It was February 19th 1896 that a terrible tragedy struck a Cambridgeshire village. Wimblington, is a small Cambridgeshire village not far from March. Police constable Lee was on duty at the time and was asked to make forceful entry at a local cottage owned by a widow named Mary Ann Continue Reading
Local History
International Mermaid Day
Yesterday the 29th March was International Mermaid Day and I thought I would share a mermaid story for those who like folk tales from the past. “The Mermaid of Zennor” which is an old popular folk tale set in Cornwall. The author was a man named William Bottrell who wrote Continue Reading
A letter signed Bransby Williams
Family history can take you on the strangest of paths sometimes. Amongst some old brown torn paperwork I came across a letter which stood out to me which was signed Bransby Williams. One of my most recent genealogy projects has taken me on a slightly different journey to this great Continue Reading
Arthur Hollis, Not Forgotten
It’s been a hundred years on the 11th November since the First World War ended. It feels strange talking about an event that happened before mine, my parents and my grandparents life time. Some people would argue why do we as a nation need to reflect on something that happened Continue Reading
LADY VALERIE MEUX
If you know me I am a bit of a history geek and I used to spend time reading and researching records from where I used to live. It must be about twelve years ago when I came across another person who took my interest. Her name was Lady Meux Continue Reading
Shoreditch
Shoreditch as we all know today is part of London and comes under the borough of Hackney. The origin of the name is not certain, however it has a Saxon name and may come from the “Sewerditch”, a stream, which ran east of St Leonard’s to near Holywell Lane. Through time Continue Reading