A pleasure to chat with the curious folk of Dringhouses Local History Group about my research of the forgotten young Victorian women who had once crossed the threshold of York Penitentiary to escape their desperate lives on the mean streets of the City of York.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
October 21, 2026 at 1:22 PM
A pleasure to chat with the curious folk of Dringhouses Local History Group about my research of the forgotten young Victorian women who had once crossed the threshold of York Penitentiary to escape their desperate lives on the mean streets of the City of York.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
Against a backdrop of honey blush stone, nestled within a stone archway and dressed with sofly rusted hinges - an aged chancel door entices the curious.
⛪ The Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul. Scaryingham. Yorkshire. UK.
#ChurchCrawler #ADoorableThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
⛪ The Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul. Scaryingham. Yorkshire. UK.
#ChurchCrawler #ADoorableThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
October 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Against a backdrop of honey blush stone, nestled within a stone archway and dressed with sofly rusted hinges - an aged chancel door entices the curious.
⛪ The Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul. Scaryingham. Yorkshire. UK.
#ChurchCrawler #ADoorableThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
⛪ The Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul. Scaryingham. Yorkshire. UK.
#ChurchCrawler #ADoorableThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
Back among the dead of Scarboro' Town.
🪦 Parish Churchyard of St Mary. Scarboro'. North Yorkshire. UK.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
🪦 Parish Churchyard of St Mary. Scarboro'. North Yorkshire. UK.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
September 26, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Back among the dead of Scarboro' Town.
🪦 Parish Churchyard of St Mary. Scarboro'. North Yorkshire. UK.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
🪦 Parish Churchyard of St Mary. Scarboro'. North Yorkshire. UK.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
Saturday at noontide. Just me alone in an old seaside town railway waiting room surrounded by a poignant display of amazing frocks in swathes of silk and satin, along with a bustle or two and the ghosts of their former wearers.
📍Old Parcels Office Artspace. Scarboro'. UK.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
📍Old Parcels Office Artspace. Scarboro'. UK.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
September 26, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Saturday at noontide. Just me alone in an old seaside town railway waiting room surrounded by a poignant display of amazing frocks in swathes of silk and satin, along with a bustle or two and the ghosts of their former wearers.
📍Old Parcels Office Artspace. Scarboro'. UK.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
📍Old Parcels Office Artspace. Scarboro'. UK.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
Hidden from view behind an old buttress and framed by a unique stone door frame - a charming and beautifully adorned chancel door beckons to the curious.
⛪ The Parish Church of St Oswald. Fulford. York. UK.
#ADoorableThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
⛪ The Parish Church of St Oswald. Fulford. York. UK.
#ADoorableThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
September 24, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Hidden from view behind an old buttress and framed by a unique stone door frame - a charming and beautifully adorned chancel door beckons to the curious.
⛪ The Parish Church of St Oswald. Fulford. York. UK.
#ADoorableThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
⛪ The Parish Church of St Oswald. Fulford. York. UK.
#ADoorableThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
School's OUT?
Within the pages of the SEPTEMBER publication of THE YORKSHIRE DALESMAN - I muse upon the history of educational legislation, the mystery of an ancestor's disappearance from school along with my memories of student life and a return to academia.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
Within the pages of the SEPTEMBER publication of THE YORKSHIRE DALESMAN - I muse upon the history of educational legislation, the mystery of an ancestor's disappearance from school along with my memories of student life and a return to academia.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
September 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
School's OUT?
Within the pages of the SEPTEMBER publication of THE YORKSHIRE DALESMAN - I muse upon the history of educational legislation, the mystery of an ancestor's disappearance from school along with my memories of student life and a return to academia.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
Within the pages of the SEPTEMBER publication of THE YORKSHIRE DALESMAN - I muse upon the history of educational legislation, the mystery of an ancestor's disappearance from school along with my memories of student life and a return to academia.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
I had come in search of a name etched in stone and as the clouds of a September afternoon passed over the Celtic inspired cross dedicated to the Fallen of The Great War - a poignant chapter of my ancestral story was rewritten.
🪦 The Parish of St Peter the Apostle. Kirkthorpe.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
🪦 The Parish of St Peter the Apostle. Kirkthorpe.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
September 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I had come in search of a name etched in stone and as the clouds of a September afternoon passed over the Celtic inspired cross dedicated to the Fallen of The Great War - a poignant chapter of my ancestral story was rewritten.
🪦 The Parish of St Peter the Apostle. Kirkthorpe.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
🪦 The Parish of St Peter the Apostle. Kirkthorpe.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
It was a pleasure to journey to the historic village of Luddenden in West Yorkshire on Wednesday evening to meet with the lovely history folk and chat scandal at the baptismal font, sleuthing a cruel bigamist and unearthing a heartbreaking mystery found with a burial register.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
September 18, 2026 at 12:39 PM
It was a pleasure to journey to the historic village of Luddenden in West Yorkshire on Wednesday evening to meet with the lovely history folk and chat scandal at the baptismal font, sleuthing a cruel bigamist and unearthing a heartbreaking mystery found with a burial register.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
The grave hunter and her apprentice in training.
Having inherited a love of the unquiet gardens of the dead from my maternal grandmother as a little human - 'tis only right to now share some of that love with my granddaughter.
🪦 The Parish of St Stephen. Parnell. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
Having inherited a love of the unquiet gardens of the dead from my maternal grandmother as a little human - 'tis only right to now share some of that love with my granddaughter.
🪦 The Parish of St Stephen. Parnell. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
September 5, 2026 at 3:57 AM
The grave hunter and her apprentice in training.
Having inherited a love of the unquiet gardens of the dead from my maternal grandmother as a little human - 'tis only right to now share some of that love with my granddaughter.
🪦 The Parish of St Stephen. Parnell. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
Having inherited a love of the unquiet gardens of the dead from my maternal grandmother as a little human - 'tis only right to now share some of that love with my granddaughter.
🪦 The Parish of St Stephen. Parnell. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
Back among the unquiet dead of Auckland.
Saturday morrow. The view from my world.
🪦 The Parish of St Stephen. Parnell. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
Saturday morrow. The view from my world.
🪦 The Parish of St Stephen. Parnell. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
September 5, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Back among the unquiet dead of Auckland.
Saturday morrow. The view from my world.
🪦 The Parish of St Stephen. Parnell. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
Saturday morrow. The view from my world.
🪦 The Parish of St Stephen. Parnell. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
No matter how far I may yet wander, there is always time for another graveyard wander.
🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
September 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
No matter how far I may yet wander, there is always time for another graveyard wander.
🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com @graveyardsquirrel.com
A monument rich in symbolism tells of a husband's love for his wife Martha who died in the autumn of 1917 and of his daughter Christina Mary who entered into rest in 1876.
Robert Miller would be reunited with his family in 1931.
🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
Robert Miller would be reunited with his family in 1931.
🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
September 3, 2026 at 1:38 AM
A monument rich in symbolism tells of a husband's love for his wife Martha who died in the autumn of 1917 and of his daughter Christina Mary who entered into rest in 1876.
Robert Miller would be reunited with his family in 1931.
🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
Robert Miller would be reunited with his family in 1931.
🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
Kind followers of my ramblings, I shall be thus shuttering my cluttered den for awhile as I ready my departure for fareaway shores.
If you find yourself wondering as to my exploits in a land far, far away, your curiosity may yet find a modicum of satisfaction at @teebylo.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍️
If you find yourself wondering as to my exploits in a land far, far away, your curiosity may yet find a modicum of satisfaction at @teebylo.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍️
August 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Kind followers of my ramblings, I shall be thus shuttering my cluttered den for awhile as I ready my departure for fareaway shores.
If you find yourself wondering as to my exploits in a land far, far away, your curiosity may yet find a modicum of satisfaction at @teebylo.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍️
If you find yourself wondering as to my exploits in a land far, far away, your curiosity may yet find a modicum of satisfaction at @teebylo.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍️
I make a welcome return to the seaside within the pages of the AUGUST publication of THE DALESMAN MAGAZINE as I muse upon my love of the picturesque fishing village of Staithes, the legacy of the Victorian photographic pioneer Francis Frith and sleuthing those coastal ancestors.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
August 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I make a welcome return to the seaside within the pages of the AUGUST publication of THE DALESMAN MAGAZINE as I muse upon my love of the picturesque fishing village of Staithes, the legacy of the Victorian photographic pioneer Francis Frith and sleuthing those coastal ancestors.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
I make a welcome return to the seaside within the pages of the AUGUST publication of THE DALESMAN MAGAZINE as I muse upon my love of the picturesque fishing village of Staithes, the legacy of the Victorian photographic pioneer Francis Frith and sleuthing those coastal ancestors.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
August 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I make a welcome return to the seaside within the pages of the AUGUST publication of THE DALESMAN MAGAZINE as I muse upon my love of the picturesque fishing village of Staithes, the legacy of the Victorian photographic pioneer Francis Frith and sleuthing those coastal ancestors.
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
It may be a small letter from the year 1874 and penned by the shaky hand of one not long for this earth but it is a letter packed with tantalising genealogical hints about the author's exciting ancestral backstory.
What a day to be alive in the archive!
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @yorkarchive.bsky.social
What a day to be alive in the archive!
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @yorkarchive.bsky.social
August 10, 2026 at 2:50 PM
It may be a small letter from the year 1874 and penned by the shaky hand of one not long for this earth but it is a letter packed with tantalising genealogical hints about the author's exciting ancestral backstory.
What a day to be alive in the archive!
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @yorkarchive.bsky.social
What a day to be alive in the archive!
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @yorkarchive.bsky.social
The ‘who’s who’ of the peerage, a clerical directory for the year 1872 and the epistles of Edward Bouverie Pusey, a leading light of the Oxford Movement and one of my most favourite historical characters.
Oh, to be alive in the archive!
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @uoyborthwick.bsky.social @teebylo.com
Oh, to be alive in the archive!
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @uoyborthwick.bsky.social @teebylo.com
July 28, 2026 at 10:46 AM
The ‘who’s who’ of the peerage, a clerical directory for the year 1872 and the epistles of Edward Bouverie Pusey, a leading light of the Oxford Movement and one of my most favourite historical characters.
Oh, to be alive in the archive!
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @uoyborthwick.bsky.social @teebylo.com
Oh, to be alive in the archive!
#StillSleuthing 🔍 @uoyborthwick.bsky.social @teebylo.com
Why would I photograph my musings about tombstone wanderings in a quiet Yorkshire village in the JUNE publication of THE DALESMAN MAGAZINE against a memorial in the City of York to Dr. John Snow (1813-1858) the pioneer of public health and who proved that cholera is water-borne?
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
June 24, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Why would I photograph my musings about tombstone wanderings in a quiet Yorkshire village in the JUNE publication of THE DALESMAN MAGAZINE against a memorial in the City of York to Dr. John Snow (1813-1858) the pioneer of public health and who proved that cholera is water-borne?
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
A war baby and talented dressmaker, a burns victim and war bride whose life ended shrouded in mystery on this day in the year 1962 with an overdose of prescription medication.
READ Desperately Seeking Clarice at deadsleuth.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍
READ Desperately Seeking Clarice at deadsleuth.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍
June 19, 2026 at 9:01 AM
A war baby and talented dressmaker, a burns victim and war bride whose life ended shrouded in mystery on this day in the year 1962 with an overdose of prescription medication.
READ Desperately Seeking Clarice at deadsleuth.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍
READ Desperately Seeking Clarice at deadsleuth.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍
I have been haunting the archives since my teenage years through Yorkshire and beyond and if you would like THE DEAD SLEUTH to haunt an archive on your behalf - why not drop me a line at tee@deadsleuth.com or wander over to deadsleuth.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
June 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
I have been haunting the archives since my teenage years through Yorkshire and beyond and if you would like THE DEAD SLEUTH to haunt an archive on your behalf - why not drop me a line at tee@deadsleuth.com or wander over to deadsleuth.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍
#StillSleuthing 🔍
It has been such a pleasure to have been a part of York's Dead Good Festival for 2026 and there can be no better way to celebrate the last day of this unique festival than with poetry and music at the beautiful York Cemetery.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 with @teebylo.com and @soquietus.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍 with @teebylo.com and @soquietus.com
May 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
It has been such a pleasure to have been a part of York's Dead Good Festival for 2026 and there can be no better way to celebrate the last day of this unique festival than with poetry and music at the beautiful York Cemetery.
#StillSleuthing 🔍 with @teebylo.com and @soquietus.com
#StillSleuthing 🔍 with @teebylo.com and @soquietus.com
On this day in 1792 Anne Isabella was born at Elemore Hall in County Durham to Sir Ralph Milbanke and his wife the former Judith Noel.
And at Seaham Hall in January 1815, history would take her on a different path after her calamitous marriage to the poet Lord Byron.
#StillSleuthing 🔍️
And at Seaham Hall in January 1815, history would take her on a different path after her calamitous marriage to the poet Lord Byron.
#StillSleuthing 🔍️
May 17, 2026 at 9:08 AM
On this day in 1792 Anne Isabella was born at Elemore Hall in County Durham to Sir Ralph Milbanke and his wife the former Judith Noel.
And at Seaham Hall in January 1815, history would take her on a different path after her calamitous marriage to the poet Lord Byron.
#StillSleuthing 🔍️
And at Seaham Hall in January 1815, history would take her on a different path after her calamitous marriage to the poet Lord Byron.
#StillSleuthing 🔍️
Within the pages of the APRIL publication of The Yorkshire Dalesman Magazine - I muse upon the siren call of serendipty as I sleuth my elusive ancestors who once loved and lived in the historic market town of Malton in North Yorkshire AND a town I once called home.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍
April 20, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Within the pages of the APRIL publication of The Yorkshire Dalesman Magazine - I muse upon the siren call of serendipty as I sleuth my elusive ancestors who once loved and lived in the historic market town of Malton in North Yorkshire AND a town I once called home.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍
What is this Death?
Firebrand. Exile. Political revolutionary. Epistolary genius. Poet.
George Gordon Lord Noel Byron died on April 19 in 1824 during a thunderstorm in Missolonghi Greece from the effects of a fever and probable medical incompetence.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍️
Firebrand. Exile. Political revolutionary. Epistolary genius. Poet.
George Gordon Lord Noel Byron died on April 19 in 1824 during a thunderstorm in Missolonghi Greece from the effects of a fever and probable medical incompetence.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍️
April 19, 2026 at 11:01 AM
What is this Death?
Firebrand. Exile. Political revolutionary. Epistolary genius. Poet.
George Gordon Lord Noel Byron died on April 19 in 1824 during a thunderstorm in Missolonghi Greece from the effects of a fever and probable medical incompetence.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍️
Firebrand. Exile. Political revolutionary. Epistolary genius. Poet.
George Gordon Lord Noel Byron died on April 19 in 1824 during a thunderstorm in Missolonghi Greece from the effects of a fever and probable medical incompetence.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍️
MISTAKE! Can you see it?
One chilly April day in 1965, an attractive young woman was joined in unholy matrimony to a notorious criminal.
And the fallout from this lavishly short union between Frances Shea and Reg Kray would leave a trail of devastation in its wake.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍
One chilly April day in 1965, an attractive young woman was joined in unholy matrimony to a notorious criminal.
And the fallout from this lavishly short union between Frances Shea and Reg Kray would leave a trail of devastation in its wake.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍
April 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
MISTAKE! Can you see it?
One chilly April day in 1965, an attractive young woman was joined in unholy matrimony to a notorious criminal.
And the fallout from this lavishly short union between Frances Shea and Reg Kray would leave a trail of devastation in its wake.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍
One chilly April day in 1965, an attractive young woman was joined in unholy matrimony to a notorious criminal.
And the fallout from this lavishly short union between Frances Shea and Reg Kray would leave a trail of devastation in its wake.
#DeadSleuth #StillSleuthing 🔍