I admit, things didn’t get off to a brilliant start when I misread the surname as being Packer not Parker, however once that got rectified, then it was all systems go! Since I have owned this postcard, I have had a fondness for Phyllis. I see in her a resignation, a “what am I doing … Continue reading Summer Season – Phyllis Norman Parker
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Summer Season – George Stockwin
Having already spent some considerable time researching the lives of George Ellis and Anita Creighton, I knew that going to the archive of The Stage newspaper was going to be the best starting point to pick up any information I could on George Stockwin. At this point, I didn’t know whether George Stockwin was a … Continue reading Summer Season – George Stockwin
Summer Season – Anita Creighton
Thinking that Anita Creighton was an unusual enough name that I might pick something up using http://www.ancestry.co.uk, that was where I started. In complete opposite to George Ellis, where I was over run with results, this time there was nothing that seemed to fit. Once again, I turned to the newspaper archive on FMP (I … Continue reading Summer Season – Anita Creighton
Summer Season
If you come across a photo like this: you know that there has to be a story behind it! One of the things that drew me to this photo, was that most of the people on the photo were named, which is always helpful when trying to work out what is going on............ (and is … Continue reading Summer Season
C Philip Laslett
It's not only photographs of landscapes that end up relegated to charity shops and car boot sales. Very often discarded family albums can be found, containing sepia photographs of long forgotten people. The very fact that these albums have been discarded suggests that there is no longer any living connection with the photographs, but at … Continue reading C Philip Laslett
Ledbury
Ledbury today is a popular tourist destination, with visitors appreciating the historic buildings aligning the High Street and surrounding roads. Sometimes though, these historic (high)lights are hidden under a bushel - or in this case, pebble dashed render. Here is 1 The Southend, then and now: The Feathers Hotel, on the High Street in Ledbury, … Continue reading Ledbury
Snowy Church
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
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
A Life In Black and White 