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Mr Page from which school where?
I have a cabinet card in my possession with a handwritten inscription that totally eludes me. It appears to say "Wm A Page, Keah School Bampton", and I estimate it to be around 1890. Unfortuantely, I can find no reference to a Keah, Reah, Real or Keal School in...
Abbots Ripton Train Disaster
The Abbots Ripton rail disaster occurred on 21 January 1876 at Abbots Ripton, then in the county of Huntingdonshire, England, now in Cambridgeshire, on the Great Northern Railway main line, previously thought to be exemplary for railway safety. In the accident, the...
A Ready Reckoner for Hangmen
From "A Handbook For Hanging" by Charles Duff, 1928, "Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Aspyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles...
Tweed Cross to Edinburgh Roadmap, 1785
From Paterson's British Itinerary Vol II, 1785. Printed by Carrington Bowles, London
18th December 1943 – Immorality in Norwich
From The Daily Mirror, 18th December 1843
13th December 1795 – Wold Cottage Meteorite
On 13th December 1795, the second largest meteorite ever to fall on England - weighing 56 pounds - fell on the grounds of The Wold Cottage, Wold Newton, East Yorkshire. The owner of Wold Cottage, Mr Edward Topham erected a monument to the falling of "The Atmospherical...
Site Search Changes
I've made some changes to the way the site search operates. Up until now, the search results always consisted of a list of Items from our members stock containing references to people or places matching your search query. This has now been changed to return the actual...
County Map of Cambridgeshire, 1814
Published by J Wallis, of Berwick Street, Soho, London, 1814 (click to enlarge)
Victorian Wedding Photo?
Posted for consideration, a nice unidentified portrait of a Victorian couple, estimated 1860s. No photographer or studio details provided. This Victorian Portrait is available to buy on our website
Lydia Butcher of Sutton, Cambridgeshire, 1860s
Can anyone decipher the handwriting on the back of this Carte de Visite, from the photographic studio of E A Garlick, 1860s (click to enlarge) [see update in comments] This Victorian Carte de Visite is now available to buy on our website
