...attached to documents, dated July 1874, in the Church archives, were pieces of cloth stated to have been cut from the covering of the Turin ...

In 1816 Alexander Raphael commissioned a sarcophagus for himself in the church of the Armenian Monastery....

Noel Baddow Pope was born in Toxteth, a sub-district of Liverpool, on Christmas Eve, 1909. He moved with his widowed mother to Surbiton before 1926.

The first mission in Kingston upon Thames, mentioned in the Catholic Directory, was St. Raphael’s Church, in Surbiton.

Local historian Tim Everson’s collation of old and new photographs with informative captions...

Alexander Raphael was born in Madras, modern-day Chennai, India, in 1775...

...a grand mansion built in 1828...

...today’s Eden Street was once called “Heathen Street”...

...the House of Detention in Kingston upon Thames, 1852-1890...

...whether the tradition arose because Biden, in 1852, used unreliable hearsay as his source?

This is the first detailed study of a prison in Heathen Street [modern-day Eden Street] Kingston upon Thames...

Reviews on four books covering Kingston, its suburbs and societies...