As Shakespeare famously has it in Romeo and Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” In other words,...
You can be forgiven for thinking that the heartless practice of sending orphaned and abandoned children to overseas colonies was a modern one. We are familiar with the heart breaking...
[caption id="attachment_314" align="aligncenter" width="578"] The Mayflower II, a replica, in Plymouth Harbour, Mass. (Image: Paul Keleher.) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mayflower_II.jpg [/caption] OCEAN WILD (lyrics) Four hundred years and more they came, Father, mother,...
FIRE: The cotton mill disaster that echoed down the generations(published by Troubador.) I came across my maternal great grandfather’s relatively early death in a cotton mill fire while doing extensive...
I was born in Stockport on February 14, 1945 – St. Valentine’s Day. I grew up believing my father was a man called Walter Hulme. He married my mother in...
