There are four additions to the web site this month.

I have added another page of extracts from Jim Taylor's WW2 letters from June and July 1941 when he was in Durban. It must have been a strange time for him as he waited for the news that he had become a father. Can anyone find a photograph of the Victoria League Club at 209 Pine Street, Durban to include with the text of the letters he wrote there?

The page for John Johnston has been rewritten to include information on two of the ships he commanded. There is a useful reference to the Caledonia in a letter writen in 1818, and an entry for the Ocean in a Registry of Shipping from 1822. Both confirm that John Johnston was the shipmaster at the time.

I'm very grateful to enthusiast Ian Coleman for not just identifying the aircraft Mark Burgess was helping to manufacture during WW1 but also providing so much background information on them for a WW1 Aircraft page.

In the Photo Album section I have made a start on displaying old photographs of extended family members even if I don't know that much about them. The first subject is my great great aunt Frances Amelia Looker who married a prison warder, Walter Miles. Note his magnificent beard.

 

Updated 25th November 2009