Welcome

A warm welcome from Alannah Eileen, our newest family member, and from me. The website has been here since 2007 but she only joined us in 2023.

I regularly add new material and you can see what is here by clicking the panels below. You can use any kind of device, but some sections contain detailed images and tables that are better viewed on tablets, laptops or workstations.

You can use the Feedback page to comment or ask questions and I will help you if I can. If you spot any errors please let me know. Comments are added to the visitors book.

Memorials and Memories

► The Merchant Navy Memorial at Tower Hill
► Biographies and Recollections: Ordinary people with extraordinary stories

Ships and Docks

► The Allen Collection of ship photos
► Athenia - Passenger ship sunk on the day Britain declared war on Germany
► Battleships and Cruisers
► British India
► Court Line
► The Dempster Collection of ship photos
► Funnels and Flags - the Livery of British merchant ships

More Ships and Docks

► P&O 'M' class passenger ships
► The ships of John Milligen & Co.
► "A Pebble in the Ocean" - the story of SS Manipur/HMS Sandhurst
► Ship Histories
► Shipping Snippets - Miscellaneous articles about shipping
► Stephanotis - an Edwardian steam yacht and her owners
► TheShipList - republication of fleet information from a defunct website
► The Whole Hog - history of Hog Island including the shipyard

Energy

► "Power to the People" - Building the National Grid in the 1920s/1930s

Postcards

► Hugh Dempster's Scottish Vessels collection
► Geoff Topp's collection covering Docks and Ships on Merseyside, The Wirral and Wales
► Reg Watson's 'P&O Years' collection
► Richard Crow's British India SN Postcards.

Transport

► Blackpool Trams in the 1980s
► George Milligen's veteran cars, tractors, engines etc.

General History & Travel

► "All My Own Work"
► A Cruise on Moldavia in 1936
► Diary of a journey to India and Back in 1914
► The Imperial Durbars and Indian Independence

Entertainment and Exhibitions

► "The Heiress and the Cowboy" - biographies of Vera Milligen and Tex McLeod
► The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
► Showmen - The largely-forgotten men who created exhibition sites and amusement parks in the Victorian and Edwardian eras
► White City - Britain's Greatest Lost Exhibition Site

Links and Information Sources

► A collection of links to assist historical, nautical and genealogical research including old newspaper archives, and even a page about cryptology and spies.