Queen of the sea
Yesterday was spent in Portsmouth looking at the Mary Rose – one of the earliest proper battleships and a founding …
Category Archives: History & Heritage
Victory at Christmas
Fort Nelson
Not somewhere I would naturally chosen to spend a cold or indeed any other kind of day, but Fort Nelson, …
Up The Palace
Wednesday’s challenge was to find something interesting to do on a wet day in November within 30 minutes travel of …
It was fifty years ago today …
Well, maybe more – but not much. Currently scanning my old slides and came across this one taken using Kodachrome …
The final pick
I’ve been sorting out – a better word would be curating – the remains of Uncle Harry’s slides. I’m interested in …
Suspiciously like Charles I
St John the Evangelist in Leeds is unusual in that it was a Jacobean new-build (1632-34) and, although it has …
HMS India – update
In November 2012, I posted an article about the sinking of the armed merchant cruiser HMS India in August 1915 and posted …
Portsmouth
Had an absolutely brilliant day out in Portsmouth on Friday, courtesy of J. who proved to be both an excellent …
Open Doors – St Ebbe’s
Whilst searching for lunch (more difficult than it sounds), I popped in to the newly refurbished St Ebbe’s. Although there’s …
After Work 