#OnePlaceWednesday – 20 Aug 2025
From the Society for One-Place Studies, Bluesky handle @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
#OnePlaceWednesday is a weekly social media chat, taking place primarily on Bluesky, when we share posts about one-place studies – and invite others to do the same – using the hashtag. Here are highlights from August 20th, 2025. (For a round-up of posts from last week, see #OnePlaceWednesday – 13 Aug 2025.)
The Image used to launch #OnePlaceWednesday this week, featuring Horse Pond in the parish of Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England, is by the Society’s Social Media Coordinator Steve Jackson, who conducts the Fawsley One-Place Study.
Our member Lilian Magill has registered the Kootingal-Moonbi General Cemetery One-Place Study🔗 in New South Wales, #Australia, taking the number of registered #OnePlaceStudies to 425! Visit our Registered Studies🔗 page to begin your exploration of our members’ study places. #OnePlaceWednesday
Lilian also undertakes* the One-Place Study of Mummel Catholic Cemetery in New South Wales.
* Is that the right word for carrying out a One-Place Study of a cemetery? 🤔😉
I went to the local library yesterday to further my research on my Puschkinallee OPS, and I found a book on opposition to the Nazis from 1933 to 1945 in Treptow and Köpenick. Nothing about our house or the people in it, but I found out who Karl Kunger was. #OPSWednesday
This post developed into a four-post thread – click on the butterfly icon above (at the bottom right corner of the embedded post)to view it on Bluesky! And to find out more about house in Berlin and some of the people who lived there, visit the Puschkinallee 5, Alt-Treptow, Berlin One Place Study page at WikiTree.
Yesterday we admired an artwork in a hotel in Orford, the village adjoining my #OnePlaceStudy of #Sudbourne, only to find it’s by Grayson Perry, whose exhibition we’re going to see at The Wallace Collection next month - Wallace being a former landowner of Sudbourne & Orford! #OnePlaceWednesday
In addition to her Sudbourne One-Place Study, Liz also conducts a Street Study OPS (of St Ronan’s Avenue, Southsea) and a One-Place Study of an institution, the Temple Lodge Home for Inebriate Women, Torquay.
Records created by overseers of the poor can be of value for #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory and #OnePlaceStudies in England & Wales. In New Accession: Overseers of the Poor Records🔗, Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social provides a useful overview of these records. #OnePlaceWednesday
Have you used Overseers of the Poor records for your One-Place Study? If you have, tell us more by clicking on the butterfly icon above to view the above post on Bluesky, and posting a reply!
🇩🇪 #OnePlaceWednesday showcase: Kotten, Ostpreußen Explore the lives & stories of residents in this community through collaborative genealogy research! 📍https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Space:Kotten,_Ostpreußen_One_Place_Study #OnePlaceStudy #CollaborativeGenealogy
The Kotten, Ostpreußen One Place Study is one of many studies using WikiTree as a platform for sharing research on the Web.
Interested in researching #HouseHistory in #Norfolk? #OnePlaceWednesday
A great way to learn the basics of House History research!
🧵Bit late for #OnePlaceFolklore, but I’m doing a copper shadow puppet making workshop this Saturday & wanted a #OnePlaceStudy folklore character. The nearest bit of folklore to #Sudbourne I could find was the wildman (NOT merman!) of #Orford #OnePlaceWednesday
Another post that starts a thread! Click on the butterfly icon above to view it on Bluesky.
Our member Heather Etteridge has added four new blog posts to her #OnePlaceStudy website for Great Ellingham🔗 in Norfolk so far this month, from “John Whittred buys Brooke’s Farm” to “Hannah Carter and her Illegitimate Children.” Check them out on #OnePlaceWednesday!
If you have ancestral connections with Great Ellingham in Norfolk, England, do explore Heather’s OPS website to find out more about the history of the village, its properties and its people!
This is very Kin Edar adjacent (literally and figuratively) - will be adding it to my list of books to look out for. #OnePlaceWednesday
Kin Edar was a house in the old village of Strandtown, in what is now East Belfast. Learn more at Allie’s website, Kin Edar: A One Place Study.
Members! The deadline for submissions to September’s issue of our #OnePlaceStudies journal Destinations is August 30th—themes this time are boot & shoe makers, and OPS people with links of any kind to places of worship, from bellringers to benefactors, and from clergy to cleaners. #OnePlaceWednesday
Our journal Destinations is written by our members, for our members. If you wish to submit something for the September 2025 edition, the clock is ticking! The email address of Destinations editor Colin Ashworth can be found on the Our Committee page of our website.
John Robinson, who played Professor Bernard Quatermass in the 1955 BBC Television serial, lived in Aldbourne from the early 1940s until 1946. His wife Kathleen was the granddaughter of Charles Smith 1818-1886, Maltster and Farmer in South Street #OnePlaceWednesday www.newspapers.com/article/even...
To find out more about this Wiltshire village, take a look at the Aldbourne Archive!
Are there any wooden grave markers in your #OnePlaceStudy? There is one in #Sudbourne, & although the inscription is long gone, I’ve worked out who’s buried there - more on that another time. This wooden grave marker is in the nearby village of #Orford #OnePlaceWednesday #Woodensday
Wooden grave markers in your One-Place Study? You know what to do – click on the butterfly icon above to view Liz’s post on Bluesky, and add a reply!
For Heritage Open Day on Saturday 20 Sep 2025, Herbert Gallery & Museum in #Coventry is offering Architecture & House History at the Archives🔗, an opportunity to explore the architecture and #HouseHistory resources of Coventry Archives with a talk and a guided tour. #OnePlaceWednesday
Another event featuring House History, this time in Coventry in the English Midlands!
The #Sudbourne Estate & its #OnePlaceLandowners were integral to villagers’ lives. Many would’ve been employed on the Estate. Sudbourne Hall was demolished in 1953, but a few buildings remain - bothy buildings, stables & seed house. Some are private homes, others artists studios #OnePlaceWednesday
That’s another #OnePlaceWednesday been and gone. We hope to see you on Bluesky next Wednesday for more wonderful One-Place Study posts and chat!
Interested in finding out more about us or about One-Place Studies, downloading a handy Guide to One-Place Studies in PDF format, checking out the 400+ One-Place Studies registered with us by our members, or becoming a member yourself and joining our supportive worldwide community of ‘one-placers’? It’s all on our website!
