After I visited Handsworth which I wrote about in a post called Becoming Jane, I also visited Attercliffe and Darnall to try and track down some of Fred’s haunts. With my cousin’s help we managed to track down the remains of Christ Church, Attercliffe, The Wellington in Darnall, and Fred’s house on a street formally… Continue reading Vlog – finding Fred in Attercliffe and Darnall
Month: July 2016
The sad story of Emma Warburton (Part One)
Content warning: this post mentions domestic violence. At some point in either 1876 or 1877 my great great grandmother, Jane Warburton, at 16 years old would have discovered that marriages were not always happy, in fact they could be ruinous, particularly for a woman. I promised in my Becoming Jane post that Emma, Jane’s older… Continue reading The sad story of Emma Warburton (Part One)
The Spring, clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at Winter’s sadness
In the last post I wished I could have known more about the “Dramatic Entertainment” that Fred had persuaded Janie to come to at the end of February 1879. I was delighted to have that wish granted during some searching through the British Newspaper Archive, I actually found a write up of that event in… Continue reading The Spring, clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at Winter’s sadness
My Darling Janie 