Antiques & collecting

I can just remember trolleybuses as our last service trundled down the tracks in the autumn of 1966. My grandfather called them “trackless” buses as he remembered the old tramcar “rattlers”. This love

A fleet of vintage trams and buses take ...

The fairy photographs taken by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in Cottingley, near Bradford, in 1917 and promoted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – a firm believer in fairies – are among the most

Dear Simon, My daughter, Wendy, and I have enjoyed so many visits to Singapore, and this year we felt it was about time we put our thoughts and experiences down on paper. Sir Stamford Raffles was knig

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons gave few interviews in his lifetime, which is why this slim but pricey volume, published 40 years after his death, has such value. As is evident from the title – Sir W