Since the 13th century, Valence House has been home to many families. There are some we know litt...

Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666), was a diplomat, poet and linguist. As Ambassador to Spain and P...

'You seem to think dearest Mother that I am an evergreen. I am getting on, completed 30 years' se...

In 1928, Frank Beale, was born in Fulham but at just 9 months old his parents brought him to live...

A history of Dagenham written in Edwardian times, when the parish was a rural Essex landscape of ...

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Huddersfield Drill Hall War Memorial 1914 to 1921The Huddersfield Drill Hall War Memorial was des...

Major Thomas Basil Fanshawe of the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's)Regiment was a Field Officer in the...

'Sebastopol appears to be a succession of forts which the Russians are strengthening every day. A...

A Story of Valour and The Sacrifices Made by a Battalion of the Old Contemptibles'. The Complete ...

In 1915 Walter James, a house painter from Shoreditch, enlisted with the 6th Battalion London Reg...

MILNSBRIDGE DRILL HALL WAR MEMORIAL 1914-1921The Milnsbridge Drill Hall War Memorial was designed...

This is a reprint of The Schools of Barking book which was originally produced as 'a brief survey...

Parsloes to Pompeii Wedding Tour 1844

HUDDERSFIELD DRILL HALL WAR MEMORIALS BOER WAR 1900-1902 & SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945The Boer War...

In 2021 Valence House commissioned Dr Nick Holder and Anna Mason to produce a historical narrativ...

From 1805 until her death in April 1824, Althea Fanshawe rarely left her home in Brock Street, Ba...