John Machen was born in Scotland, the son of a Glasgow merchant and magistrate. He became a surgeon by profession, and started in practice in Dartmouth, Devon. On 8th August ...
The sculpture was created for floral displays that happened around the town in the latter half of the 20th century, I remember it being outside of the railway station and ...
My father, Ernest French, was born in Coventry in 1911 and, apart from a brief period during the war, lived there until my family moved to Kenilworth in 1957/8.
A wartime ...
In the early 19th century, the north side of Coventry Cathedral was supposedly haunted by a ghostly monk. It got so frequent that a residents of Priory Row used to ...
Unfortunately, the war came in 1939 and, regrettably, I had to eventually leave J. C. Smith’s to work in a factory for war work. My mother was already working at ...