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Erin Lloyd Jones

The female Archaeologist from Wales with a passion for the British Isles

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I am a photo fanatic with a real passion for exploring and discovering some weird and wonderful things.

I am a photo fanatic with a real passion for exploring and discovering some weird and wonderful things.

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WOW! Thank you so much @peers_the_jeweller for not

WOW! Thank you so much @peers_the_jeweller for not only repairing my engagement ring, but making it and my wedding ring look like new again!! 💍 I love them!!

Stunning taster menu at the simply gorgeous George

Stunning taster menu at the simply gorgeous George at Alstonefield, a former coaching inn, with family. Even got a happy birthday treat (which ended up all over Poppy's face!) and my sister made me this amazing cake! (I love a hot tub 🥰). Alstonefield, just a couple of miles from where we were staying, is such a pretty little village and was once a thriving medieval market centre. Behind the pub there used to be a wool market and just nearby there was a button factory making silk covered buttons!

Next stop on my birthday trip was a steam train ri

Next stop on my birthday trip was a steam train ride along Rudyard Lake. The lake was built as a reservoir to supply the nearby canal in 1797. It is where Rudyard Kipling's parents first met, hence his name! #funfacts
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#history #rudyard #rudyardlake #rudyardkipling #rudyardrailway #staffordshire #staffs #didyouknow

Waaay back in August I had the absolute pleasure o

Waaay back in August I had the absolute pleasure of Poppy starting to walk on my birthday!! We spent the morning at soft play in Ruthin before lunch and more play at the wonderful @imagination_lane_nantwich - we all had an absolute blast and I didn't stop laughing all day. Especially at this car video. It just makes me howl 🤣 what a brilliant start to an amazing birthday weekend ❤

Perfect Friday night?! #dragraceUK #openfire #jamm

Perfect Friday night?! #dragraceUK #openfire #jammyredroo #homesweethome

Happy 18 month birthday to this crazy, dancing, si

Happy 18 month birthday to this crazy, dancing, singing, postman pat-mad, dinosaur loving, cat- and dog-obsessed, caring, entertaining little Popstar ⭐🦕🦖🐶🐱

While we were in York we just HAD to pop to see Ri

While we were in York we just HAD to pop to see Richard III (who I've always believed has had a rough old time of it. Usually depicted as a villain - I'm looking at you Shakespeare - known to have been painted with exaggerated physical impairments, and here he toys with his ring. What does that symbolise? Then he turns up under a car park a few years ago, poor thing!), some dinosaurs (obvs 🦖🦣) and the truly spectacular Star Carr headdresses - these were preserved due to waterlogged conditions and are made from red deer skulls and antler. Originally 21 were found in the 1950s but more have been discovered through excavation since. They date back 11,000 years. ELEVEN THOUSAND. Mesolithic people were on fleek 😍🤴
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#york #medieval #history #presenter #didyouknow #england #oldeengland #yorkshire #yorkshiremuseum #richardiii #richardofyork #starcarr #mesolithic #fleek #archaeology

We also love a boat tour ⛵ Poppy here channeling

We also love a boat tour ⛵ Poppy here channeling her inner Kate Winslet, and she LOVED waving at all of the other passing boats. Some more snaps from an awesome family holiday in such a wonderful historic city ❤
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#york #medieval #history #presenter #didyouknow #england #oldeengland #yorkshire #boat #boattrip #yorkminster

We love an open-top bus tour in the Lloyd Jones ho

We love an open-top bus tour in the Lloyd Jones household! Brilliant to explore more of York, including the city walls - the longest medieval town walls in England, and the most complete! They also have the most incredible fortified gateways/posterns/'bars' including the Walmgate Bar which still has its 14th Century barbican!
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#york #medieval #history #presenter #didyouknow #england #oldeengland #yorkshire #citywalls #gatehouse #archaeology #townwalls #yorkwalls #bus #bustour #opentopbus #redbus #redbustour #hoponhopoff #yorkminster

We ate (and had a tipple or two 🤭) in some fant

We ate (and had a tipple or two 🤭) in some fantastic places in York with some brilliant history, including York's first purpose-built cinema! The most interesting was probably @theperkypeacockyork in a 14th Century tower overlooking the river. It was once connected to another tower on the opposite bank by a chain, and collected tolls from people entering the city by river! It also housed a mortuary in the 1800s... But I promise it is delightful now!!
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#york #medieval #history #presenter #didyouknow #england #oldeengland #harrypotter #enchanted #magic #hogsmeade #magical #yorkshire #citywalls #townwalls #holeinthewand #butterbeer #perkypeacock #rivertoll #view #riverbank #cinema #cosyclub #covermakers #ropemerchant #jimmys #yorkminster #mealwithaview #starinnthecity

We were very lucky to stay at The Grand for our fa

We were very lucky to stay at The Grand for our family staycation in York - a beautiful Georgian 'Palace of Business', HQ of the North Eastern Railway Company, one of the richest companies in Britain at the time. Now a lovely hotel and spa 😬 #grandolddukeofyork

Visited the Shambles a few times when we were in Y

Visited the Shambles a few times when we were in York. It is so magical! Although it looks like something straight out of Harry Potter, it actually one of the (maybe the very) best preserved medieval streets in the world. The word Shambles comes from the Anglo-Saxon word 'shammles' meaning 'shelves'. The street was home to butchers shops and homes - the buildings we see today dating to the 14th and 15th century - the (window) shelves & slabs would have displayed the meat out on the street. And the overhanging upper-floors? These were a common feature in medieval Britain as you paid tax on the size of the plot/footprint. Build outwards at upper levels and you got more space for free! Keep scrolling for a video of Poppy bopping away to the music playing in a delightful restaurant we ate at in the Shambles called Sapori. She's got the moves 💃🕺😆
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#shambles #york #sapori #medieval #history #presenter #didyouknow #england #oldeengland #harrypotter #diagonalley #magic #hogsmeade #magical #yorkshire

We stopped off here on our way up to York this sum

We stopped off here on our way up to York this summer, expecting a bit of culture and nice views... and came across a beach!! We forget how lucky we are to have real ones so close to home! Heaton Park is home to this impressive Grecian-style facade, once part of the old Manchester town hall and dates back to 1822. It was reassembled at Heaton Park in 1912, after the town hall had been relocated, around the same time as the pretty boating lake opened. This summer the park was also home to the funfare, where Poppy's daddy and I managed to win her a ball (now a firm favorite in the Lloyd Jones household) and a cuddly toy before our family adventure continued north ❤
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#heatonpark #heaton #manchester #history #oldtownhall #manchestertownhall #townhall #victorian #boatinglake #beach #citybeach #grecian #greek #architecture #conservation #funfair

One of the prettiest roads in England - and most a

One of the prettiest roads in England - and most awe-inspiring. Winnats Pass is actually a fossilised seascape! The steep sided ravine, which has attracted tourists for hundreds of years, was once a channel between coral reefs (around 340 million years ago 🤯) deep beneath the sea. The name Winnats comes from the words 'windy gates' as an entrance into the Hope Valley. There are large underground cave systems, caverns and mine shafts below, and lots of fossils and rare plants above 🌿
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#cheshire #peakdistrict #peakdistrictnationalpark #winnatspass #geology #landscape #stunning #views #pass #road #coralreef #mining #caves # caving #tourism #fossils #ravine #prettyroad #history #england #nationaltrust #windy

Another day, another tin coffee hut - this time a

Another day, another tin coffee hut - this time a church! Poppy and I happened across this tiny church with a sign outside saying 'stop for coffee!', so we did! This tin tabernacle (which literally means tent or hut from the Latin) was built from a flat-pack kit in 1892 for £150. The vestry was an optional extra! It originally had a little spire which housed the bell, since removed and the bell now sits above the porch. Tabernacles were really popular in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, not long after corrugated iron was first invented, usually bought as a kit from catalogues, and relatively cheap. A different sort of Iron Age to the one I usually talk about! And amazing cakes from a wonderful band of volunteers there. Well worth a visit 😋
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#cheshire #peakdistrict #peakdistrictnationalpark #adlington #stjohnsadlington #tinhut #coffee #cafe #ironage #victorian #corrugatediron #industrialrevolution #history #england #hiddengem

Popped to Lyme Park so Poppy could meet our lovely

Popped to Lyme Park so Poppy could meet our lovely friends Steph & Ian for the first time!! Got a great view of the red deer in the deer park 🦌 They're thought to have been here for 600 years - descendents of the wild deer of Macclesfield Forest, once a Royal hunting park which covered land Lyme Park now covers, enclosed in the 1400's. The original 'The Cage', which you can see in the background, was built in the 1460's to watch the hunt, and was rebuilt as a hunting/banqueting lodge tower in the 1730's 🏰
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#cheshire #peakdistrict #peakdistrictnationalpark #history #england #hiddengem #lymepark #disley #medieval #deer #reddeer #deerpark #huntinglodge #thecage #englishhistory #britain #macclesfield #macclesfieldforest

This visit was a bit of a labour of love - I got a

This visit was a bit of a labour of love - I got absolutely soaked and almost blown over 🤣 But worth the journey up the bumpy, dead-end track to see the Bowstones. Thought to be the shafts of two Saxon crosses (their original cross heads may be the ones at nearby Lyme Park), their decoration and carvings suggest they are at least 1000 years old.
Heavily decorated freestanding crosses were found often in the 8th-10th centuries across northern England, but what makes this site interesting is there are two, both set in a single stone base.
They also include post-medieval lettering carved into them.
They are named the Bow Stones as local legend has it that Robin Hood and his gang used to come here to re-string their bows 🏹
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#cheshire #peakdistrict #peakdistrictnationalpark #history #england #hiddengem #archaeology #saxon #standingstone #cross #celticcross #robinhood #disley #medieval #bowstones #lymepark #englishhistory #britain

Poppy and I recently visited the Tin Hut Coffee Ta

Poppy and I recently visited the Tin Hut Coffee Tavern in the tiny village of Pott Shrigley. It was originally built as a reading room and lending library for the community by Eleanor Shrigley in 1887 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. After WWI, it was opened as a coffee tavern, hosting concerts and community performances.
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#cheshire #peakdistrict #peakdistrictnationalpark #shrigley #pottshrigley #shrigleyhall #tinhut #coffeetavern #coffee #cafe #tinhutcoffeetavern #history #wwi #teadance #england #hiddengem

What a wonderful day we had at @greenacresanimalpa

What a wonderful day we had at @greenacresanimalpark with lovely @josekiwi29, plus a terrific tractor ride with so many animals! We all loved it ❤ 🚜🐮🦙🐎🐏🐐

We went on a bear hunt for Poppy's friend Olivia's

We went on a bear hunt for Poppy's friend Olivia's 1st birthday and it was totally pawsome! 🐻 🧸 🐾

Stratford Upon Avon, with a trip to the Enchanted

Stratford Upon Avon, with a trip to the Enchanted Treasure Trail with dragons (the child has no fear 👋🐲🥰), unicorns 🦄, castles 🏰 and the forbidden forest (with v. handy ball pit 😆)⚡followed by Pimm's on the river 🍹

What a gorgeous afternoon spent with the Weatherma

What a gorgeous afternoon spent with the Weatherman Walking crew very close to home, plus finally got to meet the extremely knowledgeable and talented @lizziedalywild, Poppy got to see her mate Derek again, and we all met up with my mum and aunty too! And what a view along the River Dee! IncreDEEble!

2 years difference... ❤🎈

2 years difference... ❤🎈

Lower Slaughter and Bourton on the Water. Plus a g

Lower Slaughter and Bourton on the Water. Plus a giant baby 😆 The name Lower 'Slaughter' stems from the Old English name for a wet land - 'slough' or 'slothre' (Old English for muddy!). The Model Village is a 1/9th scale 1930s replica of Bourton on the Water. Poppy loved stomping round after a nap around the majority of nearby Birdland 😅

The Porch House, Stow on the Wold. The oldest pub

The Porch House, Stow on the Wold. The oldest pub in England - timbers here have been dated to the 10th Century! Aethelmar the Stout, a Cornish Saxon Duke, ordered for it to be built as a hostel for pilgrims. It was redesigned in 1615, when the porch was added

Cosy Cotswolds ❤ including the magical Yew Tree

Cosy Cotswolds ❤ including the magical Yew Tree Door at St Michael's Church at Stow-on-the-World, said to have inspired JRR Tolkien’s Elven Doors of Durin. Find out more about places with mystical yew trees by watching my Yew-tube video 😉 https://youtu.be/ojPmUJOfngA

Charingworth Manor - our gorgeous hotel for our tr

Charingworth Manor - our gorgeous hotel for our trip to the Cotswolds earlier this summer. Dating back to the 14th century, it is mentioned in Domesday Book and T.S Elliot was once a frequent houseguest! We also met a cat 🐈

Poppy LOVES to dance!! This was her first in-perso

Poppy LOVES to dance!! This was her first in-person concert a few weeks ago and she loved it! @oldtimesailors are definitely her favourite band. We are so lucky they've been with us in the Caerwys Community and bring so much joy to us all. And what a great location for this at @penbedwluxuryyurt 🥰 Ahoy!

A recent family day trip to Anglesey. Gorgeous lun

A recent family day trip to Anglesey. Gorgeous lunch and superb view from @gazellehotelmenaibridge then a trip to the beach at Lligwy 🏖 How lucky are we to live so close to this 🥰

Some piccies from a recent trip to Cardiff and the

Some piccies from a recent trip to Cardiff and the Valleys, filming the next series of BBC Wales's #WeathermanWalking

The patchwork bridge at Llangollen 🌁 So pleased

The patchwork bridge at Llangollen 🌁 So pleased we got to see this while we were in Llan for the wedding ❤ and what a great view from @riverbanc_llangollen the morning after the night before! The Patchwork Bridge was created to mark the return of the International Eisteddfod, and included a piece by my mum's WI group! The artwork was entitled 'Bridges not Walls' and included over 100 individually handcrafted squares of fabric by both the local community and people from around the globe, showcasing and celebrating traditional crafts ❤
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#llangollen #patchwork #patchworkbridge #eisteddfod #internationaleisteddfod #eisteddfod2021 #denbighshire #northwales #wales #cymru #gog #coffee #whataview #riverbanc #whitewater #bridge #bridgesnotwalls #art #crafts #traditionalcraft

Last ones from me of Lucy & Dean's wedding, includ

Last ones from me of Lucy & Dean's wedding, including some really lovely ones taken by Dean's sister. But not including the one I took of Sian falling off the swing 🤣 What a joyful day, and such an honour to be involved 🥰🍾🥂❤

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