Dead People – Church and Cemetery There was a halt in transmission due to intermittent and persistent technical problems in addition to failure to fight off a cold which left me somewhat less than energetic. Both issues seem under control and since last writing I have walked, while not exactly all over Inverkeithing but certainly […]
Inverkeithing is on the site of a small river called the Keithing Burn, part of which can still be seen on the northern shore of the Firth (estuary) of Forth (river) north of Edinburgh with settlement extending back beyond 1000 years. http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/2430/name/St.+Peter%27s+Parish+Church+Inverkeithing+Fife http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:49949 It has had provided varied sources of employment apart from those required […]
I forgot to mention in the previous blog that Tadcaster is well known for its ales and for supplying limestone for the construction of York Minster. Pretty sure there used to be a Roman encampment of some kind there too. Today during a visit to the Merchant Adventurer’s Hall in York I learnt that an […]
Yesterday I visited Tacaster on the way to Newton Kyme where rellies had lived and died in the 19th century. Tadcaster is about 20 minutes by bus from York and Newton Kyme about another 10 minutes in a different bus. Bus drivers were helpful and I must have had half of Tadcaster looking out for […]
Relatively Speaking 2 I knew the Danish great grandfather’s mother and family had lived at Vallensbaek, a small community in southern Copenhagen as some births and census returns appear in early records. It is still a rural community albeit with a substantial housing development on its coastal side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallensb%C3%A6k A kind staff member at […]