Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡

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Family historian, blogger, podcast guest and speaker. Pharos Intermediate Certificate. Also Mum, wife, and full-time public servant of 34 years and counting. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudy www.allthosebefore.co.uk

A view of the Amelia Scott building in Tunbridge Wells. It brings together a Victorian Adult Education Centre, a 1930s library with a modern building joining the two.
A closeup of a stained glass window in bright blue and turquoise. On the left is the image of a small animal - most likely a horse.
A map centred on the town of Tunbridge Wells in Kent. A large area is highlighted with a red border, indicating that there is currently no water supply.
A scenic view of a historical pedestrianised thoroughfare known as ‘The Pantiles’ in Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The town was founded on the discovery of iron-rich waters, with alleged healing powers. This was the area where well-to-do visitors would take the waters, eat, drink and be entertained.
A photo of the side of a pub, adorned with a spray-painted image of the England footballer Jude Bellingham. The artist is Humor Street Art.
A view of the interior of a pub that was formerly an opera house. Some of the seating and boxes have been p, while at ground floor level it is much more like a typical pub.
A chocolate ice-cream in the foreground with a blurred computer screen behind, displaying a historic will.
An ancestral fan chart, with segments fanning out from the target person in the centre. All the segments of known ancestors are coloured blue.
A statue of the Duke of Wellington on a horse. Both the Duke and the horse have traffic cones on their heads. In the foreground is a statue of a Scottie dog. It, too, has a traffic cone on its head.
A modern lecture centre building on a university campus.
The side of a house, caught in the evening sunshine: part rendered, but with wooden beams and brickwork showing too. At the base there are hollyhocks growing.
A glass bottle containing a small bunch of sweet peas. The flowers are two-tone magenta and purple, and they’re lit up by the sunshine.
A view inside a large cave complex. The rock displays a range of different colours, from amber to red. In the foreground is a large pool of, while a passage disappears from the back.
A close-up picture of a garden border, focusing mainly on the daisy-like plant Erigeron karvinskianus.
A modern stained glass window. In the centre in blue is an image of Mary holding the infant Jesus. On either side are soldiers parachuting from the skies.
A black and white photograph of a sculpture of a WW2 Air Force pilot. The background is grey and foggy but the outline of the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne in Kent is just visible.
A certificate showing that the poster achieved a distinction in the Family History Skills and Strategies Intermediate Course run by Pharos Tutors and endorsed by the Society of Genealogists.
A view of Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire. The West Tower is shown on the left, with the Octagon in the centre. In the foreground are trees and grass, with a blue sky above.
A brown cockapoo dog asleep on the carpet, rather than in his bed just behind.
Bright pink flowers with five petals are held on long stems above feathery green leaves.
A message from South East Water explaining that they do not plan to implement a hosepipe ban this summer and that both reservoirs and underground water sources are at normal levels.
Sitting on a stone worktop is a small glass vase holding three stems of sweet pea flowers, which are two-tone burgundy and magenta.
An aerial view of a stone church with a red-tiled roof. Set a little distance from the church itself is a separate bell tower. Surrounding both is the churchyard, village and fields beyond.
A wedding photo, with the groom (left) gently leaning in to kiss his bride (right).
A large group of students and parents gathered in a school hall. The projection on the screen says ‘Class of 2026’.
A solid wooden door in a brick building. Above the door is a carving of grapes and vines.
A straight, flat drove in the Fens in Cambridgeshire. The verges are full of cow parsley, an ash tree is in the middle distance, and the sky is blue with white clouds.
A screenshot from a weather forecast, indicating that the chances of rain during the afternoon are over 95%.
A quotation from an article in a genealogy magazine which explains that unless you are descended from nobility or the landed gentry then the chances of researching your family history back to 1066 are practically zero.
A brown cockapoo dog sitting in his basket with a black and yellow Tonka Toy.
A printed map of the Chester and Llangollen Canal network in England. It shows bridges and locks, the early closing day of various villages and towns, nearby pubs and other places of interest.
A white bluebell, growing in grass in a shady spot. In the background are lots of blue bluebells.
A garden border with a wide range of perennial plants, only a few of which are in fl. on the left is a parched, dry lawn.
A sharp corner of a modern building, clad in wooden strips aligned on the diagonal. At the bottom are two large windows. A gull sits on the front corner, surrounded by blue sky.
On the left, a traditional church spire. On the right, a curved, modern structure covered in small circular discs.
A painted panel on the end of a wooden chest. The bottom section includes the Magi visiting the infant Jesus, bearing gifts. In the centre of the image, on a path in the background, is a procession of animals, including camels and a giraffe. At the top - in the sky - are cherubic angels.
A painting depicting a scene from Shakespeare’s play ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’. The character standing in the centre is Valentine, with Proteus kneeling on the right, Silvia kneeling on the left, with Julia leaning against a tree on the far left.
A Romanesque archway on the left with an ornate wooden door. In the centre is a plain stone wall, while there’s a continuation of the Romanesque style on the far right.
A 12th century Romanesque archway with a wooden door decorated with intricate ironwork.
Most of the picture is taken up by a wall made of different types and sizes of stone, bricks and tiles. At the top is a curved stone arch, with a semi circular window.
The window of a cheese shop. The left and right sides contain pillars with decorative tiles. Below the glass is a contrasting panel of tiles.
A path through a wood carpeted with bluebells, and a cheeky brown cockapoo dog in the bottom right hand corner.
A wedding photo showing the bride (left) and the groom (right)
A very dark coloured insect - probably a species of bee - resting on the soil in the garden.
A single bluebell flower stem highlighted within a woodland of bluebells. This one is unusual in that that each individual flower starts off white nearest to the stem, but fades into the usual blue/violet colour at the tip.
The background of this picture shows a substantial house, out of focus. The foreground is the mast of a boat with red, white and blue bunting.
The delicate flowers of wood anemones - pale lilac petals (although these are the backs of the flowers) and lots of their ferny leaves.
A picture of a Wallis & Steevens Advance steam roller. It is painted a chocolate brown colour, while the chimney is black with a brass ring at the top.
A view from inside a large cantilevered timber roof. At the far end is an apse, which mirrors the shape of a ship’s bow.
My late mother-in-law Kath - here, she’s a young woman wearing a tweed suit. This may have been an engagement photo from 1949-50.
A cross decorated with ivy, narcissi and arum lilies attached to the gate of a church. The church can be seen in the background.
The box, playing board and coloured pegs from the 1970s game called Mastermind.
A den in the woods, made from loose branches propped up against the slim trunks of trees growing at an angle. The woodland floor is still covered with the leaves from last autumn.
An advertisement for wild boar rides in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. It pictures a person wearing a safety helmet riding on a large wild boar.
The front cover of the newly published book entitled ‘Genealogy methods and techniques: a practical guide to research’ by Dr Karen Cummings. The background colour is a mid-violet tone and on the right is an image of a tree.
A ceramic puffin, on a desk with three pebbles and a posy of primroses and muscari in a tiny vase.
A street scene dating from 1902 which shows several goats sitting by the side of the road. A few pedestrians look on, somewhat puzzled at the sight.
A causeway road runs across the picture from left to right, with sand in the foreground and sea behind. Towards the right is a stone base with a large pole mounted on it. The pole has bars to climb should a person be cut off when the tide covers the causeway.