History
Last Updated on 4th March 2026
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:
Landscape, Railways and Canals
Changing Landscapes
Ever since humans first flattened a piece of land for crops or dug out ground for a house, we have ...
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 ...
The Cardiff Railway
At the turn of the last century, at the height of Cardiff's importance in the world - the place where ...
W.D.F. Vincent and Tailoring History
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) ...
Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part two
This is from the sixteenth part of The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information, finishing the look at where the materials ...
Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part one
This is from the fourteenth and fifteenth parts of The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information, starting to look at where ...
Origins of clothes and writings for tailors
This is from the the eighth to the thirteenth parts of The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information, looking at what, ...
History and Philosophy of Clothes
This is from the fourth to the seventh parts of The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information looking at the history ...
External Anatomy
This is third part of the The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information - dealing with External Anatomy and the Proportions ...
The Ninth Part of a Man
This is the second part of The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information - I have added some links at the ...
The Advantages of Tailoring
This is the first part of The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information which mostly exhorts the health benefits of the ...
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 Noble Army of Tailors
These chapters appear towards the end of the original Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information, however as it gives a context ...
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" ...
Never mind the Quality… The Vincent Square
The Vincent Square ...
W.D.F. Vincent – Tailor and Journalist
W.D.F. Vincent[b. June 1860 d. June 1926] ...
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