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Wendy Percival
- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
Memories with an ironic twist
I was drooling this week over our photos of Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds, now owned by the National Trust, which we visited at...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 12, 2020
- 2 min
Quirky family heirloom
I enjoyed another episode of the BBC’s The Repair Shop this week – with a box of tissues close to hand, as usual. I don’t seem to be able...
Wendy Percival
- May 2, 2020
- 3 min
Truth, fiction and an unbelievable coincidence
Imagine you’ve settled down to read a novel when you suddenly spot the name of one of your ancestors in the text. And not just any...
Wendy Percival
- Mar 20, 2020
- 2 min
Loss of a loving father
The Prime Minister spoke this week about the current Coronavirus situation being the biggest crisis in a generation which made me think...
Wendy Percival
- Feb 21, 2020
- 2 min
Banking the old fashioned way
I came across my dad's old bank book the other day. It was a Midland Bank savings account and he’d opened it with the sum of 2 shillings...
Wendy Percival
- Feb 14, 2020
- 2 min
Mystery wedding and jaunty hats
Happy Valentine's Day! A great excuse for browsing the family photograph albums for wedding photos. The style of weddings have changed...
Wendy Percival
- Jan 17, 2020
- 3 min
Murder trial witness
As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, I discovered, while browsing the British Newspaper Archives, that, Henry Viner, an ancestor of...
Wendy Percival
- Nov 8, 2019
- 2 min
Mystery of George's #WW1 wound
A photograph of my great-uncle Tom Diggory, my gran's older brother, always stood proudly on my gran's mantelpiece. Tom had been wounded...
Wendy Percival
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
Escape from the workhouse
It must have been a traumatic experience for my great uncles and great aunt to be admitted to the workhouse in 1886, after their father...