Now, I like the sort of history that twists and turns and goes off in all sorts of directions, and often starts with stuff that has seems mundane.
So today for the next three weeks Radio Four offers up The Wedding Detectives.
"Wedding albums capture the happiest day of a couple’s life. But what happens when those pictures are lost, discarded or even thrown away?
Wedding album collector Charlotte Sibtain and journalist Cole Moreton uncover the stories behind the photographs and try to reunite them with the family.
This time, the Wedding Detectives find just two photographs from the 1959 high society wedding of Tim and Sonya Bryant but, following clues, uncover a trail that takes them to West Cornwall and an extraordinary story involving Einstein, Marconi, landed gentry in decline, the author of the Chamomile Lawn Mary Wesley, infidelity and a trial for murder.
A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4"*
And for those interested in my picture, it was the wedding of Miss Lomax and Mr Kitching, 1915, held at Hough End Hall.
Location; Chorlton and Cornwall
Pictures; the wedding of Miss Lomax and Mr Kitching, 1915 and Evelyn at the Hall circa 1930s from the family album of Evelyn nee Lomax Milburn donated by Mrs D Miller
*The Wedding Detectives, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nl79
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