On this #OnePlaceWednesday I'm enjoying an early Christmas present from the British Newspaper Archive: many past editions of the #Shropshire Star. Finding lots for #OnePlaceCharities and also for #OnePlaceEntertainment at Waters Upton - snooker matches, whist drives, fetes and flower shows so far.

For #OnePlaceCharities this #OnePlaceWednesday may I offer you Bathsheba Davenport who left money to poor blind people of New church in Rossendale 'for as long as they remain blind'. No faking it then.

This #Oneplacewednesday involves a field trip 😀. Glad i live near my place as a last minute decision to pop over as I realised I don't have a photo of the Almshouses my subject for this month's blog prompt #oneplacecharities.

The #RNLI a national charity of huge importance in Brims area #NorthWallsAndBrims The lifeboat station established in 1874 is still active today despite the tragic loss of the 8-man crew in 1969. Old shed is now a museum longhopelifeboatmuseum.org #OnePlaceCharities #OnePlaceWednesday #Orkney

November is nearly upon us and with it, a new #OnePlaceStudy blogging and social media prompt – #OnePlaceCharities! Looking a little further ahead, prompts for the first six months of 2025 have been finalised and will be announced in the not too distant future. #OnePlaceWednesday

Extract from criteria for entry to Almshouses (1903) "... They shall be poor widows or spinsters of good character and of not less than 55 years of age..."

From another set of documents from the archives today.

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This is the last #OnePlaceWednesday on which we can post about November’s #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt #OnePlaceCharities – we’d love to hear about any examples of charities or charitable giving that you have found in (or connected with) your #OnePlaceStudy or ancestral place!

#OnePlaceCharities and #OnePlaceWednesday Rather appropriately here is some information about The Independent State of Cuckfield, a big part of village charitable life. cuckfieldcompendium.co.uk/the-independ...

I've not done as much as I hoped for #OnePlaceCharities this month but I have made a start. Lots more documents from the archives to type up when I can bear to look at the screen long enough. The earliest 2 have been done.

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Our #OnePlaceStudy blogging and social media prompt for November is #OnePlaceCharities. Charities were important to many in our Places. Who were the benefactors and what did their charities provide? Who were the recipients? What other charitable giving occurred in our OPS Places?

The 'Zoom Room' is open for pre-conference chat. Several members already there, and we're talking about this month's #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt #OnePlaceCharities and the joys of reading 'secretary hand.' #OPSConf2024

A #OnePlaceWednesday reminder of our blogging and social media prompt #OnePlaceCharities. Tell us about charitable bequests in wills, collections for charities and good causes by churches and others, or public subscriptions to support people and causes, connected to your place or its people.

A #OnePlaceWednesday reminder of our #OnePlaceStudy blogging and social media prompts for the second half of 2024. I hope to finalise the list of prompts for 2025 by the end of the month and would welcome your suggestions—by DM or in replies to this post—for OPS-related themes!