This enamel sign – possibly an early AA tourist sign – is thought to have been displayed at Temple Meads Train Station to direct arriving passengers to The Clifton Zoo. The black on yellow text reads ...

Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

Sudbury auction house Mander is to hold its first sale since opening a new saleroom in an 11th century church in Norwich. The Grade-I listed St Mary Coslany Church, located in the centre of the city, ...