On Tuesday 14 October 1958 St. Mary’s Amateur Operatic Society met to discuss their forthcoming pantomime. They settled on that old favourite Cinderella, a choice which may have been sublimel…

I have looked at trade cards on a couple of previous occasions and it appears that many of our readers like them as much as I do. So, today I am going to look at a specific trade – that of a druggi…

Overgrown memorials is theme for Day 3 of the 31 Days of Graves project. Just a few to share with you from Loughborough old cemetery.

The first five stories from last week's Forgotten Women Friday have now been added. You can read about Roseanna Ashby, Maria Frances Brown, Frances Ann Mallett, Eleanor Farrant Rump and Lydia Rumsby h...

Today the theme for 31 Days of Graves is memorials to people who died abroad, and not in Loughborough.

Here's the first entry for 31 Days of Graves, on the theme of angels, which feature on some of Loughborough's memorial stones.

Meet the eclectic families who lived in Forge Cottage, Drayton, Vale of White Horse in the 20th Century.