Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡

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Fellow of Royal Historical Society Sport Historian, Genealogist Member of Few Forgotten Women Team Editor: Playing Pasts. Chair: FHSofCheshire I came, I saw, I researched 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh girl living abroad in Cheshire Oh and cows - love cows 🐄

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 13d

Finnie settling in and getting to know Florence and Daisy while I'm relegated to watching the #CommonwealthGames on the TV Now I know what all the moaning is about - less chat more action!!!

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 13d

#FinnieAndMe leaving #Glasgow and heading home. Had a blast at the #CommonwealthGames Bring on the Europeans in a couple of weeks

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 14d

Last night at Commonwealths for #FinnieAndMe and it's front row seats about 10m from the finish line 😀 #CommonwealthGames

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 14d

#FinnieAndMe at Scotstoun again. Bang in front of the pole vault ready for the decathlon later this morning. Just hope we can stay dry 🤔🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #CommonwealthGames

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 15d

Well done Scott Lincoln - superb bronze medal in the shot putt tonight #CommwealthGames

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 15d

#FinnieAndMe have front row seats on the top curve for tonight's #athlerics at #CommonwealthGames. Lovely evening, some great finals on store tonight too

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 15d

Lovely warm morning at the #CommonwealthGames athletics, but breezy at times but most of us were in tee shirts and sunnies ...... The Aussies

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 15d

Finnie has a big sister 😍 Hope whoever adopted Finnie Mark I is looking after her well. So we are here at the athletics again this morning, nice sunny day, need my sun glasses #CommonwealthGames #

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 16d

What a disaster... Finnie has gone #AWOL 😭😭😭😭😭 So I'm here at the #CommonwealthGames athletics in the drizzle #MissingFinnie Looking forward to the last events of the #Heptathlon .... we start with fireworks 🎇🎇

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 16d

Athletics all the way until Saturday for Finnie and me Hoping we don't get too wet!! #CommonwealthGames

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 17d

Last night at the pool for Finnie and me #CommonwealthGames

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 17d

Another day at the #CommonwealthGames for Finnie and me, joined by my #Welsh flag🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Swimming this morning and evening with #Weightlifting in-between

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 18d

Finnie and I at the #gymnastics this afternoon and #swimming this evening Looking forward to the swimming finals tonight after two #Welsh bronze medals in the gymnastics earlier

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 19d

Finnie at #Netball and #Gymnastics in #Glasgow Fantastic experience so far, looking forward to #swimming and #weightlifting today #CommonwealthGames2026

A plush unicorn mascot wearing a Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2026 outfit is held up in the foreground inside a brightly lit indoor sports arena. The mascot has purple and pink hair, a striped unicorn horn, and a cheerful embroidered face. Behind it, slightly out of focus, is a large court prepared for competition, surrounded by seating, giant video screens, and colourful lighting, with spectators beginning to fill the arena. The photo captures the excitement of the gymnastics venue before the Commonwealth Games event.

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 27d

Great day at the #LondonDL at the #London Stadium Lots of great athletics topped by a Josh Kerr world record

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· 28d

Bee-tastic day #Bees #Summer #WorkingHard #Cheshire

A decorative collage of five photographs showing bumblebees feeding on summer flowers. One close-up shows a bumblebee collecting nectar from clusters of bright yellow flowers with silvery foliage. Three other photographs feature bumblebees on purple lavender blooms, including one image with two bees sharing a lavender stem beside a deep magenta flower. The final image captures a bumblebee in flight approaching lavender. The photographs are arranged in a scrapbook-style layout with white borders on a cream background decorated with simple pink floral illustrations, creating a cheerful celebration of pollinators in the garden.

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Jul 12

#LeavingMyKitchen - in this heat a #chocolate cake, thank goodness for my cool bags! Brief was choc cake with colourful decorations for an alzheimer's sufferer on end-of-life care Rich choc sponge, white chocolate buttercream filling, choc ganache covering, topped with sprinkles and banners

A round chocolate birthday cake sits on a gold cake board on a wooden table against a wooden panelled background. The cake is covered in smooth chocolate buttercream with a textured horizontal finish and topped with piped chocolate swirls around the edge. The centre is decorated with chocolate sprinkles and assorted white, gold and dark chocolate pearls. Two white poles support miniature bunting, with a colourful "Happy Birthday" banner hanging beneath gold, white and pink pennant flags. Pink paper flowers with black centres and blue and gold foliage decorate either side of the cake, creating a cheerful handmade celebration theme.

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Jul 4

#Wimbledon vibes number 2 from my Teaching Training collection The 1920/21 women's tennis team from #Cheshire County Training College, #Crewe Image copyright: 'Margaret Roberts CCTCC Archives' #Tennis #TeacherTraining

Black-and-white formal group photograph of ten young women and one older woman posed outdoors in a garden, probably dating from the late 1910s or early 1920s. The older woman, wearing a light-coloured coat, is seated in the centre, surrounded by the young women who are dressed in simple white tennis dresses with long sleeves and mid-calf skirts. Three women are seated on chairs either side of the central figure, while four stand behind and two sit cross-legged on a rug in front. Several wooden tennis rackets are held by the women at either end of the group or laid on the ground in the foreground. The garden setting includes lawns, shrubs and mature trees, with a wooden pergola or trellis visible in the background. The photograph has the appearance of an organised tennis team or club portrait, with everyone looking directly at the camera.

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Jun 30

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Jun 29

#Wimbledon vibes from my Teaching Training collection The 1917 women's tennis team from #Cheshire County Training College, #Crewe Image copyright: 'Margaret Roberts CCTCC Archives' #Tennis #TeacherTraining

A sepia-toned early 20th-century group portrait of ten young women and one older woman posed outside a large brick building, with trees and gardens in the background. Most of the young women wear simple long white dresses with long sleeves and high necklines, while the older woman seated in the centre wears a darker skirt and light blouse. Three of the young women hold wooden lawn tennis rackets, suggesting they are members of a tennis club or school team. Two women sit on chairs, two sit on the grass at the front, and the remaining women stand behind them in a formal arrangement. The image has a cream-coloured mount, adding to its historic appearance.

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Jun 21

#StainedGlassSunday Saint Romain Windows in #Rouen Cathedral, depicting the life of Saint Romain, the 7th-century patron saint of Rouen This window illustrates the virtues so - hope, fortitude, trust, prudence, temperance, justice

Saint Romain Windows in Rouen Cathedral, depicting the life of Saint Romain, the 7th-century patron saint of Rouen

This window illustrates the virtues so - hope, fortitude, trust, prudence, temperance, justice

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Jun 21

Happy heavenly Father's Day Dad - miss you everyday 💔💔

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Jun 19

When in France .... Trief a little French influence, a silk headscarf - saved me phaffing with my hair!!

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Jun 16

Conference season starts with CESH in Rouen. Looking forward to the next 3 days

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· May 31

Bees busy in the garden earlier this afternoon

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· May 25

#LeavingMyKitchen 70th cake for a golfer Lemon drizzle sponge and lemon flavour buttericing, hand painted with a bespoke topper

A round golf-themed birthday cake sits on a pale green cake board against a wooden background. The cake is decorated in blended shades of green and blue to resemble a golf course, with piped green icing grass covering the top and base. Small white golf balls and red-and-white flag pins decorate the sides. A black silhouette topper of a golfer preparing to putt stands beside a golf bag, with the words “Happy 70th” and the name “Stephen” in black script across the top.

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· May 24

Lovely family day going over the Pontcysyllte aqueduct, the Chirk aqueduct [that runs alongside the Chirk viaduct which carries the Shrewsbury to Chester railway line] and through the Chirk tunnel. Thanks to the Vale of Llangollen Canal Boat Trust

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· May 22

Yesterday was the 350th anniversary of my primary school, the oldest school in Wales - St Chad's Church in Wales Primary School in Hanmer What a lovely day we all had, a celebration in church followed by afternoon tea on the school field Thank you to all the staff and pupils for a wonderful day

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· May 12

Over the next few weeks I'm immersing myself in my alter ego Agnes Beckwith with my sidekick @natationist.bsky.social - in readiness for the @devonfhs.bsky.social conference in October Something of a presentation on #FamilyHistory research with a difference

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡@researchdogsbody· Apr 17

#LeavingMyKitchen Not too fussy was the brief! Hope I've managed that 😊 80th #BirthdayCake, vanilla sponge and buttercream, covered in handmade marshmallow fondant and decorated with a bespoke topper designed by little old me and finished with a marbled board and sparkly ribbon