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Wendy Percival
Jun 19, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20192 min read
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...