We are staying in  Bayraklı , a suburb of Izmir. Our apartment, home for 2 weeks is on the 10th floor of a futuristic 47 storey tower. The...

  Spath Lane Annie, as she was known to bus crews, travelled daily from Handforth to Manchester. She was elderly and it was said that her ...

Ginny McDermott grew up in Furness Vale and has kindly sent us some photographs from  the early 1970s. The Sports Day was held on the Footba...

The sound of men singing echoed between the houses just about dawn on Saturday. A return from a night long celebration perhaps or maybe some...

The pineapple played an important role in the history of Ponta Delgada in the Azores. Images of the fruit appear in the mosaic pavements in ...

One feature of the countryside of Sao Miguel Island in the Azores is the dry stone walls of black basalt. This volcanic rock is seen through...

Despite spending a weekend at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel,  we failed to see the spectre of Lucette.  Dunkenhalgh Hall was built at the end of the...

The Lindy Hop was a popular American dance in the 1930s. It came from Harlem, New York in 1928 and was based on jazz, tap and the Charleston...

  Passengers wait atWingham Colliery Station in Kent in 1919 Trouble in Gloucestershire   The Trouble House Inn near Tetbury in Gl...

The History of a German Glassmaking Industry The Fichtelgebirge is a district of Upper Franconia, a region in the eastern part of the Sta...