Telling Stories With Words and Pictures
Although I haven’t written anything here for a while, I have been quite busy with my family history research. As part of that, I follow a few other genealogy blogs, and always come away with something interesting to think about. One of the blogs I read regularly is Randall Seavers’ Genea Musings https://www.geneamusings.com A regular …
We’ve just spent a peaceful week in the lovely Shropshire market town of Ludlow. There are plenty of good walks with splendid views. Here’s a picture of the town with a view of the breathtaking Shropshire landscape in the background.
This week’s picture is from the Ryedale Folk Museum in the lovely village of Hutton-le-Hole in North Yorkshire. This daylight photographic studio, believed to be the oldest existing one in England, belonged to local photographer William Hayes. The studio was in the garden of his home in Hutton-le-Hole, until his son donated it to the …
Another good old fashioned Lancashire word. To Larrup means to beat or thrash. As a kid the last thing you wanted was someone to offer you a ‘good larrupin’.