Peterborough Cathedral (1)

On our recent trip to East Anglia, I had the opportunity to explore Peterborough’s magnificent Cathedral. The first abbey…

Chatham Historic Dockyard: Tour (part 3)

The Dockyard had an extensive railway network

My last offering on the history of the Fertile Crescent brought us to around 2100BCE with the fall of the…

Returning to the main quadrangle we come to the Great Hall. The Great Hall dates from around 1540 and…

On a cold chilly and somewhat damp morning, Keith and I made our way to east London to investigate the…

On the way back from a trip to Peterborough, Sue and I stopped off at Welney Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust…

XE8 Midget Submarine Expunger built in 1944 for operations in the far east. It was sunk as an underwater target…

It has certainly turned chilly in London this past couple of days and so autumn cools as we move towards…

Charterhouse as it is today As you enter there is a gallery of memorials to former scholars of the school…

The Great Cormorant is a large waterbird, whose black plumage and use of perching posts make it one of the…