One Hundred Days of History

During the research for my last book, Preston on Stour: A Two Thousand Year History, I came across dozens of stories of people who had s...

These bone fragments have all been found associated with the Romano-British community discussed over the past few days. They probably c...

This mill stone stands by the church gate on the village green. How it came to be there is a mystery, but it has been in this location fo...

                                               Preston's bells.   The church tower, showing the door and windows for the b...

Music was once a key part of religious worship, and organs commonly found in early churches. Following the Civil War (1642-49) Engl...

  Several tombs in Preston's churchyard, generally those belonging to wealthier landowners, were once surrounded with iron railings...

By 1938, war considered inevitable. The Aerodromes Board began searching Britain for suitable sites to be used as military airfield...