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Wendy Percival
Aug 23, 20192 min read
Reels of family history fun!
I crawled into the back of the loft the other day (no mean feat, I have to say!) and dug out the carrier bag of my late dad’s cine films....
Wendy Percival
Aug 3, 20191 min read
An unusual heirloom
Even though our water lily is about to take over our pond, I could never bring myself to change it for a less monstrous variety because...
Wendy Percival
Jul 27, 20191 min read
Schools out!
It's that time of year again when schools in the UK break up for the long summer holidays and the dreaded (for some) school reports come...
Wendy Percival
Jul 12, 20191 min read
Old photo phrustration!
The family historian's greatest frustration - unnamed old family photographs! When we came across a fabulous Victorian photograph album...
Wendy Percival
Jun 28, 20192 min read
If only I'd kept...
Have you ever got rid of something only to regret it later? My dad always maintained he should never have sold his Morgan sports car....
Wendy Percival
Jun 21, 20192 min read
7UP #familyhistory style Nº 2
It's my dad's turn today for the 7UP experience, following on from Mum's story last week, inspired by the TV series of programmes which...
Wendy Percival
Jun 14, 20192 min read
7 UP #familyhistory style
1964 saw the start of a fascinating project inspired by the quote: " Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man."...
Wendy Percival
May 24, 20192 min read
Living history
As you'll know if you read my recent post [see Stepping Back in History] I revisited The Weald & Downland Museum last week. I can confirm...
Wendy Percival
May 10, 20192 min read
Precious old toys
The other day I stumbled across the BBC TV programme called The Repair Shop, which takes old broken items, precious to their owners, and...
Wendy Percival
Jan 26, 20192 min read
Diary of a 1940s teenager
I rediscovered my mum's teenage diary the other day. Actually, it's a transcript she made of her own diaries which she'd written in small...
Wendy Percival
Dec 15, 20181 min read
It's panto season!
I've been browsing the British Newspaper Archives this week for mentions of my thespian grandparents – Ken Barton and Winifred Griffiths....
Wendy Percival
Nov 26, 20182 min read
Treasures in the attic
I've been meaning to investigate a certain box in the attic for a while, now - it's the one in which I packed away my late dad's Scouting...
Wendy Percival
Mar 29, 20181 min read
Message on a postcard
As I mentioned in my previous post about the postcard I found (see Secrets on a postcard), on the reverse of the photograph, there was a...
Wendy Percival
Mar 26, 20181 min read
Know your onions
Following my discovery of this wonderful photograph of the forge, The Wergs, near Wolverhampton (see Secrets on a postcard) I've been...