Adults can sometimes be guilty, inadvertently in fairness, of causing deep confusion in youngsters. An example I can recall was the placename "Buttermilk Castle" or more common with the fishermen simply "the Castle". The Castle was formidable lump of rock and...
Two weeks ago we looked at the mine incident that closed the Barrow Bridge in 1946. It was a floating mine, the origins of which was not identified, but it had been in the water for some time. It might conceivably have dated to WWI. At the time the mouth of the...
There was many a story my father told me that I dismissed, in error, as fiction. I remember one concerning a ship called the Earl of Sandwich which sounded particularly far fetched. "Four of the crew" he said "turned to piracy and cut the throats of their fellow...
When I was a child I used to come to the cottage on the Green on Sundays, long weekends and summer holidays. It was my Grandparents, Tommy and May White's house and it was always full of cousins, aunts and uncles and lots of gatherings and parties were held there. ...
SS Pembroke - AH Poole Collection NLI The SS Pembroke was built of steel by Laird Brothers of Birkenhead, in the year 1880 and was originally a paddle steamer. The Pembroke was registered at the Port of Milford. In 1896 the ship was altered by the shipyard into a...
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