Solving photo mysteries

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

Family history research can, as we know, take us down many paths with surprising outcomes but I would never in my wildest dreams have thought that it would result in my cousin and I standing on a foot

Unusually, my story begins at the end with the perplexing death certificate of my great grandfather William Taylor. William died aged 71 in May 1938, in Gosport, Hampshire, and the death was registere

Wendy Sutherland says: I share some photographs: the first is in a leather box, and I am almost sure it shows the Reverend Archibald Gardner and Mary Hall, as it came with a few other Gardner family p

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,

A village hall mystery doesn’t quite go to plan