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End Of An Era …..

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Me in top aft cabin of Beachcomber with photo of Maureen O’Hara.
Talk Solent chat show, August, 2015. Left to right, presenter Shan Robins, myself, Joan Ellis and B Jones. ©Come Step Back In Time
Talk Solent Chat Show
Goodwood Revival 2015 (TV)
Stills from BBC One’s, Inside Out South East’s ‘Sultan and The Showgirl’, 1930s set drama-documentary. I was an expert contributor. October, 2015.
©Come Step Back In Time
1960s selfie at Goodwood Revival 2015.
Me with Peter Brock.
A perfect example of Goodwood Revival retro styling coupled with a nod to modernity. ©Come Step Back In Time
Great British Bake-Off finalist, Miranda Gore Browne demonstrating cake-making in The Kenwood Kitchen Theatre. ©Come Step Back In Time
Great British Bake-Off contestant, Brendan Lynch demonstrating in The Kenwood Kitchen Theatre. ©Come Step Back In Time
Burlesque baker, Charlotte White, demonstrating in The Kenwood Kitchen Theatre. ©Come Step Back In Time
Goodwood Revival 2015.
©Come Step Back In Time
That’s Solent TV (That’s TV) Solent News, with presenter Mark Stewart. Live segment, ‘Make Do and Mend’. Broadcast 20th April, 2015. ©Come Step Back In Time
Various V.E. Day 70 inspired segments for That’s Solent TV. Topics included: rationbook recipes; Make Do and Mend and vintage fashions. Broadcast April/May, 2015. ©Come Step Back In Time My ration book feast, inspired by recipes from my the pages of my collection of vintage cookery books. ©Come Step Back In Time
Food Glorious Food (ITV)
My Grandmother WW2
1930s Beach Fun!
‘World War One: A Contemporary Conversation’ exhibition, at The National Library of New Zealand. (http://natlib.govt.nz/). ©National Library of New Zealand.
Image courtesy of Eric Heijink (http://www.secondworldwar.nl/hengelo-1940-1945.php)
My grandmother’s wedding dress, beautiful thick, blue satin, made by her best friend. My mother and I are currently restoring this dress back to its former glory. ©Come Step Back In Time
©Come Step Back In Time
The Schuit family from Hengelo. Dick and Henrik are the two young boys picture standing-up. ©Come Step Back In Time (The Langley Family Archive)
My grandfather’s story featured in Hengelo’s Weekblad newspaper (24.3.2015, p. 15 – http://www.hengelosweekblad.nl). Thanks to all the hard work by historian Eric Heijink!
Selfie at The Wallace Collection.
©Come Step Back In Time
Grandparents 1940
Having great fun with broadcaster and media specialist, Di Evans. Image courtesy of the Reel Media Deal.
With Michelin Chef Adam Gray & DJ BBQ
Me with Chef Adam Gray and presenter/musical theatre star Craig Price. Image Courtesy of Craig Price.
BBC Inside Out (South East) – Hever Castle
With Michelin Chef Adam Gray doing our food history homework at the Skylon restaurant, London. Chef Gray brought his 1869 copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Image courtesy of the Reel Media Deal.
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. ©Come Step Back In Time
Me with Anne Zielinski-Old at the open day. ©Mary Evans Picture Library
Folkestone, 4th August 2014. ©Come Step Back In Time
Lucy Adlington. ©Come Step Back In Time.
  • Pictorial highlights from some of my many blogging adventures with Come Step Back In Time. (More images at end of article).

I published my first article on Come Step Back In Time in July 2011 and after 5 incredible years this post will, sadly, be my last. I have thoroughly enjoyed every second of writing this blog but the time has now come to embark on exciting new  challenges. I will always be very proud of Come Step Back In Time and this blog will remain live for as long as the WordPress platform continues to exist.

This blog contains 185 articles, most of which are long read. Final word count stands at 280k, equivalent to 3 full-length novels or 3 PhDs. Phew! No wonder I have bags under my eyes.  At the end of this post, I have curated some of my favourite articles.

Come Step Back In Time will always have a very special place in my heart. It has brought me great creative joy, new friendships as well as many media opportunities, on television, radio, podcasts and in print, including BBC, ITV and Channel 4, to name but a few. 

Thank-you to each and every one of you that have read Come Step Back In Time, taken the time to comment, e-mail me, follow my blog(s) and offer me fabulous opportunities. I will always be extremely grateful for your support.

If you wish to contact me, my e-mail address will still be: astepbackintimeinfo [@] yahoo.co.uk

Emma.XX

Honour Roll: My Favourite Come Step Back In Time Articles 

Producer/Director Sam Supple (@SamSups) on set. ©Come Step Back In Time
Bursledon Windmill, Hampshire. ©Come Step Back In Time.
©Come Step Back In Time
Southwick House
©Come Step Back in Time
©Come Step Back In Time. Portrait of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay. Southwick House (Southwick Park), Fareham, Hampshire. Defence School of Policing and Guarding (DSPG).
War Room Pass Southwick House. D-Day.
Bournemouth Pier, 2011. ©Come Step Back In Time.
Hythe Pier, Hampshire, November, 2013. Opened on the 1st January, 1881. The tramway opened in 1909. After the First World War, a second-hand locomotive was purchased from the Avon Mustard Gas Factory and brought into use on the pier in 1922. It still operates today. The pier is one of the longest in Britain. ©Come Step Back In Time.
Hastings pier, November 2013. ©Come Step Back In Time.
Replica bathing machine used by King George III when he visited the seaside town of Weymouth. He spent 14 summers between 1789 and 1805 there. ©Come Step Back in Time.
Brighton’s Palace pier, November 2013. Opened on the 20th May, 1889.
©Come Step Back In Time.
Royal Marines Museum ©Come Step Back In Time.
Hannah Snell, Royal Marines Museum.
‘Per Mare, Per Terram’ – by Sea and Land. Moto of The Royal Marines.
Postcard showing the Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley.
Edward Fox and his wife Joanna David who gave a wonderful tribute to Dickens including reading aloud extracts from some of his novels. © Come Step Back in Time.
Oliver Dickens with his great, great, great, grandfather. © Come Step Back in Time.
Abel Magwitch and Molly. Film still from Magwitch (2013). Image courtesy of Violafilms.
Grandmother favoured a braided hair style with deep ‘waves’ framing the face.
The lady standing-up is my great, great, grandmother. Photograph is dated c.1911.
©Come Step Back in Time. To the right and left of image examples of Coalport’s Parian Porcelain. Two icepails c.1850. Parian is a type of unglazed porcelain with a dense texture and a pure white finish, similar to Greek Parian marble. Coalport stop using this technique in the 1860s.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Example of one of the staff costumes made by The Costume Project for Kew Palace.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. A Reproduction (1) Corset from the 1890s made by The Costume Project team. Notice the beautiful stitch detail on the corset.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Reproduction 2 of the Mantua Gown 1740s, made by The Costume Project at Ironbridge.
©Come Step Back in Time. Inside McClures General Draper and Outfitters, no. 3 Canal Street, Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. An original building from Stafford Place, Oakengates, Telford (exterior and shop front only). c.1880. Opened on site on 4th Apri, 2009.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. View of the Iron Bridge over the River Severn.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The Pharmacy at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire.
Sledge on display in The Oates Gallery. Fully-loaded a sledge needed 4 men to pull it. Some sledges were 10ft long (3m) others were 12ft long (3.65m) and could weigh 1,121lbs (51kg) when loaded with equipment and rations. Birdie Bowers wrote:’…I have never pulled so hard or so nearly crushed my inside into my backbone by the everlasting jerking on the canvas band round my unfortunate tummy.’
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Runaway tree – wax on mirror back series, 2009. © Felicity Powell
Jane Austen Festival, Bath, 2011.
Jane Austen Festival, Bath, 2011.
Gilbert White’s study at The Wakes. The desk shown may have been the original desk owned by Gilbert.
Glasses and case belonging to Jane Austen’s mother. On display at Lyme Regis Museum.
Inside the 1940s sweet shop. Milestones.
Shawl, feathers and cap of bronze mesh with gold sequins. C.1928. Dazzle Exhibition. HCC Arts & Museums.
Dazzle Exhibition. Gosport Gallery, Gosport, Hampshire.
White satin shoe with oval diamante trim. High curved and waisted Louis heel covered in white plastic, painted with a design on an Egyptian theme in red, green and gold and inset with multi coloured diamonte. Printed label Debenham and Freebody. Wigmore St. C.1935. Dazzle Exhibition.C.1988.124. HCC Arts & Museums.
Blists Hill Christmas Grocers.
Barlaston Hall. The imposing country house that greets the visitor at the start of the long driveway leading-up to The Wedgwood Museum. This is now a private residence and is only ocassionally open to the public for pre-booked visits. The house was built in 1756-8 for lawyer Thomas Mills from Leek. It overlooks the Trent Valley and the octagonal diamond sash windows are a rare surviving trademark of Taylor’s work.
The Apotheosis of Homer Vase. Cylindrical pedestal with white reliefs of fruiting vines, medallions, lions’ heads, ribbons and trophies. Solid blue Jasper Relief decoration modelled by John Flaxman. C.1790.
This was my favourite photograph from the exhibition, ladies inspecting one of the new, Creda, electric cooker in the 1920s. This photograph is in the St. Barbe Museum collection.
Local actor Bruce Clitherow reading from William Retford’s Memoirs of Growing-up in Ashley.
From left to right: ‘sir’ John Pheasant; ‘sir’ Michael Moore; ‘sir’ Graham Hart and ‘sir’ David Winney.
Jacqui Wood demonstrating prehistoric cooking techqniques at Buckland Ring Iron Age hillfort, Lymington, Hampshire.
Some of the pretty seafront architecture in Lyme Regis.
Snazzy, vintage rubber bathing hat. Portsmouth City Museum.
Marchpane made by Mike and Jasmine Goodman. Mike’s marchpane depicts Lymington’s Coat of Arms, a sailing vessel.
The Tudor Parlour, c.1560, at Avebury Manor, Avebury, Wiltshire. The table is laid with Pewtor ware which became increasingly more poppular amongst the well-to-do than wood fashioned table ware.
Emblem worn by 1908 British Olympian Clarence Brickwood Kingsbury. Clarence won two gold medals in cycling. The emblem was sewn onto the front of his jersey. From a recent display about Clarence at Portsmouth City Museum.
Loom 10 in the weaving shed showing a Hattersley Dobby loom by William Smith & Bros Ltd of Heywood Lancashire, built in the nineteenth century.
An enthusiastic crowd brave the dreadful weather in Mayflower Park.
A member of Tudor re-enactment group, The Hungerford Household. Tudor knitting.
The floating Flemyngs monument, St. Nicolas Church, North Stoneham.
Interior of Hurst Castle’s Garrison Theatre.
Diamond Jubilee cupcakes that I made for my neighbours to celebrate this momentous event.
Well wishes to the Queen from Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.
Inside of a 19th century croft house in the Highlands of Scotland. Colbost Folk Museum, Colbost, Isle of Skye.
Interior of Bailey’s Maestro Caravan, 1955.
Traditional 1950s, British living room setting at Portsmouth City Museum. Not everyone in post-war austerity Britain could afford to have the latest modern design interiors that emerged during this decade.
Liz Tilley hat box 1950s. St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire.
My family at Pevensey Castle, East Sussex. 1955. ©Come Step Back In Time
Family picnic on Galleywood Common. 1957. My grandad’s pride and joy, the Ford Consul can be seen in the background. My grandma wearing her high heels for the ocassion of a picnic always amuses my aunt.
Me on the balcony at MShed Museum. To create the look, I took an old Marks and Spencers faux-fur hat, cut-off the brim and fashioned a pillbox style hat. The brim I attached to the neck of an old black, button-through cardigan to create a stylish collar. I removed the buttons of the cardigan and replaced with pearl-look buttons. I borrowed an original pair of white 1950s gloves from my mother-in-law. The stockings I wore were original 1950s, they tended to lose their shape as there was no lycra in them. I wore a 1950s style girdle brought from the London based vintage shapewear specialists What Katie Did. The handbag is an original on loan from my dear friend Carolyn Hair.
L-R: Michael Patterson, Claire and Peter Mitchell with their collection of RMS Olympic interior fittings.
South Western Hotel. Designed by John Norton in the French Renaissance style.
Village Garage, 1930s. Breamore Countryside Museum.
Restored 19th Century Shepherd’s Hut in the grounds of Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, Hampshire.
1890, Doulton’s white Carraraware tiles designed for Oakley & Watling Provisions and Fruit Merchants, 56 High Street, Southampton.
The Flagstaff Museum of Tea Ware, Hong Kong Park, Hong Kong.
The Southern Skirmish Association, Bath 2011.
Southern Skirmish Association (So.Sk.An) – Skirmish at American Museum, Bath 2011
Flower Fairy Cakes Exhibition, The Old Dining Room Mottisfont made by the Mottisfont House Team
View of Loch Dunvegan from Colbost Folk Museum, Colbost, Isle of Skye.
Tara Howard Proprietress of Langtry Manor Hotel, Bournemouth dressed as Lille Langtry. Image supplied by kind permission of Ms Howard.
‘The Indifferent Sky’ (2011) by Sean Henry. Displayed in the Cathedral Cloisters. Bronze, cor-ten steel, all weather paint. 237cm x 120cm x 149cm.
Homage in papier mache to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Bisterne Scarecrow Festival 2011.
Chawton House, country house of Edward Austen Knight, Chawton, Hampshire. ©Come Step Back In Time
View of the dining-room at The Red House, from the peephole Albert had installed.
World War II air-raid shelter display, Tudor House and Garden, Southampton, Hampshire
A Tudor gentlement enjoying the delights of the restored knot garden.
Hungerford Household Tudor Re-enactment Group
Tudor food historian Emma Shelley, preparing to make butter
Model of Giant Angus MacAskill
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
Weights and Measures, Lloyds Chemist Exhibit, Swanage Museum
US Medical Company (Union Regiment), Southern Skirmish Association (SOSKAN).
Sharon Holloway with model, Miss Scarlett Luxe at Goodwood Revival 2015. ©Scott Chalmers
Glamourous vintage pin-up model, Miss Scarlett Luxe with the co-owner of Vintage Hair Lounge, Gloria Holloway. ©Come Step Back In Time
Such generous goodie bags provided for us by Penguin Books UK (@PenguinUkBooks). Image copyright – Come Step Back In Time.
These beauties were provided by flower subscription service, Bloom & Wild (https://www.bloomandwild.com/ – @bloomandwild). This photograph won me a three month subscription to Bloom & Wild and I gave the prize to my lovely mum. Image copyright – Come Step Back In Time.
100 year old stereoscopic viewer which allows the user to see two separate images as one single three-dimensional picture. ©Come Step Back In Time
Victorian farmhouse kitchen. ©Come Step Back in Time

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6 thoughts on “End Of An Era …..”

    1. Aww, thank-you Kevin;) I like that very much. I had to focus my research interests. There will be lots of retro food and plenty of weird and wonderful tales from Britain in the 20th Century. Plus new writing adventures outside the blog. More to come on that in due course. Thanks for all your, continued support. Means a lot. Let’s hope 2017 is the year we do a collab:) Emxx

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  2. Very sad to hear that ‘Come step back in time’ is ending.I have really enjoyed reading your blog.But,I am so glad you are going to continue with 20th Century Crush.I look forward to reading that!

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    1. Thanks so much for all of your support and comments. I does mean a lot to get feedback, honestly it does. There will be lots of interesting content over on the new blog. Social history and local stories will all feature on there but it smaller, bitesize chunks rather than long reads. But Come Step Back In Time will remain live for the foreseeable future. Best wishes Emxx

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