Sometimes when you are trying to locate a photo, it comes down to educated guess work - the landscape might give you clues, or buildings might have key architectural features that help narrow down contenders. This can take a lot of hours, slogging through pictures and maps and hoping to get lucky. On other occasions, … Continue reading Snowy Church
AHF and Mrs Hubbard
A version of this post was previously posted on the 1/1/2019 Sometimes when you are researching family stories, it can get rather tedious (speaking from personal experience here - one can have too many Ag Labs from Norfolk!!). On the other hand, one twist can send you down a rabbit hole into a dimension that you couldn't predict. Who were AHF and Mrs Hubbard? In … Continue reading AHF and Mrs Hubbard
The Residence Private Hotel
This post was first published on my previous blog on 31/12/2018 A topical message on a postcard picked up at a local auction I had a sneaking suspicion that this would be a photo of somewhere in Hereford - there was a limited number of people with the surname Hubbard accompanied by three initials. Using the 1939 Register, I found an Arthur H. F. Hubbard … Continue reading The Residence Private Hotel
New Year New Blog
Or rather, same blog but different platform! Yes, after much pondering and faffing around, I decided to move from my weebly space to this shiny new WordPress blog. I am hoping that 2019 will be a year of fresh starts and new horizons, and so I felt that I needed a new house for my … Continue reading New Year New Blog