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Tag: 20th century

History

Interview: John Broom, author of “Fight the Good Fight”

Posted on 15 February, 2016 by Helen Barrell

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...

Essex

At sea & in the air: Wivenhoe’s Green boys

Posted on 11 November, 2015 by Helen Barrell

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....

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)

The Strawbridges: a 1930s motorcycling family

Posted on 24 May, 2015 by Helen Barrell

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...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)

Review: The Game

Posted on 17 May, 2015 by Helen Barrell

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 ...

History

Video: The Secret of the Edwardian Brooch

Posted on 3 December, 2014 by Helen Barrell

This might look like a fairly ordinary photograph brooch, but it has a secret…. Audio transcript (PDF –  40KB)

Essex

The Wivenhoe Poltergeist

Posted on 31 October, 2014 by Helen Barrell

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’...

Sources

How to date a photograph… perhaps

Posted on 28 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

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 ...

Sources

The Taylor family album

Posted on 16 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

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...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)/Memorial inscriptions

Further afield…

Posted on 30 August, 2014 by Helen Barrell

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...

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