By invite, from Sam and Graham Johnson, I will introduce myself to you, as a collector of almost any item connected to 'matches'. I am a...

A hundred years on, we celebrate the heroism of Donalda Charron who in 1924 led the matchgirls (les allumettières) strike at the E. B....

THE FOUNTAIN - THE LOCATION – THE CEREMONY - THE PEOPLE THE FOUNTAIN The idea of a Drinking Fountain most likely arose from Bryant and...

Wow, what a day 5th July was in Bow, London – both in 1888 and in 2022! In my capacity as Chair of The Matchgirls Memorial and Great...