Suffolk regiment – Thiepval memorial. I just thought it was worth recording this little collection of grief, rolled down through 100 years, a whole family and one friend all commemorated at Thiepval, under the Suffolk Regiment’s Panel. Whenever you go to...
I recently rediscovered this. It was something I’d put on Flickr. It is the tale of another family member and his last few days and hours in the Great War. We visited the panel he is remembered on at Tyne Cot a couple of years ago. He was my grandmother Jesse...
My mum is dead, she died over ten years ago at a ‘ripe old age’ after period of massive emotional instability and virtual madness bought on by a rather large stroke. It was a hinterland for her and us, her children. It lasted 18 months from the...
I thought it was about time I did a bit of quantifying, I’ve done a something in a previous piece here, which scratches at the back of a story but only tells the penultimate episode of it not the rest, there’s other bits clanging and banging about on the...
The Brooding soldier; Sint Juliaan or St Julian or Vancouver Corner, take your pick, Flemish, English or Canadian. It sits just to the North East of Ypres on the way to Langemark/Poellcappelle and not far from Passchendaele It is primarily a Canadian memorial. I can...
Not the most thrilling set of photographs, but the one above shows how a field with some lumps in it, tells a story or doesn’t. And of course it also tells how history is there, I’m just the princess who knows where that particular pea is under this...
I’ve microblogged before about this on Flickr using some family photos that belonged to my mother which you can see scattered about this page. The Health Service is quite important in our family, This was particularly true for my mother, who was involved from...
Hidden history: the myth of plague pits in Tombland. I’m reposting because I’ve had a few messages about this lately. The facts still hold. There are burials there, St George’s churchyard may well hold plague victims. There is no plague pit.www.invisibleworks.co.uk/myths-tombland-and-the-plague/... See MoreSee Less
Hidden history: Myths – Tombland, Norwich and the Plague Hidden history | 2 comments It’s odd where you end up in conversations, the same is true in a digital landscape as it is in an analogue one...
Maps: Norwich City Wall Georeferencing, Walled city | 1 comment Basically Norwich City Wall with all the main elements marked on, This is not 100% accurate for detail, It’s stepping off point and th...