Software Russian History of Stanwardine Genealogy Malvern College WW1 and WW2
Computer games
Cribbage	Home to Swiveller’s cribbage, a shareware card game where you can play cribbage against the computer. It has an online help suitable for beginners or experts alike and options which allow you to ask the computer for a hint, replay the previous hand, choose your own hand, let the computer determine your score or play Muggins. You can even play Duplicate Cribbage and view the log of previous moves.
Golf	A freeware game where you can hone your maths skills at estimating the correct force and angle to putt the ball around the nine hole golf course and see if you can make or beat the course par.
GPS Software
London Congestion Charge Checker - iPhone, Blackberry	Receive a reminder to pay the congestion charge when you enter the London Congestion zone and easily pay the charge using your iPhone, Blackberry Bold, Android, or other mobile phone with gps enabled.
London Congestion Charge Auto Check and Pay - Pocket PC	Automatically check whether you have entered the London Congestion zone and pay the charge in one easy click on your Pocket PC.
OS Navigator	Determine your current UK OS Grid Reference position and the distance and direction to a destination OS Grid reference using your IPhone or other GPS enabled device.
Russian
Learn Russian at University	Russian at the University of Westminster where group evening classes are provided for all levels
Learn Russian with a tutor	Russian provided by a personal tutor customised to your needs in either a group or private lesson.
The Queen of Spades	You can read Pushkin's masterpiece 'The Queen of Spades' (Pikovaya Dama) in Russian with an English translation alongside.
Word usage	Lets you type in a word, or root of a word, and see how it is used in context by Pushkin in 'The Queen of Spades', or any other text you specify the web address to.
How to type in Russian	Details on how to configure your computer so that you can type in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Russian Translations	Documents or web pages translated from or into Russian. Interpreting can be carried out in the London area.
MOCT	An information resource for Russophiles living in the UK. MOCT has information on Russian language courses, restaurants, films, human rights work, and getting NGO funding.
Bed and Breakfast accommodation  in St Petersburg, Russia	If you are looking for somewhere affordable and comfortable to stay in St Petersburg then why not consider Bed and Breakfast accommodation.
Russian Frequency Word Test	Test yourself and learn the most common Russian words. You can choose to concentrate on words with a frequency ranking of less than 1000, less than 2000 or up to 6000, and within those words opt to just show nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs. You can then see the word's morphology (how it declines/conjugates) and the word in context in a newspaper article, and compare how you are doing with other people in the User Ranking table. If you know the most common 6000 words then you should be able to recognise over 90% of the words in any general text.
Russian Newspaper article reader	If you are frustrated and demoralised by the time it takes to look up the (many) words in a dictionary you don't know then this site is designed to help you as you can copy and paste the text of the article you are interested in and then click on any word to see its meaning.
Photography& Music
Chelsea Flower Show Photos	Chelsea Flower Show Photographs by Roman Rodriguez-Alarcon, age 7.
Liza	Liza’s home page and trumpet music
Graveyard survey
Graveyard survey of Weston Lullingfields church	Graveyard survey of Weston Lullingfields church including a name index, and a transcription and photograph of every gravestone.
Malvern College WW1 and WW2
Malvern College First World War and Second World War Casualties	List and biographies of the 459 people who attended Malvern College and became casualties in the First World War, and of the 248 in the Second World War. They can be searched by house, regiment, rank, date and cemetery.
History
History of Stanwardine in the Wood	A history and description of Stanwardine Hall built in 1580, and the nearby moated site which dates back to the 12th century. They are set in the rural countryside of Shropshire in England.
Genealogy
Bridge descendants of William The Conqueror	A list showing the descendants of William the Conqueror including Robert the Bruce, the Earl of Glencairn and William Bridge!
The Bridge - Corbet connection	Robert Corbet, the builder of Stanwardine Hall, and William Bridge are 17th cousins 15 times removed! Fi and Gruffudd Kynaston who lived on the moat in the 1400s are 3rd cousins 15 times removed. A chart showing Stanwardine owners and occupiers from the 12th to the 21st century.
Bridge Family Tree	The Bridge Family tree (originally hosted by RootsWeb but now on my own created site) tracing principally the Bridge, Hall, and MacMillan lines. Notable names are William The Conqueror, Henry I, Robert the Bruce, Robert II (King of Scotland), The Earl of Glencairn, Annie Laurie, and Henry Platt. There are the First World War records of Rev Henry Cecil Franks MC, William Taylor Jones, Lieutenant John Rookhurst Platt who was at Eton and Oxford and killed near Ypres in 1916, and his cousins Captain Lionel Sydney Platt who was in the Royal Flying Corps, Captain Henry Evelyn Arthur Platt who was in the 19th Hussars before transferring to the Coldstream Guards, Captain Edmond Wellesley who was also killed near Ypres in 1916 less than a month after his marriage, 2nd Lieutenant Charles Douglas Reid who was killed in the battle of the Somme at High Wood, Lieutenant Robert Ainslie Hamilton who was killed at Rossignol Wood, the Somme, during the German Spring offensive of 1918, and Captain Miles Radcliffe shot at Kemmel on 12 Dec 1914. Please also see summary of relatives who served in the war. There is a biography of 2nd Lieutenant Cecil Sherman Platt who died in the Boer War, and of Captain Benjamin Hall who was awarded a silver cup for attempting to repulse the French at the battle of Carrickfergus in 1760 whilst heavily outnumbered. There is also a funeral tribute, life in pictures, and letters to his mother whilst at school and in the Navy of David James Bridge. In the Tudor period, on Fi's side, notable people include Edward Neville who was beheaded at the Tower of London in 1538 for supporting his cousin Cardinal Reginald Pole (later to become Archbishop of Canterbury under Mary) who condemned Henry VIII for wanting a divorce and sought exile in France. Edward Neville's great,great,great grandfather was Edward III, and Edward Neville's granddaugher was Martha Throckmorton whose cousin, Elizabeth Throckmorton, was the wife of Sir Walter Raleigh. Martha's nephew was Robert Catesby, one of the main leaders in the Gun Powder Plot and her father was the MP Clement Throckmorton whose cousin was Catherine Parr, the 6th wife of Henry VIII.
The Melyniog Archive	Catalogue of letters and other items mainly relating to the Greaves, Hall and Platt families in the 19th century. Notable items include the courtship letters between Hannah Greaves and William Hall in 1824 and the account in the Oldham Chronicle of the shooting accident of James Platt MP on Saddleworth Moor in 1857, the Roman and Greek Coin Catalogues of Henry Platt Hall, and the sporting biography of Major James Edward Platt. It also includes many items relating to the textile machine company Platt Bros in Oldham, which was the largest firm in the world in the second half of the 19th century, such as the book Platts by R H Eastman, a Souvenir for the visit of King George V to Platt Bros in 1913, and the 1966 Queens Award to Platt Bros
Wikitree Join me @ WikiTree	Below is my connection to A J Jacobs (who is trying to determine all his cousins) courtesy of Wikitree. As can be seen we are connected through the Romanovs and the Queen Mother!
Geni.com	Connections to notable people such as Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Winston Churchill, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Duke of Welligton, Horatio Nelson, Edward III, Llewelyn, Marcus Aurelius, Tutankhamun, and Confucius courtesy of Geni.com which has over 100 million people in their family tree.
Evolutionary tree	Going back a bit further in time courtesy of OneZoom's zoomable evolutionary tree:

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