In the 1930s my father went to Caterham School in Surrey where he was very keen on playing Rugby. He kept many team photos, several signed o...

  In recent years, recent days even, we have heard people in this country denouncing refugees crossing from France because, “the British Tax...

This small Surrey church may be next to a busy road but it is best to reach it by walking along a pathway of pollarded trees from the gro...

Reading BeetleyPete's account of the houses in which he had lived over 60 years, inspired me to indulge in similar nostagia. Una...

Throughout most of the 19 th century public executions were carried out on the rooftop of Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark, where the cr...

When a man was convicted of a major crime in the 19 th century he was often transported to Australia, leaving his family without means...