“Is it a Memorial about his own history that he is writing, aunt?’ ‘Yes, child,’ said my aunt, rubbing her nose again. ‘He is memorializing the Lord Chancellor, or the Lord Somebody or other—one of those people, at all events, who are paid to be memorialized—about his affairs. I suppose it will go in, one [...]
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Mr Dick’s Kite
Posted in antique textiles, Genealogy, History, local history, Textile Arts, tagged 18thC textiles, 19thC textiles on February 24, 2012 | 7 Comments »
War Horse! Guest Post by Amanda Carter
Posted in Genealogy, History, Leeds, local history on February 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
When I went to see ‘War Horse’ recently, I thought of Uncle Jesse, famously a stunt rider in early films and trainer of horses for the Yorkshire Hussars. Last year, a fellow Boothman descendant had sent me some amazing photos of Great Uncle Jesse in WW1, training horses for the Front. The lovely Amanda Carter [...]
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