Sepia Saturday 528: 11 July 2020
Broad streets, shaded sidewalks, elegant buildings: picture postcards always managed to make the ordinary look extraordinary. Whether it is Richmond, Virginia or Rochdale in Lancashire, townscapes and cityscapes are an ever popular subject for old photographs. For Sepia Saturday 528 - post your posts on or around Saturday 11th July 2020 - get out your old photographs of streets and towns, buildings and buses. I have been a bit quiet on the blogging front of late because I have been participating in a 5-week course run by Pharos Tutors on Researching your Welsh ancestors. You can find out more about the tutor Eilir Daniels here on her website. Some of you may already be familiar with my obsession with ancestor Margaret Jones. "Not her again!", I hear you cry. Yes, Margaret. Sorry. We, family historians, nag at old ancestors like a dog with a bone. I'm beginning to think DNA will be my only hope of finding out exactly where in Caernarvonshire dear Marg...