Changing Times | Festive essentials around town in years past
Every year we rush towards Christmas, making out our various lists, but we must always remember to send the Christmas cards. One hundred and fifty years ago, however, we would have sent a Christmas postcard. When the first postage
Buildings were home from home for children Town’s seafront was the location of landmark convalescent homes
How MANY people can remember Cambridge or Surrey House? Not many of you I suspect so that is why I thought this week we could have a look at just a few buildings which have been demolished. We start
Health | Focus can help to be strong in a crisis
If YOU read my column last week, you will know that I have been in Washington DC delivering talks for an incredible empowering event called the #WEC18 – Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference 2018. It was amazingly uplifting for everyone who
Changing Time’s | Colourful past reflects fashions of the times
I THOUGHT we should look at fashionable buildings, but what is fashionable? According to the dictionary, it is conforming to fashion or being in vogue. According to Gerard Young, the local historian, he reported in 1959 that he felt