History
General Historic content – some may relate to family or other interests and some may just be stuff I find interesting
Topics may include:
- Modern History – stuff that happened in my lifetime
- Changing Landscapes – how transport systems have affected the landscape
- WW2/WW1 – social history
- Edwardian period – railway expansion and related civil engineering, fashion/tailoring – WDF Vincent
- 17th Century – it’s been my hobby for many years
but then again they may not…
Featuring:
The Cardiff Railway
At the turn of the last century, at the height of Cardiff's importance in the world - the place where ...
Cardiff Railway map
I created this map by overlaying the modern OpenStreetMap with the OS 1:25,000 1937-1961 map (courtesy of the National Library ...
W.D.F. Vincent – Tailor and Journalist
W.D.F. Vincent[b. June 1860 d. June 1926] ...
Never mind the Quality… The Vincent Square
The Vincent Square ...
More about W.D.F. Vincent
W.D.F. Vincent b. 18 June 1860 d. 18 June 1926 Introduction by Betty Williams from "Tailoring of the Belle Epoque" ...
The Noble Army of Tailors
These chapters appear towards the end of the original handbook, however as it gives a context to the numbers of ...
The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information
This book was originally published in about 1905. Over time I hope to add some of the contents of it ...
The Advantages of Tailoring
This is the first part of the The Tailor's Handbook of Useful Information which mostly exhorts the health benefits of ...
The Ninth Part of a Man
This is the second part of the book - I have added some links at the end to provide further ...
External Anatomy
This is third part of the book - dealing with External Anatomy and the Proportions of the Body External anatomy ...
History and Philosophy of Clothes
This is from the fourth to the seventh parts of the the handbook looking at the history and philosophy of ...
Origins of clothes and writings for tailors
This is from the the eighth to the thirteenth parts of the handbook, looking at what, today, would be seen ...
Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part one
This is from the fourteenth and fifteenth parts of the handbook, starting to look at where the materials used for ...
Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part two
This is from the sixteenth part of the handbook, finishing the look at where the materials used for making our ...
THE BATTLE OF THE BREEKS
The Tailor and Cutting Academy At JOHN WILLIAMSON CO. LTD. 42, GERRARD STREET, LONDON, W Background: In 1888 (or thereabouts) ...
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