University of Manchester Online Map Collection

University of Manchester Online Map Collection

A collection of historical maps of Manchester which you can view online.  This site http://manchester.publicprofiler.org/ is also good and allows you to view old maps overlaid on top of current maps.

Find a soldier’s will

Find a soldier’s will

If you have not seen this site before, it might be useful. It has recently been released and contains a search facility for 230,000 British Empire soldiers who made wills & in some cases wrote ‘last letters’ to their families. Thanks go to Sylvia for pointing this out to me.