Orphan to heiress - just how did this happen?

Chen Reiss, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Daniel Behle, Tareq Nazmi; Le Cercle de l’Harmonie et al/Jérémie Rhorer Alpha Classics ALPHA1111 71:40 mins This is the second historically informed recording of Beetho

Q My grandfather, Thomas Gilbert Holman, was born in 1869/70. The earliest record I have for him is as a ‘visitor’ in the household of Walter Fitch, in Kelvedon, Essex, in the 1911 census. He is singl

I was enjoying a stroll down the side of the River Avon in the direction of the village of Woodgreen on the edge of the New Forest on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border. We had a long period of dry weathe