‘my ancestors lived among border reivers’

Pluckley is a small English village located on the northern edge of the Kentish Weald between Maidstone and Ashford. It was an Anglo-Saxon settlement, boasts a 14th century church, and found fame in t

Ballast Hills is a largely forgotten, unconsecrated burial site in the heart of Newcastle. Also known locally as Grannies Fields or Plaguey Fields, it became the final resting place for generations of

It was two very serious illnesses which struck her only a year apart that made Debbie Palmer decide to have more fun in her life. Thinking back to her childhood digging around in her granny’s garden t

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

Everingham Park, East Riding of Yorkshire The home of Philip and Helen Guest

I must extend my huge thanks to Jon Winder for his excellent article Swings and Roundabouts (July). I am currently scribbling notes which I hope to turn into a memoir of my childhood, and one chapter