A churchyard find, and churchyards want care, so this report will be as brief as the visit were. Right shoe, black, the smart sort, laces tied, on the flat of a table tomb near the path at All Saints, Batley. Dry and warm. Condition very good — polished not long since, by the look of the toe. The notebook says that's all it'll record on it, and I'll respect that here. Some entries the notebook closes a door quietly and the write-up shouldn't go opening it.
The practice in churchyards, for the record, is: photograph from the path only, keep the visit short, no flask on the premises, no stool ever. I held to all of it. Two photographs were taken from the path and the notebook doesn't say how they came out, but the entry were written up in full, so they'll have served.
The one thing I'll add is the drive home, because the notebook records it and it's part of the honest picture of that side of the district. I came back the Heckmondwike way with an eye out, as I always have since the folder opened in 2015. There were nowt. There's usually nowt, and I want to be clear that an ordinary drive through that area with an eye out is not a search, it's just how I drive round there now. The folder stays in the drawer at home and the register stays the register, and never the twain, unless one day the twain, but not on the twenty-fifth of June 2022. Nowt that day but a polished shoe on a tomb in Batley, recorded respectfully, and home.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.