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The local town cemetery adjoins the old churchyard in Poulton-le-Sands. Closed to new burials for some years, there is only now a slight pos...

Today is 50 years since the publication of  Reshaping of Britain's Railways - the Beeching Report. You can download a copy and the maps...

I have finally got round to reading the prize-winning Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel . Historical novels can often be rather stodgy affairs, fee...

Walking over to Iona Abbey from the McLeod centre, on Iona, you can clearly see the vallum or boundary earthwork and wall of the original m...

Quite an interesting little meme . Five events and a chance to record the impact they had on you: Princess Diana's death - Sunday 31 A...

Image via Wikipedia A clergy colleague in Nottingham once told the story of a wedding where the couple requested the theme from Robin Hood (...

A frind of mine emailed this URL. It's an animated presentation of the empires of the middle east from about 3000BC. Nothing ever change...

Now have inherited sofa. It's a bit faded, very dusty, but has a really cool drop-down arm at one end. Now faced with the tricky questio...

Inherited a sofa recently - just went down to Nottingham yesterday to collect it. Apparently the the frame dates back to my great-great-gran...