Frances Bevan
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Join me on a walk through Radnor Street Cemetery and meet the people who built Swindon.
Swindon, Wiltshire
Joined September 2011
‘Churchyards and cemeteries are scenes not only calculated to improve the morals and the taste, and by their botanical riches to cultivate the intellect, but they serve as historical records.’.John Claudius Loudon: ‘Principles of Landscape-Gardening applied to Public Cemeteries.
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RT @womensart1: Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #Wome….
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RT @jpwarchaeology: As a result of a recent podcast appearance in which I spoke for an hour on the subject of mediaeval toilets, I have jus….
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RT @ElizStJohn: 💫🌹📖THE GODMOTHER'S SECRET🌹📖💫.The enduring mystery of the lost princes in the tower. "A gripping account filled with treache….
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Howse’s Coppice was all that remained of ancient woodland that had once stood on Swindon’s doorstep before the arrival of industrialisation and the railways.
radnorstreetcemetery.blog
For nearly a hundred years the cemetery was well maintained, the graves cared for by families, the gardens by groundsmen. And then the cemetery closed to new burials and families did not visit so o…
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RT @RAGriggsauthor: Yellow flowers amidst a riot of colours in the walled garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll in 1911 for at Lindisfarne Cas….
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RT @ElizStJohn: "Vivid. Heartrending. Superb. You admire their tenacity, their wit and their intelligence. These women are real people whos….
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RT @sixteenthCgirl: I'm delighted to announce that we are returning with a new SIX-part series on historic royal scandals for @Channel4. h….
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RT @womensart1: The beaded jewellery created by Maasai women artisans, Tanzania, integral to Maasai culture #WomensArt .
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RT @ST0NEHENGE: Sunrise at Stonehenge today (5th August) was at 5.38am, sunset is at 8.46pm ☁️
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RT @EHChalus: If you can help restore the library, please support 'Books for Spellow Lane' to help repair the library and replenish books f….
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Our city is a sad place at the minute, much like the rest of the country. But it makes me heartb… Alex McCormick needs your support for Books for Spellow Lane
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RT @HWarlow: Good Afternoon.Olivia Kemp English illustrator .This is amazing. It must take her hours using one of those pens .What talent….
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RT @JudyCorbett: For all the dismal news - where are all the butterflies, bees, wasps this year? - here’s a bit of good news: second brood….
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RT @ElizStJohn: 🇺🇸FREE on #KindleUnlimited🇺🇸.If you knew the fate of the Princes in the Tower, would you tell? Or forever keep the secret?….
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The re-imagined story ….We managed to find seats all together in one carriage, although it was a bit of a squeeze and Fred almost sat on Annie’s hat. Aunt Charlotte would have loved all this.
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RT @Ravilious1942: Belle Tout Lighthouse, Eric Ravilious, 1939. The lighthouse is located overlooking Beachy Head in East #Sussex on the @S….
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RT @ElizStJohn: 📖💔FREE NOVELETTE💔📖. "Deliciously manipulative. Barbara is the girl you love to hate.". #Historical….
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RT @RAGriggsauthor: I was so entranced by the hooded tomb of Robert Wynn, builder of Plas Mawr, (d. 1598) in St Mary’s Conwy, I didn’t get….
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