Helen Roberts 💙

@The_East_End What those Blue Peter presenters got up to back them, without any safety harnesses was unbelievable! John Noakes also climbed to the top of Nelson's Column and they only put a rope around his waist once he'd reached the top!

For those of you who have a head for heights, workers who are tasked with cleaning the panels, are suspended on bosuns chairs below the clock face on the tower housing Big Ben, in one case, with an open topped omnibus way below... the-east-end.co.uk #london #history #BigBen

A very early start, but so worth it, for the #ANZAC service at Codford St Mary in #Wiltshire this morning at 06:30. Such a peaceful setting and wonderful to see so many people in attendance. @CWGC

Our work up on the chalk Map of Australia, which dates to #WW1 was covered by @BBCWiltshire yesterday. Today we return to commemorate #AnzacDay2026 BBC News - Australian soldiers help restore Wiltshire chalk landmark - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

In 2021, WMT gave a grant to #Penrhynside #WarMemorial in #Wales. As it has been 5 years since works, we would like an up-to-date condition survey and photo to be added to this war memorial record. Can you help? Update at warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/238458

@richardvanemden For us restoring the chalk Map of Australia badge above what was Hurdcott Camp in Wiltshire, it has been pure gold.

@richardvanemden Gunner Ben Edgcumbe, 12th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Western Front 1917-1919. His Granddaughter, Caroline Spowart has transcribed & published all his diary entries & photographs in a book & FB page: facebook.com/share/1AadwJyc… An incredible resource!

My aim was to find 300 photographers of the #GreatWar who used their own cameras and this latest album has finally hit that target. In all 94 images taken by Sir Malcolm Campbell, of racing car world record fame, taken in 1914 on Marne/Aisne. Guess what half the images are of?!!

@NewForestRamble How sickening, I hope they didn't do too much damage.

I became one of those angry people photographed for a local newspaper today. But sadly due to morons who broke in and vandalised East Boldre Village Hall last week in the midst of all the hard work and fundraising the trustees and builders have done to the historic WW1 building.

@authorAPT Great to meet you Andrew and welcome to the @CWGC SW team!

A beautiful day for visiting some of the @CWGC sites in #Bristol today. Wonderful to meet some of the fantastic South-West team, and volunteers, who look after the plots at Arnos Vale, Greenbank and Canford cemeteries.

@richardhosgood @bo66ie29 @ProfPeterDoyle Why have the kiwi's legs and beak grown so long? It looks totally different to the original 1918 version.

@bo66ie29 @ProfPeterDoyle What a wonderful film! We restored the New Zealand equivalent a few weeks ago - the Bulford chalk kiwi. More camouflage than tweed was on display though!

Volunteers carefully restore the giant chalk regimental badges carved into the Wiltshire hillside by WWI soldiers. England, 1963.

@bo66ie29 Great to see this film again, showing @fovantbadges, the Royal Warwickshire badge @suttonbadges and my @ww1australiamap right at the end!

We hold our #AnzacDay2026 service in #Wiltshire. As a small charitable trust, we are grateful to local landowners who take time out of their hectic schedules to supply us with fresh chalk. Thanks Ben! Email ww1australiamap@gmail.com for more info

@TheDoorRestorer Your posts have inspired me to renovate my doors, I will attempt some before and afters soon!

Turning back the clock, by converting this Victorian door, from it's modern makeover of mortice lock and 'fashionable(?)' door furniture, back to it's original arrangement of surface rimlock with more traditional knobs. Repair Restore Re-use Recycle ♻️ #TheDoorRestorer

@Andrewcreed3 @MaryRoseMuseum Totally agree!

@MaryRoseMuseum Fantastic museum

🧵On this day in 1942, twelve British bombers took off on what most crews considered a suicide mission. 1,000 miles into Nazi Germany. In broad daylight. At 50 feet off the ground. Only 5 came back. This is the story of the man who led them 👇

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years installing nest boxes for barn owls in his free time. No grant. No organization behind him. Just Robert Salter, quietly building and mounting over 350 boxes across fields and farms on weekends, before and after work, for three and a half decades. This year was the second-best barn owl breeding season in the region in decades. 304 owlets counted. Last year there were 95. Barn owls have struggled across the UK for generations due to habitat loss, rodenticide poisoning, starvation from agricultural changes that eliminated the field margins where voles live, and collisions with vehicles on roads that cut through their hunting territory. In many parts of England, populations collapsed while nobody was paying much attention. One man paying attention changed the outcome for an entire region. "This bird has lived alongside humans since they settled in this country," Salter told the BBC. "Because of that close relationship, I just feel like we owe it to barn owls to help and maintain their future populations." The conservation story we usually tell involves governments, legislation, and international agreements. Those matter, but so does one person who decided a species deserved better and just kept showing up.

@GreatWarHuts Incredible that the bunks survived in tact all this time! I'm supposing the shelter was very well built, it looks as dry as a bone in there!

A diversion into the Second World War for us this morning. We had the opportunity to save two wooden bunks that had been built into a brick Air Raid Shelter in 1938, just down the road from us in Bury St Edmunds. If householders earned more than £300 per year they had to… 1/

@myresource @redrubyrose_ That's what I thought, but the oystercatcher feathers spoke the loudest. I have another three or four I absolutely need in my life...

@HelenR864 @redrubyrose_ I have just been to the website, absolutely stunning 🌸 I am definitely going to buy… but which 🧐

So pleased with my new velvet clutch bag by Rowena @redrubyrose_ I will treasure it, but also use it lots - not just admire it! I'm sure all my friends will want one...

@CaitlinKellyNYC @redrubyrose_ Oh wow, please send pic when you receive it!

@HelenR864 @redrubyrose_ Nice! I await my velvet laptop case.

@JanoidLCFC @redrubyrose_ It's a thing of beauty and I can't stop looking at it!

@HelenR864 @redrubyrose_ Its gorgeous, like everything Rowena does I have a few pieces from her