Following the challenge set by Becky on It caught my Eye in Portugal  this is my second Past Meets Present post   but I've moved i...

Early on a Monday morning in April 1869 George Coker, an apprentice chemist, collected the key to Albert Langford’s Chemist and Dru...

Guildford On Tuesday November 3 rd 1863 there was a feeling of rising tension among the residents of Guildford in Surrey.   Some were...

One of the many families split up and spread across the globe in Edwardian times were the LARNER family. In 1858, Thomas Larner was born in...

In 1901 among the many inmates of Guildford Union Workhouse were the Standing family, Priscilla, aged 39 and  her three sons, Harry, aged 5...

In late July 1882, the peace of a warm afternoon in Kings Lynn, Norfolk was violently disturbed by screams of, “Murder.”  Just before 3 ...

The front of the Red Lion and two pictures of the Fleet at the back of the Tavern Flowing beneath the streets of London between Hamps...

I have been trying to discover more about life for a 19 th century soldier’s wife and children to fill out the account of my great-grandfa...

The story of John Williams, missionary Yesterday a photo of the ship halfpenny, used in Britain from 1937 until 1969, was posted on Twi...

I have always been fascinated by fairground horses ever since I inherited my grandfather's rocking horse which was made by Savage...