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I called into Pickering on the way home from a work trip yesterday, and was lucky to bump into 60163 Tornado - the '21st century steam locomotive', completed in 2008, the first since 1960. The #NYMR never disappoints. #Railways #Steam

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Your regular reminder this photo was taken from #Segedunum. Early entry for #RomanFortThursday

I've spent a very productive and enjoyable day helping review a project with the terrific team at #Whitby Museum (what a gem). To round things off, I'm off spotting all their advertising around town. Start with the low-hanging fruit, then check if they've put any higher up - in pubs, say...

It is worrying to hear of the threat to #JodrellBank. Apart from its scientific contribution, it is a cultural and physical reference point for generations, hereabouts. Less well known, the #LovellTelescope uses turret parts from #FirstWorldWar battleships HMS Revenge & HMS Royal Sovereign. 📷 mine

It's encouraging to see that British Transport Films indulged in an ironic title, occasionally. Bravo! #Canals #InlandWaterways

The Bow Stones (or Bowstones), likely 8th or 9th century cross shafts, on the moor above Disley. The lettering is post mediaeval. Snapshot taken when walking #TheGritstoneTrail, some years ago. #StandingStoneSunday #Cheshire

I'm deeply sorry to hear that Lou Koller has died. I know there isn't a big punk & hardcore scene on Bluesky, but he & #SickOfItAll mean so much to mean that I feel compelled to post here Thinking of Lou's family, in the SOIA & every sense, & hardcore worldwide. Ste More in the alt text.

Good work on BBC Radio 5 Live just now, @drtobydriver.bsky.social. 👏 #ParchMarks #Archaeology

The Roman Ridge (Margary 28b) heading south through the #RiverAire valley. The modern road angles left across the 'island' to cross downstream/east of the historic ford, as in #Castleford. #RomanRoadsFriday #Yorkshire 📷 Google Earth, 2002

The bed of an old lane across Blakemere Moss, in #DelamereForest, emerging from the lake due to the drought. The moss is an #IceAge kettle hole, drained for forestry in the early C19, then cleared and re-flooded in the 1990s. It is an other-worldly spot for a walk. #Cheshire #Walking

Looking SW along the Peckforton Hills in #Cheshire. Beeston Castle/hillfort is the detached crag in the foreground, with Maiden Castle/hillfort at the far end of the range. Locals from the #IronAge and long before would recognise this scene. #HillfortsWednesday 📷 Cambridge Air Photos CUCAP BN20

Castle Howe motte & bailey, commanding the confluence of the #RiverLune and the Birk Beck...and since hemmed in by J38 of the M6 at Old Tebay, which at least illustrates the site's continuing importance on the historic transport network. #MotteMonday #MedievalMonday #Westmorland 📷 Google Maps

Looking up Chapel St. to #Salford Cathedral, on a gloomy July day in 2012. #SteepleSaturday #Cathedrals 📷 My own

Middle #BronzeAge spearhead, found at Petton in #Shropshire (NW of #Shrewsbury, towards Ellesmere) in 1825. What a beauty. #FindsFriday #Museums 📷 My own. Object held at Shrewsbury Museum and Gallery, SHYMS: A/2003/059

The merest glance at that lovely atrium pic sweeps me right back to drinking warm cider in there at a #ManicStreerPreachers gig in 1997. Good photography is time travel.

Having done research on resilience in the sector, much of the concern was about water ingress, humidity, etc. It's plain that #extremeheat is here & now, looking at this data from June. This third July wave will exacerbate things. Serious stuff. heritagepulse.insights-alliance.com/updates/heri...

Heritage in the heat: what June's heatwave meant for the sector - UK Heritage PulseJune’s red weather warning pushed temperatures into the high 30s, and the UK’s heritage sites felt it. Our latest UK… | Continue reading: Heritage in the heat: what June’s heatwave meant for the secto...heritagepulse.insights-alliance.com

More evidence that no one has ever seen the sea at Southport, when even the boats have wheels. #Lancashire

Looking north over the fort at Thorpe Audlin, #Yorkshire, guarding the River Went crossing on the road between Doncaster & Castleford - the A639 crosses at about the same spot, top right. I'll be using it on my #Hastings1960 walk in October. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain 📷 Google Earth, 2017

I'll be visiting (briefly!) Norman Cross on 6 October, on my York-Battle walk. I've almost finished planning the route, which differs from the one 10 years ago in a few details, though not on that section. I'll post it soon. #Hastings960

Another pleasing local mosaic, in this case celebrating various features in and around Hartford: the #RiverWeaver, the railway line, salt mining, St. John's Church, and of course the Roman connection. #MosaicMonday #Cheshire #RomanBritain 📷 My own