Frances Bevan

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A Hi De Hi Birthday

With a birthday falling in the long summer holidays I was never faced with the dilemma of whether to risk bunking off school, although in all honesty with my mum it was never an option.

Our Belfast holiday

If like me you remember the daily news broadcasts from Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 80s, Belfast might not seem an obvious choice as a holiday destination.

Armed Forces Day

On the day the nation celebrated Armed Forces Day I found the grave of a First World War soldier at Radnor Street Cemetery.

It's all downhill from here

Exactly two years ago I started walking. Not for the first time of course, I’d grasped the basics at roughly the correct age but to be perfectly honest that’s about as physically active as I’ve ever been. Even as a child I never ran around a lot, and once I left school, well that was it really.

Radnor Street Cemetery is full of life!

Yesterday evening we enjoyed another guided walk around Radnor Street cemetery, despite leadened skies which threatened rain but thankfully held off until the very end.

Radnor Street Cemetery

The theme of this week has definitely been walking. Yesterday Leah and I joined a guided walk round Rodbourne in the company of Gordon and Ernie from the Rodbourne Community History Group. Founded in 2005 this group is committed to recording the history of the area and the thriving community that lives there.

Swindon Photographs online

As the Radnor Street Cemetery walks approach I’m busy taking tips on how to deliver my research. Humour is a great tool but in a cemetery has to be handled sensitively. And how do I detach myself from my security blanket notes?