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Fabulous Collection of Victorian Property Sale Posters
I love this collection of posters, relating to properties in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire which I'll be adding to www.pastonpaper.com later on today, time allowing.
Letter to Miss Saul transcribed
Earlier today I posted up a small letter addressed to Miss B Saul of South Kensington with handwriting that I just could not get my head round. One quick tweet later, and London based genealogist Judy Lester (@KerryWoodLondon) came to the rescue within about 10...
Smallpox Innoculations, Boston, 1792, Bradford / Barton / Eaton Family Bible
From the large leatherbound Bible of the Bradford / Barton / Eaton Family from Philidelphia and Boston USA coming soon to the website, this remarkable snippet documenting smallpox innoculation in Boston at the time of the great smallpox epidemic of 1792. This...
Unnamed Women in Fabulous Dresses, Liverpool, 1860s
At the moment I'm going through my stock of photos etc., in an attempt to upload as many of the identifiable one as possible to the pastonpaper.com preview site. The whole purpose of pastonpaper.com is to link genealogists with items unavailable in archives elsewhere,...
The Asylum For Idiots – a Noble Institiution, 1872
Found in The Times
Whilst going through our massive stack of Times Newspapers for listing, a bit of googling led me to this nice Found in The Times blog. I've lots of copies here, if Emily would like to borrow some for continued blogging...
An Intriguing Chap
From The Times, 30th November 1872
Lambon Family
We have on the site a nice set of Carte De Visites of The Lambon Family, Photographed by Harry Cecil Turner, at 14 Pentonville Road, London in 1883. Would love to hear from relatives. Full details on www.pastonpaper.com
Pagination Problem in Search results
There is a problem with the page selection links in search results. This is being worked on now. NOW FIXED Though not working quite how I'd like, please bare with me while I work to improve this.
Preview Site now Live!
I have just finally removed the popover from the front of pastonpaper.com so you can now have a look around at the initial site. Â At the moment it is missing huge amounts of functionality, but I'll be getting this in place soon. It's still just me working alone, so if...
