Boo and Beyond.

11/05/2026

Another one to grab your interest and again, one I knew absolutely nothing about !!! Every day’s a school day 😉💖

Know someone with a 10th of May birthday?

This letter was written from Promontory Summit, Utah. The exact spot where America's first transcontinental railroad was completed on May 10th, 1869.
Ella writes home about the golden spike (fashioned from 17.6-karat gold, removed immediately after the ceremony, now in a museum named after the man who missed the ceremonial swing), the two locomotives that met nose-to-nose and never met again, and the twelve thousand Chinese workers whose contribution was largely written out of the official record for the better part of a century.

It is a proper piece of history, printed on A4 and posted to you or directly to your recipient, and it arrives with a date on it that means something.

Letters Home: On This Day. A personalised piece of history.
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09/05/2026

Wow ! What an absolute perfectly beautiful gift to send someone, they even do subscriptions so the history told in such an interestingly magical way just arrives on your door step 😍👩‍🎨📖🙌

https://www.ellasadventures.com/

24/04/2026

….. these beautiful pieces of art, stories of fabulous adventures around the world - places, traditions, events and historical facts that are off the regular routes that your average tourist/visitor would wander upon in blogs and better still, SNAIL MAIL that is delivered directly to your door !!! Go take a look for yourselves, you won’t regret it I promise ;)

( I absolutely love this painting of the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and never knew half of the things Ella talks about 😃😍 )

https://www.ellasadventures.com/

Today Ella is in Lower Manhattan, at the foot of the Woolworth Building on 233 Broadway, on the anniversary of the day it opened in 1913. On the evening of its inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson pushed a button in Washington, D.C., and all of the building's lights flooded on simultaneously. The special guest that night was Thomas Edison, with the newspaper journalists struggling to put into words what they had seen.

The man who built it was F.W. Woolworth, who started his working life behind a shop counter and ended with his name on the Manhattan skyline. When he decided he wanted the tallest building in the world, Goldman Sachs turned him down. He financed the entire thirteen and a half million dollars himself. He sent architect Cass Gilbert to London to study the Houses of Parliament, and told him to bring something of that grandeur back across the Atlantic. A clergyman later called it the Cathedral of Commerce, intending it as a reproach. Woolworth ignored the slight. His own favourite name for the building was simpler: the Tower of Nickels and Dimes.

Today's letter follows Ella through Lower Manhattan and into the building's history and the man behind it.
Please order yours; it will arrive at your door, printed and posted, as a letter should.

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11/04/2026

I know you guys must have some interesting myths, legends, stories from around the globe where you live ….. pop over to Follow Ellas Adventures and have a read up, the stories and information are amazing and from all over the world - a different tale every day ….. ( my current favourite is the welcoming of Spring in Japan 💖 ) the post below can be found there and Tracey, the author and creator of Follow Ella’s Adventures, is asking for your help, share your stories, dates, myths and legends with her, who knows, you may just end up in one of Ella’s future Adventures !

Well, hello there!
Don't mind me, I'm just building a world....

Right here goes.... Hi....
I am writing this as I look out towards the horizon, where the beach meets the Atlantic Ocean which meets the sky, with a cup of coffee going cold beside me and a croissant that is, frankly, doing a better job of holding my attention than it should.

This felt like the right place to finally stop by and introduce myself properly.

If you've stumbled across my daily blog posts and thought, "Who is this person and why do they know so much about obscure history facts?" this is your answer. That person is me. And I'm delighted you're here.

I'm Tracey. My great aunt Ella inspired all of this, and in her honour I am doing two things simultaneously this year: completing a Masters degree, and slowly, somewhat chaotically, constructing an entire world out of words. People, places, history, culture, the whole magnificent mess of it. The blog posts are part of that project, which means that every time you read one, you are technically contributing to my academic career. You should probably put that on your CV.

Now here's where I need you.

I am on the hunt for significant dates, the kind that matter to a town, a street, a grandmother's recipe, a peculiar local tradition involving geese. If there's somewhere you live, love, or have visited that deserves to be written about, I would genuinely like to hear about it.

History doesn't only happen in capital cities. Sometimes it happens in a village hall on a Tuesday.

So don't be shy. Drop it in the comments. Tell me about your town's founding myth, its strangest annual event, and the date the famous person nobody outside the postcode has heard of was born there.

I'll take it from there.

(And yes, I will make it interesting. That part I can promise.)

03/04/2026

Pop and see me at my new destination in Fletchersbridge, there’s the scrumptious Coby’s Coffee Shop, The Hair and Lash shack ( with sun-beds ), Stable Art picture framing and art supplies, Tamar Tails dog grooming and the brand new K9 secure dog walks just opened across the road !!! And all just two minutes away from Cardinham Woods 💖

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09/03/2026

Finally got to open my own shop making dog coats, collars, leads and accessories along with my paper crafting - House of Imaginarium

Pop in if you are around and say hi, I have a giveaway launching at the weekend for the first 3 dog coats ordered at the weekend ……. 💖

Bring your furry friend along too, everyone here at Stable art is SUPER dog friendly and the cafe coffee, cake or lunch is divine !

It would be lovely to catch up with everyone again, it’s been a while and I hope very much that you are all doing amazingly 🥰

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