Essex - home to cricket, the wireless, confusing street names and forgotten graves
August 26th 2014 Departing London we headed to Chelmsford in Essex, North-East of the capital. As this required a transit between two of London's mainline train stations at peak hour and doing battle on the Tube with increasingly heavy suitcases in tow did not appeal, we opted for a black cab. After taking steps to ensure the cab we would board at the rank at Euston Station was actually black, as opposed to some o
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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more 
