20th Apr 2017

A Station Master’s Story

In January 2016 quite by chance I saw on the BBC News that research was being undertaken to find relatives of people who passed through ‘a long closed Cambridgeshire railway station’ and who had signed books in a Temperance Cafe. On clicking through to the second page the words ‘Peterborough East’ appeared. I knew more… Read More


20th Apr 2017

An afternoon with Bill

We were very fortunate to have a visit from Bill Fulton of the Machine Gun Corps History Project.  Bill, the Grandson of a soldier who served in the Machine Gun Corps, gave a fascinating presentation about this very overlooked and short lived unit who, not surprisingly, were also known as the Suicide Club.   There are… Read More