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Category: Art, Sport & Performance

One Photograph, Four Generations

Two men in early 20th century clothing sitting on a vintage motorcycle by a waterfront with people and benches in the background

One faded photograph of a 1920s motorcycle outing transformed my understanding of a grandfather I had known only as a bitter old man

Natalie Mayhew Art, Sport & Performance, Britain & Ireland May 14, 2026June 23, 2026 4 Minutes

From the Goal Line to the Front Line

The story of Chelsea goalkeeper William Krug who joined the 17th Middlesex (1st Football) Battalion at the start of the Great War.

Natalie Mayhew Art, Sport & Performance, First World War May 23, 2022June 23, 2026 8 Minutes

After the war

Peter Mayhew (1929-1980): life in the immediate post-war years, National Service, and a career in the British film industry

Natalie Mayhew Art, Sport & Performance, Britain & Ireland, Second World War December 27, 2021June 23, 2026 7 Minutes

Funny Where Life Took Them
Some of the surnames on this site — click one to find stories behind it

Bailey Baker Banfield Banfield aka Wackrill Barrett Baynes Booth Bovill Bowes-Lyon Brevoort Bristow Brock Carson Chaldecott Collingwood Conway-Gordon Coolidge Cooper Cotton Courtauld Daley Dibben Dowman Down Earle Finch Fitzgerald Gordon Hall Harvey Hill Irving Kirby Krug Lane? Levens Mayhew Mayo Napier Obee Payne Poulton Rose Saumarez Sheldrake Todd Twohey Wackrill Whetten

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