Interview: John Broom, author of “Fight the Good Fight”
With the First World War 100th anniversary commemorations ongoing, I’m welcoming John Broom, author of Fight the Good Fight: Voice of Faith from the First...
Tag: 20th century
At sea & in the air: Wivenhoe’s Green boys
I’ve mentioned Grandma’s photo album before, when it turned out that the unnamed WW1 soldier posing in a Brighton studio was in fact her Uncle Bill....
The Strawbridges: a 1930s motorcycling family
Last year, I wrote about the headstones in St. George’s, Harborne, and mentioned the unusual monument to Freda Strawbridge, a young woman who died in a mo...
Review: The Game
I’ve lived in Birmingham for several years, long enough to get confused sometimes when my brain forgets what the new Bull Ring shopping centre looks like ...
Video: The Secret of the Edwardian Brooch
This might look like a fairly ordinary photograph brooch, but it has a secret…. Audio transcript (PDF – 40KB)
The Wivenhoe Poltergeist
What I’m about to write has nothing to do with genealogy, although it’s something that happened to me and a friend of mine in Wivenhoe, so it’...
How to date a photograph… perhaps
I’m very lucky that so many photos of my relatives have survived. The above is one of my favourites – a family group – and I have been trying ...
The Taylor family album
In July, I went to Somerset to visit my dad, and we ended up in the Smuggler’s Cave in Watchet. There’s all sorts of treasures to be found here R...
Further afield…
Today, I went for a wander around the churchyard at St. Peter’s in Harborne, a suburb to the west of Birmingham. No, not in Essex or Suffolk, but a wonder...