Having worked our way through the quarter plates alphabetically it has taken us some time to get to the later letters of the alphabet. As you can imagine, there are many Walkers, Webbs, Whites, Woods, Wilsons and Youngs but the V’s are a little thinner on the ground. Among them were four plates with the name ‘Verling-Brown’,…
This week marks 100 years since the execution by a German firing squad of Edith Louisa Cavell, a British Red Cross Nurse who worked in German occupied Belgium during World War One. Cavell is celebrated for having treated soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping around 200 Allied soldiers escape from German occupied Belgium; an action for which for…
Sadly, it is not always possible to research the subjects of our plates in as much detail as we would like. In 80% of cases this is purely because there is a lack of available information but in the other 20% we sometimes really have to ask ourselves how relevant the details of a particular…
Kath Shawcross, Borough Archivist & Local Studies Manager takes a look at Staff Nurse Edith Thorogood, one of the many nurses photographed by David Knights-Whittome. Last year as part of the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1 the Local Studies & Archives Service produced an exhibition looking at the role played by local inhabitants,…
The Past on Glass & Other Stories... 