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therealcurmudgeon.bsky.social
Thoresby Hall and Park
#Nottinghamshire #heritage #thoresby
February 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
mininglandscapes.bsky.social
Thoresby Vale Country Park, #Edwinstowe, #Nottinghamshire site of the former Thoresby Colliery 1925 to 2015 (Catherine is holidaying down in the English Midlands)
#MiningLandscape #MiningHeritage
July 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
garydrawnsley.bsky.social
Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire #photography #trees
August 26, 2026 at 12:37 PM
garydrawnsley.bsky.social
The Library at Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire, #photography
August 27, 2026 at 4:06 PM
jdmccafferty.bsky.social
16 June 1349: John Thoresby, Bishop of #Worcester, becomes Chancellor of England #otd - in the midst of the Black Death pandemic, of which his predecessor had died. Thoresby himself went on to be Archbishop of York in 1356. (Diliff - the cloisters at Worcester)
June 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
therealcurmudgeon.bsky.social
Thoresby Hall, viewed from behind the pond
#scenic #landscapephotography
#historic #building
February 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
astromikemerri.bsky.social
An afternoon jaunt to the environs of Thoresby Hall to check out the wildlife. 🪶
June 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
signaloftheday.bsky.social
Shirebrook Junction SJ 6 with the route set for 0Z25 Derby RTC Network Rail to Thoresby Colliery Jcn (Submitted by Alan Hughes)
#SignalOfTheDay
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
leedstours.bsky.social
Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), son of John Thoresby, a woollen cloth merchant & keen antiquarian who started a museum collection at his Kirkgate house.
Ralph went to Leeds Grammar School, added to museum, researched & wrote.
www.thoresby.org.uk/index.html - historical society of Leeds founded 1889
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October 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
sammichstitches.bsky.social
Good morning, friends!

🧶For week 28 of #CrochetAway (the crochet prompt game inspired by #ShowMeYourKnits where we connect with others via crocheted goodies) - show off your baby items!

Blankets, loveys, tiny hats, booties, etc 🍼👶

This is my monkey lovey
(Pattern by Thoresby Cottage)
Crochet monkey lovey
August 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Seated Self Portrait, Shown in a Cheval Dressing Mirror” by Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont - Oil on canvas / 1952 - Thoresby Courtyard (Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire, England) #WomenInArt #artText #Pierrepont #ThoresbyCourtyard #SelfPortrait #BlueskyArt #WomenArtists #WomensArt #WomanArtist
In a warmly lit yellow room, an oval cheval mirror with red wood frame dominates the centre of the painting. Within its tall frame, we see the artist’s reflection depicting a mature light-skinned woman with short softly waved fair hair, seated and turned toward us. She wears a blue housecoat over a skirt, a white cloth draped across her lap, a painter’s palette held in one hand and a brush poised in her other hand, as if caught mid-stroke. Behind her reflection is a brass or iron bedstead, glimpsed through the mirror’s narrow vertical. Outside the mirror, to the left, a small wooden table holds a patterned mug and papers; to the right, a green chaise has a small brown dog sitting upright, ears pricked, and facing off canvas to the right. Books crowd a shelf, framed pictures line the walls, and a red floor anchors the intimate, lived-in studio-bedroom. Painted late in a career that stretched more than seventy-five years, this self-portrait shows artist Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont, aka Countess Manvers, as a working artist rather than as an aristocrat. Trained in Paris, where she exhibited at the Salon and Société Nationale des Beaux Arts before returning to Britain, she became known for portraits and detailed interior views of Cliffe Castle and later Thoresby Hall. Here, the mirror becomes both literal tool and metaphor as it frames a woman who insists on being seen at work, surrounded by books, paintings, and her dog as an alert companion witness. Created in 1952, after her move to Thoresby Park, the painting belongs to the Pierrepont Collection of more than 600 of her works now housed at Thoresby Courtyard, preserving the self-image of an artist who documented her domestic and estate worlds with affectionate precision.
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
bobfry.bsky.social
#SundayStonework
St George’s, Cam.
A photograph of an elaborately carved pinnacle depicting two heads, thought to be Edward III & Jonathan Thoresby (Bishop of Worcester), key figures in the history of the church.
March 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
astromikemerri.bsky.social
Christmas is about to officially begin, courtesy of Nottingham Harmonic Choir and Thoresby Colliery Band.
December 21, 2024 at 4:50 PM
lsangha.bsky.social
I spent quite a few years reading Leeds dissenter and antiquarian Ralph Thoresby's diaries a few years back, and got to know him quite well. I honestly don't think there could be a more Thoresby Anecdote than this one related by Mark Jenner:

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'In January 1721 the Leeds antiquary, Ralph Thoresby, sat up in bed reading Dr Mead's new treatise on the plague. It gave him bad dreams and convinced him that he was exactly the kind of person most susceptible to the disease'.
March 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
knithacker.bsky.social
Crochet A Sloth Curtain Tie-Back ... Smart AND Fun! 👉 knithacker.com/2019/08/croc... - designed by Caitie Moore of Thoresby Cottage #crochet #home #diy
September 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
lsangha.bsky.social
Some Christmas advice from Ralph Thoresby, late 17th early 18th-century pious diarist and antiquarian:

'let not this Festival which we pretend to set apart to solemnise the Incarnation of our blessed Redeemer be perverted by Intemperance.' ⛪🍺🍗
December 17, 2024 at 7:48 AM
handhyorkshire.bsky.social
exploited by employers and landlords.' (Thoresby Society) Two hundred years later 4.45 million children are living in a household of relative low income after housing costs are deducted - a government standard measure for poverty. Image courtesy of Adobe images. Stats DWP
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
digitalman.bsky.social
Here’s the Conqueror (and young fan) outside the Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry museum at Thoresby
June 16, 2026 at 7:39 AM
uk-roadsworks-news.bsky.social
Roadworks report for #Louth, Fri 9 Oct, 2026:

CLOSED: High Holme Road, Aswell Street, Church Lane, Fen Lane, Mablethorpe Road, Manby Road, Monks Dyke Road, Sea Dyke Way, Thoresby Bridge, Thoresby Road
LANE CLOSED: Lincoln Road

+13 more: CheapFuelNearMe.uk/street-manager/louth/
October 9, 2026 at 6:06 AM
sammichstitches.bsky.social
Week 10 of #CrochetAway - Animals! Show me something that is an animal, includes animals, or even is *for* animals

Pattern: Monkey Lovey
by Caitie Moore (Thoresby Cottage)

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Baby lovey in brown with a white/yellow stripe at the bottom and a monkey head and arms on top. The monkey is smiling
April 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
leedstours.bsky.social
5.30pm Sunday 19 October
Service marking 300th anniversary of death of Ralph Thoresby, historian

Music by composers Thoresby would have heard: Tomkins, Purcell, Handel

www.thoresby.org.uk/index.html - historical society of Leeds founded 1889
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October 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
uk-roadsworks-news.bsky.social
Roadworks report for #Louth, Thu 8 Oct, 2026:

CLOSED: High Holme Road, Aswell Street, Church Lane, Fen Lane, Mablethorpe Road, Manby Road, Monks Dyke Road, Sea Dyke Way, Thoresby Bridge, Thoresby Road
LANE CLOSED: Lincoln Road

+15 more: CheapFuelNearMe.uk/street-manager/louth/
October 8, 2026 at 6:06 AM
emarkwindle.bsky.social
Morning all.
Working in the Thoresby Room today.
#writingcommunity #booksky
August 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
hekatehades.bsky.social
Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire.
May 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM