Over the weekend 4-5th June 2022 every village, town and city in the UK celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. There was an informal street party in our village and a larger event at the local town, which ended with lighting a beacon. Signal beacons were used to send alarms in […]
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Our new version of the website for the Sawley & District Historical Society is now live. We’ve already added a lot of content, including some original research, but the priority was to build a structure that allows content to be easily added, without making it unwieldy or difficult to navigate. […]
Spring has sprung in England and it’s time to get the MG back on the road. The ‘C’ on the registration (licence) plate shows that it was first registered in 1965 (from Aug 1967 UK vehicle registrations ran from August to August, to even out the peaks in new car […]
Only a week to wait for the release of the 1921 Census of Great Britain. No census was taken in Ireland in 1921 because of the ongoing war of independence. The census was (and is) carried out every 10 years and released 100 years later. But the 1941 census was […]
After shopping in Salisbury on the Saturday before Christmas, we walked back through the Close and took this picture of Salisbury Cathedral. The Cathedral was started in 1220, replacing the earlier cathedral at Old Sarum – just to the North of Salisbury. The 404ft spire was finished 100 years later […]
After walking the dogs on the beach at Swanage, we visited Steeple in Dorset, doing some research for Alison’s family and taking pictures for the Findagrave website. The church was built in the 12th century but – despite the name of the village – the church has a tower rather […]