Posts by date: July 2015

Top Ten Hats: Part Two

In this part we would like to introduce five more of the top ten hats. In the collection there are 35 bonnets, nine of which are mourning bonnets. This one dates back to 1890 and is a fine example with… Read more

First World War stories: A Headmaster’s view of the War part 2

In an earlier blog I looked at the first two months of the First World War through the eyes of Alfred Grundy, Headmaster of Whitburn Junior Mixed School. Grundy’s weekly entries in the School log book give us a fascinating… Read more