As a Yorkshireman with Scottish ancestry, I think all we have to do is get rid of London, then the rest of the UK will be fine.

Yes, because the factories were explored "unofficially and without permission" to collect the hundreds of photographs, I actually came across reference to it on the 28dayslater "Urban Exploration" website. Having an ancestor in the family from Stevenston I recognised the referenc...

I thought Threetowners might be interested in this new book. Its only available on-line at the moment, the printed version will be quite expensive due to the cost of colour printing. You can see a preview of the whole book at http://www.blurb.com/books/1034401 I have no connection with this book, ot...

I am quite lucky in that my wife's ancestor Peter Mayor CAMPBELL co-authored a book on Newton In Makerfield, and there are many references in the book to his early life in Ayrshire. The quote I gave above is from the introduction to the book. Eve McLaughlin says some of the historical stuff is twadd...

I've used GEnes Reunited and have been contacted by several members of obscure branches of my tree, including the daughter of a lady I used to send Christmas cards to every year not having a clue who she was - but she's always sent us one. Turns out she was one of my grandfather's neices. I haven't ...

Peter Mayor CAMPBELL was born on the 28th May, 1838, "in a house on the south side of the High-street of Stevenston," a village in Ayrshire, and was the younger son of Robert Cunningham CAMPBELL and his wife Mary, the eldest sister of Peter MAYOR of Coatbridge. On the father's side there w...