General Articles

Various articles written by others about family-related topics, and some articles written by me.

Françoise Taylor - an article about my mother (née Françoise Wauters), who died in Bolton, England, on January 24th, 2007, aged 87.

W.T.Taylor & Co. Ltd - an article written by my grandmother Mrs John Taylor (Emmie) in 1974 when she was aged 78, describing the history and development of the family business.

The Wauters family - an article recorded by Kenneth and Françoise Taylor (my parents) in 1986-1990. Includes a 2005 update by Drake Wauters, son of Andre Wauters.

Libertus Fromundus - an article about one of my distant ancestors who reasoned that, if the earth did indeed rotate as alleged by Galileo, "the wind would constantly blow from the east".

Germaine and Basil - an article about the brief wartime marriage between my Belgian great aunt Germaine and Basil Brooks (with thanks to Phil and Richard Moore). Basil was tragically killed on the Somme in July 1916.

The Australian gold rush - a general description of the world's richest gold rush which took place in Australia from 1851 up to around 1900.

A layperson's guide to starting a new website - an article written for people who are thinking of starting a website, aren't sure what's involved, and want a simple one-page guide to some of the basics.

Kenneth Taylor's war diary - a personal daily record of his experiences from the D-Day Normandy landings in June 1944 up to his return to England from Holland in December 1944.

Honest Bill's Mill - an article from 'Lancashire Life', June 1976 written by Barbara J. Balshaw about W.T.Taylor and the towel manufacturing business he successfully founded in Horwich, Bolton (UK) in 1904.

A speech by Alfred Holt - to the shareholders of W.T.Taylor & Co. Ltd on the 19th January, 1926, acknowledging the contribution to the company by its founder, W.T.Taylor, who died earlier that year.

The Backbone of Industry - an article from the Horwich & Westhoughton Journal & Guardian on Friday, September 24, 1954.

A game invention - an article about a game I invented in 1988 called "Plots", with a system based around the well-known Prisoners' Dilemma, also inspired by 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins.

Character encoding - a brief roundup of character encoding and some of the related issues that influence the construction of accessible web pages.

ModRewrite and .htaccess - a simple step by step guide on how to help prevent Google and other search engines from downgrading web pages because of duplicate content.

Childhood at Bourne - in 1974 when my grandmother Emmie Taylor (née Parker) was 78 she wrote about her 1905-1908 memories of childhood in Bourne, Lincolnshire.

Bolton web designer - that's me. I live in Bolton (Horwich actually) and I design websites, so that makes me not only a 'Bolton Web Designer' but a 'Horwich Web Designer' too.