Hull’s Museum Quarter is a real treasure trove for all ages. The Streetlife Museum is billed as a transport museum and is principally the collection opened on a different site in 1925 by Hull’s first curator, Thomas Shepperd, but much has been added since, to encompass all aspects of transport and social history in Hull [...]

The Humber Bridge Song.   In our early history Julius Caesar crossed the sea To this island off the Northern coast of France. Then some other Romans came to treat us just the same And they stayed a little longer just by chance. They came, they saw, they conquered everything that they could see ‘Til [...]

                                                                                  Front: ‘The Glorious First of June’.                                                                                    Back – enlarged for ease of reading.   *Images from my own card collection.  The phrase, ’84 Honours and Awards’ refers to the medals awarded to Price’s Patent Candle Co. Ltd. at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908, where they won two grand prizes for the quality of their [...]

On this day, April 12th, 1955, Jonas Salk, after much research done on monkey kidney cells, announced the successful creation of a vaccine against the dreadful illness, Polio. Most people knew someone who had either suffered the debilitating effects of polio or who had died from it. The announcement of a vaccine that could go [...]

I have no idea where it came from. It wasn’t the sort of thing any member of my family would ever have intentionally owned. Probably a jumble sale find. My arms were lost inside its sleeves and as I struggled to walk in high-heeled shoes far too big for me, it trailed on the ground [...]