My godparents are both well into their eighties now, but are still very sprightly and they live in one of the medieval Alms houses in our an...

The photographs I took of the sweet shops, on the outside of the Back to Back houses we visited in Birmingham ,made a perfect subject for my...

We travelled to see Katie  during half term and to break the long drive stopped off at a National Trust house in Shropshire. Attingham P...

One weekend in September every year, many historic sites and buildings open their doors for free to encourage interest in history.  We had s...

We had a few days up in Nottingham seeing Hannah, and took the opportunity to travel out and about to visit National Trust and English Herit...

We visited Hannah earlier this week, and spent the day at Hardwick Hall yesterday. The Hall was home to Bess of Hardwick, one of the...

One of my favourite days in Septembers past has always been Heritage Open Day , when we can go into buildings that are usually not open to t...

Well, I couldn't post today without mentioning this now could I? I'm not really a royalist (being RC means this proves a bit difficu...

...for Hannah Thursday, she voted for the very first time, and at a general election too! We have always been interested in politics in our ...