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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
- Feb 7, 2020
- 2 min
Visiting Esme Quentin Country
Sometimes it's good to get away from the keyboard for some inspiration and that's exactly what I did this week. Wandering around the...
Wendy Percival
- Jan 31, 2020
- 2 min
Travels into the attic
With the UK leaving the EU today, it was rather a coincidence to discover a bundle of my dad’s old British blue passports this week while...
Wendy Percival
- Jan 24, 2020
- 2 min
The gruesome truth
Shortly after 1871, my great-great grandmother, Emma Shelley, vanished. Not literally, obviously. But I couldn’t find her anywhere. She’d...