York June 2025 Newsletter

A glorious visit to St Martins Church in Birmingham today to view the wonderful carvings depicting the last days of Jesus on earth - from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem to the traitors kiss. ⁦@TheIronRoom⁩ ⁦@OurTownStory⁩ ⁦@GuildOneName⁩ ⁦

RT @cspencer1508: British Women’s fashion over the last millennium and a half….

Great talk at YAYAs on Wednesday last - all about Rev Charles Wellbeloved. I visited his grave at the Unitarian chapel in St Saviourgate some time ago. Church burials had been banned in York by that time but the Council agreed to allow this one. ⁦@RoyalHistSoc⁩ ⁦

I was stumbling around in the archives yesterday and came across this cheeky chap advertising distemper in York in 1925. I thought distemper was a disease that animals got! ⁦🤔