Votes for women, ‘A simple act of Justice’: a Conservative election agent has a radical idea in 1872; Major TB Baker’s letter to Viscount Chelsea.
‘Tubby takes a nap’ Grandfer’s portrait of Sergeant ‘Tubby’ Lawes, Flight Engineer on Halifax Q for Queenie, RAF Fayid, Egypt 1942.
‘Game Over Fascist Clown’… but not quite yet; ‘Beware the wrath of God’, a lovely walk at Patcham Place.
Squadron Leader Kenneth Clack DFC DFM (d.1944), my grandfather’s pilot on the Tirpitz raids.
An Eighteenth Century package holiday; France, Belgium and Germany, three months on £100.
Castle ghosts; Country house ghosts; townhouse ghosts at Grandma’s and at my parents’
A knight in armour under the whitewash at Hornton Church, and there might just be room for his horse.
Margery de Verdun, Sir John de Verdon and a horse called Grisel de Coloigne: the Hornton Saint George, a portrait of the Black Prince? On second thoughts, I reckon it could be.
