Down tools. what happened when the mines closed

There are many occupations described in historical documents or censuses that almost no one is gainfully employed doing any more. People my age may remember certain jobs that have gone by the wayside.

Hats off to the Government, said The Times. It ...

RAILWAY 200

So much of Britain’s diverse wealth of historic railway infrastructure still exists in one shape or another -if you know where to look. TIM DUNN goes exploring

There is something pleasant in the thought that joviality will reign to-morrow in such grim homes as London workhouses,” a reporter for the West Londoner wrote on Christmas Eve 1870. “There will be an

Dear Editor: The article on the GWR Hall class locos and the photo taken from Westbury Lane bridge, Purley, Berks as it was then, brought back wartime memories as a 6 year old boy. The signals shown a