Primitive Methodists were meeting in a barn at the time of the religious census of 1851; the form was filled in by ‘Precher’ Charles Adams a brickmaker from Stockton. The ...
A 500-mile cycling and walking network is being set up in the West Midlands and named the ‘Starley network’. This prompted me to investigate further: there’s a Starley statue I ...
Taken in High Street, May Day 1953. My uncle, Bert Smith, was bandmaster, and I am stood behind him, capless, with tenor horn, aged 10. I can name the majority ...