When visiting Weardale in County Durham a few years ago I came across a little book entitled "Weardale in Old Photographs...

 Picnics in the Park A lovely topic for musing on, particularly if you have photographs of people you don't know a lot about. this is...

What's in a  Name? My 2x great uncle John Middleton Forbes was also known as  Jack, which seems to have been a common nickname for ...

Sepia Saturday 189: strange contraptions A lot of machines used in previous centuries would be seen as contraptions these days, and th...

The middle name of the somewhat disgruntled young Charles Forbes in the previous photo post was Seddon, which seems very likely to have been...

While looking through my mother's old family albums recently, I came across this serene photo of my grandmother Mona Forbes, 2nd fr...