Spotlight on… the friends of wolverhampton archives

Works by Handel, Liszt, J Strauss I, J Strauss II and Tchaikovsky Duo Pleyel Linn Records CKD757 56:36 mins Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr name themselves after the 1848 Pleyel they own,

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