Today’s post is a wonderful piece of research by our dedicated project volunteer Kathy Nichols, who has an aptitude for historical research and always seems able to find a good story among our plates. Again, it is an example of how sometimes something which has a seemingly quite indirect connection to the subject of your research, leads you down…
We are really pleased to be able to offer work placements to local students here at The Past on Glass. Everyone who works on the Knights-Whittome collection feels quite passionately about the importance of our Edwardian glass plate negative collection – indeed about the Local Studies and Archives collection as a whole, without which none of the research on…
During July we are usually fortunate enough to host a work experience student for a week. This year we had two girls, one from local grammar school Nonsuch and the other from Carshalton High School for girls. Each of the students we have hosted has been kind enough to write about their experiences, which…
As we enter the final months of our project, we are thrilled to be putting the finishing touches to an exhibition that will enable us not only to display this wonderful collection to the public at last, but will also put on show just the achievements of our wonderful and dedicated volunteer team. This project…
Father’s Day is commonly viewed as an occasion with its roots in commercial enterprise. In fact, its origins date back to 1910 in the United States where a woman called Sonora Smart Dodd wanted to honour her father, a veteran who had, as a single parent, raised six children on his own. Inspired by the US Mother’s day…
Today’s post comes courtesy of Kathy Nichols, long-time project volunteer and a regular contributor to this blog. Thank you Kathy, for another great piece of research! All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor* – The Home Front, Summer 1915 One of the joys of working on the Past on Glass project is the way the…
This is Reginald Ralph Pelly. The photograph is dated 10 August 1915 and as you can see from the maple leaf on his collar he was in the Canadian army. Initially reading the name as Pilly from its envelope we could not find anyone by that name. However we did find attestation papers for R R Pelly…
