Showing posts with label Researching the past. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Researching the past. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 August 2025

The story behind the story of an Eltham postcard

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Now as everyone knows there can always be more than one story behind a picture postcard. The first is the image on the front which in a...
Friday, 3 May 2024

On carrying an identity card

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I was no great fan of the idea of identity cards and said so.   Some friends smiled and pointed out that any in store loyalty card probably ...
Thursday, 2 May 2024

When is a building old?

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Historical research is fun, or why else do it?  And that pretty much sums up what I did yesterday.  It started with a picture posted by ...
Wednesday, 24 April 2024

To keep or throw away things ..... that tell a story

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It’s one of those fault lines running through our house.   I have a tendency to collect which if truth be known is just hoarding and there...
Thursday, 29 October 2020

Home documents from a World War No 2 the Clothing Book

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I was too young to remember rationing but it lasted into my fourth birthday. So here courtesy of Graham Gill are a reminder of when m...
Thursday, 17 August 2017

Revealing the stories of British Home Children ........ to publish or leave in the shadows?

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Now one of the fascinating developments of social media is the way people want to share their lives. Alghero on a hot evening, 2013 I...
Saturday, 22 March 2014

The grand reopening of Central Ref today

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It has been a long time coming but today Central Ref will reopen .* Now for some of us who spent hours in the Archives and Local Histor...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Coming soon ... the grand reopening of Central Ref on March 22

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It has been a long time coming but  Central Ref will reopen on March 22.* Now for some of us who spent hours in the Archives and Local...
Sunday, 17 February 2013

Never forget to ask, ....... reflections on missed opportunities

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Dad in 1962 It was the closing remark on a short film I watched on Friday evening where a celebratory revisits the home of his youth. ...
Friday, 5 October 2012

Home documents from a World War No 1 The National Milk Scheme

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Sometimes it is just enough to let the documents speak for themselves.   So here is the first from the collection of Graham Gill. ...
Sunday, 10 June 2012

Getting help with the past

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This is not an advert more an appreciation of one of those magazines which have been helping many of us make sense of family history. ...
Monday, 4 June 2012

All you ever wanted to know but never knew where to look .... an index of books on British Home Children

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Even today when you tell people that 100,000 children were sent from Britain to Canada between 1870 and 1930, the usual response is surpr...
Friday, 11 May 2012

In search of a book ............... clues to the story of Chorlton in the early 19th century

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An occasional series charting the research that led to Chorlton-cum-Hardy A Community Transformed There will be those who mutter “get a...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012

In search of a book ............... clues to the story of Chorlton in the early 19th century, Cenus Records

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An occasional series charting the research that led to Chorlton-cum-Hardy A Society Transformed http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/sea...