Unthought of, though, somehow

I started to seriously look into my family tree over the past winter, in an effort to make sense of the paper trail left by Mum. In the 1980...

Just lately I've been spending more time than usual in London. My aunt is having a few health issues and my cousin has had to fly in fro...

Back in the 1970s, most of the Friday morning playground chatter concerned the previous evening's edition of Top of the Pops. A lucky fe...

Maud, my Maternal Grandmother (Nan), was born in Stratford in the East End of London on January 19th 1893, 131 years ago. She passed away tw...

My maternal grandmother remarried late in life and thus Uncle Ted became the only male grandparent figure I'd ever have. He worked at th...

Half-time in the back garden, circa 1969 As I've mentioned a number of times on these pages, my cousin and I grew up as virtual brother ...

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