Unthought of, though, somehow

Burgoyne Burbidges & Co chemical works in East Ham looms large in my family's history. The company began trading in the Hackney area...

One of the earliest photos I have of Mum & Dad, taken in 1953, two years before they were married It was an unexpected delight to hear R...

The first two or three years seemed to pass slowly, perhaps because I was concentrating so much on Mum's health and wellbeing back then,...

One day in the mid-1980's, very quietly, without fuss or announcement, Dad stopped eating meat. Never once, from that moment until he pa...

Here's a photo taken on June 18th 1955 - 66 years ago today. Mum and Dad, newly wed, being greeted with a storm of confetti outside St A...

Dad & I, 1961 When I was very young, Dad seemed to be constantly decorating in some part of the house and whenever he decorated, ou...

When I was a very young child, I lived in constant fear that after my parents had come in to my bedroom to say their goodnights, they wou...

One Sunday morning in 1965, in the days when you could still do that kind of thing, Dad and I wandered along Downing Street and he ...

55 songs in 55 days - one for every year of my life...so far. When Dad's car failed its MOT at the end of 2006, the garage told h...

55 songs in 55 days - one for every year of my life...so far. 'Tanx' 10 Years Early. Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, even Frank ...

55 songs in 55 days - one for every year of my life...so far. I've written about Dad's love of music a few times, how it drifte...

In 55 days I will turn 55 years of age. To mark this...ahem...momentous occasion, I'm going to attempt, over the next 55 days, to ...

Dad took me to a speedway match for the first time in the Summer of 1967. I was seven years old and instantly hooked. For the next nine ...

My Great-Aunt Maud was quite unwell and confined to her bed, so to keep her company, and her mind occupied, Mum and I sat with her and...

Regrets, I've had a few...and many of them concern artists I never got to see in concert. Roy Orbison is a prime example. Thanks to ...

Dad had a good eye for a photo opportunity and, in the 1960s at least, owned a reasonably good camera. He felt that he couldn't justify ...

Me: Mum, can I ride my bike in the garden? Mum: What, in this weather? It's the winter of 1963 you know, this snow won't cle...

I didn't fly for the first time until as late as 1993, but during the 1960s, Dad would occasionally take me out to Heathrow Airport to ...

As the shutter clicked, capturing a happy couple in the East End of London exchanging their wedding vows, 225 miles to the North West a youn...