What's New

Details of changes, updates and additions to these pages

• 1 February 2015 - several more new factoids and a couple of minor updates to the Down the garden page.
• 2 January 2014 - added a page of photos and information about the holly blue butterfly, its caterpillars, eggs and parasitoids.
• 31 December 2013 - yet more factoids.
• 30 March 2013 - Several more factoids.
• 10 Feb 2013 - An update to the labelled version of the wedding photograph on the Coppock Genealogy page; several more factoids; updates to the links file.
• 28 April 2012 - a few more factoids.
• 16 March 2012 - after a long delay (sorry!), a big heap of photos now uploaded in "web album" format, including a new set of objects from under the lounge floor, and a couple of sets of wildlife photos from the garden. See the links at the bottom of the intro sections on the Under the floorboards and Down the garden pages. Oh, and a few new factoids, of course!
• 3 April 2011 - we've got a robin nesting in the garden
• 5 February 2011 - added a page with links to a complete scan of the service manual for the Sony CRF 230 radio receiver.
• 23 October 2010 - Major updates to several pages, including many new photos on the "Down the Garden" nd "Under the Garden" pages and improvements to presentation of photos.
• 26 October 2009 - Corrected the identification of the Satellite moth (Eupsilia transversa) (previously misidentified as Lesser Common Rustic moth (Mesapamea didyma). (Thanks to Carol Stafford of Archangel Plants for this correction)
• 17th October 2009 - Another set of new moth photos on the "down the garden" page; Size of some existing photos reduced to 1024 x 768 (download times of larger originals being somewhat long even on broadband).
• 5th October 2009 - A new page of photographs for you to download for use as desktop backgrounds; A heap more photos on the Down the Garden page; Minor updates to the Links page; Correction of photograph previously identified as leopard slug to show as yellow slug (Limacus flavus) on the Down the garden page (thanks to Heike Kappes at Universität zu Köln for this information.)
• 9th September 2009 - Several more wildlife photos on the Down the garden page.
• 5th July 2009 - a heap of new wildlife photos linked at the bottom of the Down the garden page, plus a few minor errors fixed.
• 1st February 2009 - minor updates to several pages, added a link to the set of pages John wrote to promote his home made jams, jellies, chutneys etc.
• 11 January 2009 - Updates (with several new photographs) to both the Down the garden and Under the garden pages; A new page of Collier photographs; one additional item (previously missed) in the Under the floorboards page and yet more Factoids!
• 22 April 2008 - Major updates to the Sales genealogy pages; changes to some image files to improve download speed; Added several bits of new information in garden, floorboards and genealogy sections, plus one or two more factoids.
• 18 November 2007 - Added a set of photographs of the Lindsey family, plus a few of the Ormondroyd family. Also, as usual, one or two more oddments in the "Down the garden" and "Factoids" pages.
• 1 November 2007 - Several pages updated to use photographic backgrounds (Firefox users can select the view they prefer via the View / Page Style menu); Updated information on the antique gaming counter on the Under the Floorboards page, and another couple of new Factoids.
• 28 September 2007 - Major updates to the Lindsey pages in the Genealogy section, plus minor updates to the Wallwork pages (we've killed off a few ancestors who erroneously showed as "living" in our database).
• 8 September 2007 - a few new Factoids; reversed the order of this file to show most recent changes first; minor updates to the Links page
• 2 September 2007 - added the new under the garden page, with details of artefacts dug up in the garden, plus a couple of updates with new information in items found under the floorboards.
• 27 August 2007 - several new bugs 'n beasties added to the Down the garden page.
• 4 May 2007 - major updates to the Sales and Coppock genealogy databases; a few additions to the Notable Wallworks ,Down the garden and Under the floorboards pages, plus a few new Factoids
• 13 May 2006 - major updates to the genealogy database pages in the Sales Genealogy section; several new Factoids fixed filename error on Coppock Genealogy page (sorry!).
• 7 March 2006 - minor update to Sales Genealogy page with information on other variations on the name.
• 5 March 2006 - added this file, also Factoids and Notable Wallworks files. Minor updates to the timeline file.