulance carriage of 1870's vintage; and a converted CIÉ ambulance bus (for Knock pilgrims) for today's #ExploreYourArchives #health theme. #irishrailarchives
Busy morning for our archivist Robin who’s been out collecting archives. Look what he brought back! Could there be a more #Sheffield item than this? A volume encased in stainless steel 💪🏽found in a cupboard at Crookes Social Club #sheffieldissuper #exploreyourarchives 🙌🏽
Did you know that war goat hair jewelry was a thing?? Well, you do now! This is a locket containing the hair of the Northamptonshire regimental goat mascot from WWI. From the collection of the Imperial War Museums. #HairyArchives #ExploreYourArchives
Songs, dances, speeches, recitations, and even a hurling match - the Sinn Féin Aeridheacht (fair) on 14 October 1917 had it all! #Celebration from the Ua Buachalla Collection MU Special Collections & Archives Maynooth University Library #ExploreYourArchives #digitalarchives ARA Ireland Explore Your Archive
The Post Mortem Examinations and Case Books tell the #UntoldStories of working-class individuals in London who may not be represented elsewhere. The information provided in the volumes almost serves to bring the patients back to life. #Archive30 #Exploreyourarchives
In spring 2022 we hope to re-open at Marlowe House, less than 200 yards from Sidcup train station, not just with a new reading room for our archives, photographs and books (our objects are staying put in Woolwich), but also a display space. #ExploreYourArchives #NewYear2022
Postcard of the Day: The Dam and Fish Ladder, Pitlochry, c.1950.
📷 Local & Family History, AK Bell Library
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Day 5- #Archive30 The RDS Library & Archives Team have been hard at work this year developing content for èxhibitions from our digital collections so that you can enjoy #ArchivesFromHome . Visit: digitalarchive.rds.ie/exhibits/show/… ARA Ireland ARA Scotland #archives #ExploreYourArchives
#Archive30 | #Animals „Wo ist das 5. Schwein?“ fragt dieses Flugblatt aus der NS-Zeit - zusammengefaltet erkennt man es. (Fundstück aus einem Nachlass) #ExploreYourArchives #Linz