Thanks to the old Sherlock Holmes films that we used to watch on TV every week after the children’s programme Crackerjack had finished, I have known about my family’s “Hollywood relative” since my chi

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BEHIND THE BIG CRIME

MAE WEST was a trailblazer in more ways than one. Born in 1893, her stage career began at five years old. By the age of fourteen, academia already a distant memory, she was known as the “Baby Vamp” fo

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Further to Dr Mike Esbester’s article “The Reign of the Railway” in the October issue, may I add another angle to the fascinating story of our railways and what they can tell us about family history –