The early 20th century

Lynn Bates says: I wonder if you could please approximately date these two postcard photographs left to me in family papers. The couple in the first photo are, I am told, my maternal great-grandparent

The term ‘Merseyside’ was coined around the end of the 19th century. In the county reorganisation of 1974 it became the official name for the area that encompassed the boroughs of Birkenhead, Bootle,

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

Founded in 1123 alongside a medieval priory, St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London has provided continuous patient care on the same site for longer than any other hospital in England. Barts Health NHS T

When I was a child in the 1950s, I often visited by grandparents, and played with the neighbours’ children, all older than me. They passed down to me things that I still treasure. Richard gave me his

Q I have a query about my ancestor Henry Clark born in 1893 in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He emigrated to the US in 1922, leaving Liverpool on 10 November 1922 and arriving in Montreal Canada, then he heade