Kirklees Cousins

Account of one man's war - how a soldier in a Bantam Battalion found himself at Passchendael.

The origin of the Archer name and the the first known Archer family of Dewsbury.

Memorial to Frank Bottom, a Lay Preacher, who died at the age of 30, in Thornhill, West Yorkshire.

The origins of the Hemingway family in Southowram and a connection with the writing of Emily Bronte.

The story of John Hemingway of Dewsbury, WR Yorkshire, who was Master Mason on the stonework of the world famous Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait. John was a partner…