Michael Mayhew’s life spanned poverty, gamekeeping, labouring and successful carrier work, tracing his family’s movement from Norfolk to Suffolk and establishing a lasting transport business.
From Pauper to Successful Carrier
Category: 🛠️ Occupations
The Sage of Grindelwald
Mountaineering has evolved from a feared challenge to a popular sport, influenced by figures like William Coolidge, who achieved remarkable climbs and contributed significantly to Alpine scholarship.
A Brief Wartime Marriage
In July 1915, Constance "Sissie" Brock married well-known cricketer Guy Napier during his brief leave from World War I, but he died just 71 days later.
One Photograph, Four Generations
One faded photograph of a 1920s motorcycle outing transformed my understanding of a grandfather I had known only as a bitter old man
A Woman of Her Own Making
Catherine Dibben (1850-1934) rose from a poor Hayling Island childhood to running a successful boarding house and inspiring four generations of women
Twins and the Paths of Poverty and Prosperity
Henry Mayhew (1812-1881) and Priscilla Mayhew (1812–1886): born together, lives apart - twins in an age of change
The Man Who Bent New York’s Broadway
Henry Brevoort (1747–1841) resisted change, influencing Manhattan's layout while practicing Native American folk medicine
A ‘desperate state of things’
Alexander Cameron Brock (1855-1898) a forgotten family story, uncovered through hospital archives, reveals the quiet tragedy of a Victorian doctor lost to mental illness
A Voyage of Controversy
Peter Poulton (1925–2004) sailed aboard HMS Pickle during the historic 1946 voyage that marked the end of Sarawak’s White Rajahs
Witness to surrender: Far East 1945-46
Peter Poulton (1925-2004) left behind photographs and letters that illuminate his wartime experiences in the Far East during and after World War II
