Showing posts with label family history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family history. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 July 2014

This Week's Obits of Interest

No apologies for coming a bit closer to home this week, as David Blunkett has written a very nice obit of my Uncle Wilfred.  Blunkett hasn't included the story of why he only has nine and a half fingers (the perils of teaching workwork to blind kids!).


Wilfred King (d. Jun 2014)
Teacher



Dom Philip Jebb (d. 8 Jun 2014)
Monk and Headmaster

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Wednesday Welcome

A warm Wednesday welcome to new follower Gina of Beauty From Ashes.  Gina is a  talented seamstress, and her blog is devoted to her penchant for historical costume.  Those of you interested in Victoriana will find some good inspiration there.

As her subscription serves to remind me of my concern that the blog has been too narrow in focus in the last few months (and because it's generally a good idea to cultivate followers who make macaroons), I've had a rummage about and found the collection of cdv's of New England seafarer's and their families I bought some time ago.




But as you've decided that this year you'll concentrate on the 1920s, here's my grandparent's wedding photo