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Could you imagine Hanwell without its viaduct? The whole feeling of the place would be transformed. The Wharncliffe Viaduct is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the area and features on a lot of local imagery, including St Mark’s school logo. And there’s a lot more about it than meets the eye. The viaduct […] The post Brunel’s Wharncliffe Viaduct appeared first on Society for One-Place…
From 1851 onwards the national United Kingdom census was usually taken at the end of March or early April. However, in 1921 the census was put back from 14 April and taken on the night of 19 June, due to serious levels of industrial unrest earlier in the year. The later date meant that the […] The post The 1921 census and Blackpool appeared first on Society for One-Place Studies .
For more than a decade I’ve been running a weekly project within my one-place study, reading the local newspaper corresponding to the date exactly 150 years earlier and posting on social media about any mentions of my place. At year-end these are collated and published on my website. 1875 was a fairly typical year for […] The post A #OnePlaceAdverts View of 1875 in Wing Buckinghamshire appeared…
Introduction The Blackpool Improvement Act, 1879 included a clause which read: “The Corporation may from time to time pay or contribute towards the payment of a public band of music for the borough, and also the cost of maintaining at railway stations and other public places advertisements stating the attractions and amusements of the town; […] The post Blackpool Advertisements appeared first on…
It’s January 2026 and this month’s blog prompt theme is #OnePlaceAdverts. This got me thinking as up until now I had just searched the newspapers online at FindMyPast and Newspapers.com. Yes that got me results fast but would this method be suitable to get me everything? The short answer is NO! There are many reasons […] The post One-Place Adverts appeared first on Society for One-Place Studies .
In 1949, Miss Mary Eliza Corbett was desirous of giving as a Gift to the People of Tywyn (then spelt Towyn), Merioneth (Meirionydd) the Estate including the Mansion House of YnysyMaengwyn where she previously lived and had been brought up as a child and the surrounding woodlands and parkland for use as under the Open […] The post Ynysymaengwyn Gift to the people of Tywyn (Meirionydd/Merioneth)…
When I first registered my One Place Study of Graveney and Goodnestone in North Kent, I thought I might find the odd ancestor or two to add to the family tree, but I never anticipated quite how that would happen. I had been giving talks on various aspects of Graveney history for a few years, […] The post One Place Study Enhances Family Tree appeared first on Society for One-Place Studies .
Following on from All About That Place 2025: Days 1 to 5, let’s now conclude our summary of #AATP25. The second half of this year’s ‘Mini-AATP’ followed the pattern of the first, with a theme for each day matching those chosen for the full-scale 2024 event, and opportunities to look back at last year’s videos […] The post All About That Place 2025: Days 6 to 10 appeared first on Society for…
I started researching my One-Place Study, the Lying-in Department (1878-1918) at the Destitute Asylum in Adelaide, South Australia (Figure 1), about four years ago for my master’s degree. At that time, my focus was on the personal circumstances of the inmates, as they were called, namely the destitute, pregnant, mostly unmarried women who could not […] The post Using a timeline to organize…
Over the years, Dad had reorganised and 'rationalised' photo albums, so that those which survived after his death were often like collections formed from other albums, with their precise details missing. Not every album had suffered this fate, and in ones which had been re-used some pages remained intact, with their labels. But for a […] The post Recreating a Photographic Record of our Childhood…
