As a Welshman at the helm of this week’s Weekly Blog Club, it’s lovely to see an image from Barry Island, which is just a few miles from us down the road. Richard’s found a fantastic image from a photobooth…
Having been without my computer during Week 37, I got it back, mended with a new hard drive and fresh Operating System, and then I had days of getting all the other software I need back onto it during Week…
I have tried an audio summary (for the first time) of the Week 30 posts. Apologies for the rather stilted, self-conscious delivery! Bouncing, a nun, squeezing pips, and more! Thanks very much to Louise Brown for helping me by doing…
This week Mark Wood shares with us an interesting assignment of photographing photos and recreating them digitally. The subjects were Mayors from over 120 years. The project presented some challenges and Mark explains how he overcame these in his digital…
Richard Overy shares another wonderful glimpse from our past with an image of the teaching staff at Bradford Grammer School, taken in 1939. Lots of interesting faces in this photo – although I can’t help but notice the staff were…
Yay! Another great photo submitted this week by Richard Overy, showing a glimpse of life gone by. This photo shows a gathering outside a house, possibly capturing generations within neighbouring families. Wilson & Mrs W. Hoskin by Richard Overy
A wonderful blog from Janet Davis who looks back on how life was in London in the middle the Thatcher years. Alongside the wealth and fashion, Janet also covers how the development of the docklands was viewed to a heritage professional and…
Hello, yes it’s me Kate Bentham again, just helping out at the Weekly Blog Club controls for week 14 of year 2. Time really is zooming by but it’s great to see so many out of this world blogs being…
This week Chris Bolton shares a story of how he ended up on a local radio show talking about an old record he found in a collection. This might not have happened had it not been for social media and…
