Birstall Snowscape, west Yorkshire, by Robert Henry Lee (1915–2007).
January 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Birstall Snowscape, west Yorkshire, by Robert Henry Lee (1915–2007).
Completed. St James the Great church in Birstall
July 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Completed. St James the Great church in Birstall
Appropriately for Yorkshire Day, Joseph Priestley of Birstall, West Riding, is credited with discovering oxygen on this day 1774, building on earlier work by Antoine Lavoisier and Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
August 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Appropriately for Yorkshire Day, Joseph Priestley of Birstall, West Riding, is credited with discovering oxygen on this day 1774, building on earlier work by Antoine Lavoisier and Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
A reminder ...
"10 years ago today, Jo Cox MP died after being shot and stabbed multiple times by a right wing fantasist in the street in the village of Birstall, where she had been due to hold a constituency surgery"
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"10 years ago today, Jo Cox MP died after being shot and stabbed multiple times by a right wing fantasist in the street in the village of Birstall, where she had been due to hold a constituency surgery"
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July 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A reminder ...
"10 years ago today, Jo Cox MP died after being shot and stabbed multiple times by a right wing fantasist in the street in the village of Birstall, where she had been due to hold a constituency surgery"
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via The UK Against Hate
"10 years ago today, Jo Cox MP died after being shot and stabbed multiple times by a right wing fantasist in the street in the village of Birstall, where she had been due to hold a constituency surgery"
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via The UK Against Hate
#PostboxSaturday Birstall, Leicestershire
September 19, 2026 at 8:40 AM
#PostboxSaturday Birstall, Leicestershire
Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.
June 16, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.
Today is the anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist eight years ago on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. She was a supporter of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.
June 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Today is the anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist eight years ago on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. She was a supporter of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.
There is little or nothing left of the Benedictine Birstall or Burstal priory which was situated on the Humber Estuary, south of Skeffling. Established by Stephen, Earl of Albemarle as a Cell of the Abbey of Aumale , in Normandy. Kirkstall Abbey took possession of Birstall
April 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There is little or nothing left of the Benedictine Birstall or Burstal priory which was situated on the Humber Estuary, south of Skeffling. Established by Stephen, Earl of Albemarle as a Cell of the Abbey of Aumale , in Normandy. Kirkstall Abbey took possession of Birstall
PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.
June 16, 2026 at 7:16 AM
PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.
A work by Peter Lazlo Peri, one of a number by him commissioned by Stuart Mason, Director of Education for Leicestershire, including Two Children Calling A Dog Atom Boy, and Birstall, 1960.
Went to Scraptoft Valley Primary for @bikeabilityuk.bsky.social for @rideleicester.bsky.social and walked round a corner and saw this Bas Relief, fifties estate, Netherhall, fifties brick primary, of course they’d be country dancing. Any ideas of the artist, #ArtSky @municipaldreams.bsky.social
June 19, 2026 at 8:34 AM
A work by Peter Lazlo Peri, one of a number by him commissioned by Stuart Mason, Director of Education for Leicestershire, including Two Children Calling A Dog Atom Boy, and Birstall, 1960.
The gleaming green machine - Deltic D9015 Tulyar at Birstall on the Great Central Railway today. She sounds as good as she looks. @jedkendray.bsky.social @pickgs.bsky.social @gerbil1978.bsky.social @rangercaps66.bsky.social
September 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The gleaming green machine - Deltic D9015 Tulyar at Birstall on the Great Central Railway today. She sounds as good as she looks. @jedkendray.bsky.social @pickgs.bsky.social @gerbil1978.bsky.social @rangercaps66.bsky.social
Birstall, West Yorks, England!
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Birstall, West Yorks, England!
Appropriately for #YorkshireDay, Joseph Priestley of Birstall, West Riding, is credited with discovering oxygen #OTD 1774, building on earlier work by Antoine Lavoisier and Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
August 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Appropriately for #YorkshireDay, Joseph Priestley of Birstall, West Riding, is credited with discovering oxygen #OTD 1774, building on earlier work by Antoine Lavoisier and Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
Chemist, natural philosopher and liberal political theorist Joseph Priestley was born on this day 1733 (on the Julian calendar) in Birstall, west Yorkshire. Credited with discovering oxygen by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide.
March 13, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Chemist, natural philosopher and liberal political theorist Joseph Priestley was born on this day 1733 (on the Julian calendar) in Birstall, west Yorkshire. Credited with discovering oxygen by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide.
After catching the 27 from Quorn to Leicester North yesterday morning, it was time for the main event of the day for me, front droplight behind D123/45125 for the run to Loughborough Central. Former Belgrave and Birstall station seen in the background as we prepared to depart Leicester. #GCR 4/9/26
September 5, 2026 at 7:15 AM
After catching the 27 from Quorn to Leicester North yesterday morning, it was time for the main event of the day for me, front droplight behind D123/45125 for the run to Loughborough Central. Former Belgrave and Birstall station seen in the background as we prepared to depart Leicester. #GCR 4/9/26
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wenige Tage vor dem Brexit Referendum - wurde in Birstall, West Yorkshire die Labour Abgeordnete Jo Cox ermordet.
Während seiner Tat schrie der rechtsextreme Täter: "Britain first".
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wenige Tage vor dem Brexit Referendum - wurde in Birstall, West Yorkshire die Labour Abgeordnete Jo Cox ermordet.
Während seiner Tat schrie der rechtsextreme Täter: "Britain first".
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June 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧 Am 16.Juni 2016 -
wenige Tage vor dem Brexit Referendum - wurde in Birstall, West Yorkshire die Labour Abgeordnete Jo Cox ermordet.
Während seiner Tat schrie der rechtsextreme Täter: "Britain first".
🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧
wenige Tage vor dem Brexit Referendum - wurde in Birstall, West Yorkshire die Labour Abgeordnete Jo Cox ermordet.
Während seiner Tat schrie der rechtsextreme Täter: "Britain first".
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Sadly, nothing remains of Birstall Priory today. Whatever ruins did survive were consumed by the ever-encroaching tide in the 20th century.
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October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sadly, nothing remains of Birstall Priory today. Whatever ruins did survive were consumed by the ever-encroaching tide in the 20th century.
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Birstall shopping park, April 2022 #photography
November 29, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Birstall shopping park, April 2022 #photography
Make do and mend comes to mind when researching the building of the Elizabethan Oakwell Hall in Birstall, just down the road from me. Comments like 'Oakwell represents a typical local compromise - a mix of local Yorkshire building and fashionable gentry style'
April 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Make do and mend comes to mind when researching the building of the Elizabethan Oakwell Hall in Birstall, just down the road from me. Comments like 'Oakwell represents a typical local compromise - a mix of local Yorkshire building and fashionable gentry style'
Today is the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Jo Cox. Her sister Kim, who has since become the MP in Batley and Spen, talks about Jo's legacy and the need to find more common ground today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kim Leadbeater urges country to find 'common ground' 10 years after Jo Cox murder
Spen Valley MP Kim Leadbeater reflects a decade after her sister was murdered in Birstall.
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June 16, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Today is the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Jo Cox. Her sister Kim, who has since become the MP in Batley and Spen, talks about Jo's legacy and the need to find more common ground today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chemist, natural philosopher and liberal political theorist Joseph Priestley was born #OTD 1733 (on the Julian calendar) in Birstall, west Yorkshire. Credited with discovering oxygen by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide.
March 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Chemist, natural philosopher and liberal political theorist Joseph Priestley was born #OTD 1733 (on the Julian calendar) in Birstall, west Yorkshire. Credited with discovering oxygen by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide.
But in Skeffling, the fabric of Birstall Priory lives on. With its stones repurposed in the walls of a rural parish church, the remains of this lost monastic site do, at least, endure — even if they are hidden in plain sight.
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October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
But in Skeffling, the fabric of Birstall Priory lives on. With its stones repurposed in the walls of a rural parish church, the remains of this lost monastic site do, at least, endure — even if they are hidden in plain sight.
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It is thought that some of these cobblestones may have originally formed part of the fabric of the now long-lost Birstall Priory — a nearby Benedictine monastery.
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October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It is thought that some of these cobblestones may have originally formed part of the fabric of the now long-lost Birstall Priory — a nearby Benedictine monastery.
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A bit of digiscoped video this morning of the Long-tailed Duck at Watermead CP Birstall section, Leicester @lrosbirds.bsky.social #ukbirding #vc55birds #leicesterbirds #longtailedduck
February 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
A bit of digiscoped video this morning of the Long-tailed Duck at Watermead CP Birstall section, Leicester @lrosbirds.bsky.social #ukbirding #vc55birds #leicesterbirds #longtailedduck
Yesterday I went to Birstall in Leicestershire to visit Syston Model Railway Society's Birstall Model Railway Exhibition and the SMRC's clubroom as well.
Nice small Model Railway Exhibition and a few photos I've taken and the video will be posted later on today
Nice small Model Railway Exhibition and a few photos I've taken and the video will be posted later on today
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Yesterday I went to Birstall in Leicestershire to visit Syston Model Railway Society's Birstall Model Railway Exhibition and the SMRC's clubroom as well.
Nice small Model Railway Exhibition and a few photos I've taken and the video will be posted later on today
Nice small Model Railway Exhibition and a few photos I've taken and the video will be posted later on today