Oakhurst wasn’t quite love at first sight. But my wife, ever the optimist, didn’t flinch. “It just needs love,” she said. And, as usual, she was right.

With a pang of sadness I boarded the train at Exeter bound for Hereford, where I will explore my Mattey roots for a few days before...

Prowse ranges are of a significance greater than the thing they are. They were part of the history of the modernization of Canada and opening of the Canadian West in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The building of the transcontinental railway, completed in 1885, allowed these ranges and other domestic goods, even whole house-kits, to be easily shipped to homesteaders to the West.