Picture of the Week: 9th May 2018

After a late winter flurry, spring has finally arrived in North Yorkshire. This picture is of the picnic site at Leavening Brow, where I walk Bruce the Dog every day. All of a sudden the place is a riot of green, set off by the bright yellow dandelions, and the blue sky. It was just …

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Picture of the Week: 6th May 2018

Here’s the earliest document from our family archives that I possess. It records the marriage of my great-grandfather, Edward Fernley, to his first wife, Mary Garger. The marriage took place in 1861, but Mary died some years later and Edward married twice more before his death in 1921. There’s a mystery surrounding Mary that I …

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