Friends of Croome

Time to reserve your places for this year’s festive quiz. Here what someone said last year “A big thank you to everyone involved in the Christmas Quiz. It’s unmissable light-hearted convivial fun, and if you’ve never taken part you’re missing a treat!” friendsofcroome.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/…

Check out this upcoming talk (on Wednesday 6 August) about the Earls of Coventry’s palatial family home in the heart of Georgian London friendsofcroome.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/…

We have a brand new way of becoming a member of the @friendsofcroome and booking a place on one of our talks or visits friendsofcroome.digitickets.co.uk/tickets

@DaveThroup Are we heading towards a 1975/1976 type scenario?

Last 11 weeks of rainfall. That’s a lot of red! Last widespread wet weather was over 2 months ago. Exceptionally low river flows widely across northern and central England.

@WorcsWT A spiral of tree creepers.

@WorcsWT Wryneck?

@YstradHistory @BooksTeaFilms Timsbury

Thomas Purnell married Bessie Leakey of WHERE in the parish church of the same WHERE??? Somewhere in Somerset, but I can't work out what it says?

@WorcsWT Mistle thrush

@GeorgianLords @HistParl The Oliver Reed of his day

@HistParl In summer 1663 Sedley and Lord Buckhurst engaged in a "drunken and licentious frolic on the balcony of the Cock tavern which shocked Samuel Pepys" among others. Sedley was fined 2,000 marks and got a week in gaol for his trouble. #HistParl #twitterstorians

Died #OTD 1701, Charles Sedley, MP for New Romney for much of the late 17th c. Known for his wit, Sedley gained a reputation for debauchery in his early years, but after entering Parliament in 1668 he lived a quieter life. Read about his career here: ow.ly/HV5x50FGZ1T

@cummingsradio @TheHistoryPress @GlosHistFest @cheltfestivals @BookStroud @visitchelt @VisitCotswolds And Steve Windwood and John Entwistle

Rock N Roll map of #Gloucestershire includes Brian Jones, Kylie, Charlie Watts and many more. I think Holst should be included? ⁦@GlosHistFest⁩ ⁦@cheltfestivals⁩ ⁦@BookStroud⁩ ⁦@TheHistoryPress⁩ ⁦@visitchelt⁩ ⁦@VisitCotswolds⁩

@RealEmirHan John Lennon

What celebrity death saddened you the most? 😢 I’ll start:

@WaddleOfWorc @CrownGateWorc @drpgroup @myworcester @WorcesterBID @WorcAmbassadors @wildinart @StRichardsHosp @bbchw @worcesternews @VisitWorcs Hi Is the app available please?

Hoiho here is crossing his flippers for the #EURO2024 final.   Penguins know all about teamwork, huddling together to look out for each other. We’d love our 80-strong team to waddle in on 22 July on the back of a victory tonight.   Check out this football-themed sneak peek! 👀🐧

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@nickfshort @heatherwastie Some fine examples in #Pershore Worcestershire

In England, we sometimes see these corrugated brick fences. And as curious as it may seem, this shape uses fewer bricks than a straight wall. They're known as crin­kle-cran­kle walls, and many fine examples survive in #Suffolk.

@PeterLeadbetter We are visiting in May. Hoping for kinder weather…

"Whitby Pier" On a dramatic cold and wwindy day, it felt strangely safe to walk on this magnificent structure

@sharonmc52 @nationaltrust Thank you, will pass on your lovely comment to our volunteers

@nationaltrust Croome is my favourite and the lovely ladies of @FriendsofCroome who look after it. I always manage to find a bargain 😊

Sunday afternoons are made for browsing bookshelves. Do you have a favourite second-hand bookshop?

@Rich_Clifford @NTCroome Starlink satellite train

Something odd going on over @NTCroome tonight. Any ideas?

@nationaltrust That’s the fabulous @NTCroome

This #GivingTuesday, we want to thank our members, volunteers, supporters and donors for helping us care for nature, beauty, and history. We couldn't do all this without you: brnw.ch/21wEP7n Photo: John Hubble

@ExploreThePast The 11th Earl of Coventry was once Personnel Manager here.

Heenan & Froude whose HQ moved to Worcester in 1903 made all sorts of mechanical items. Apart from #BlackpoolTower they are most well-known for their dynamometers & rolling roads as shown by this drawing of a #EYASmall dynamometer at Ref 705:411 10826.31.viii #ExploreYourArchive