Autumn is one of my favourite times of year for a good walk and explore. The leaves are turning all shades of red and gold. And if you can catch a sunny day, even better. So the wife and I…
Our trusty National Trust membership can certainly introduce new buildings and parks to us, but on a warm summer's day recently, we decided to return to Kedleston Hall – a stunning English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire. It's where our…
The fact that I never knew my grandfather - he died before I was born - was one of the reasons I began my own family history research many years ago. With the arrival of The 1939 Register on Findmypast,…
A few years ago, my wife and I contemplated buying a house in France and, one summer, we spent 6 weeks looking all over the area we fancied and must have seen almost 100 houses. In one of them, owned…