With Mr Higginbothan on Row Acre in Chorlton in 1892 and 500,000 readers

Well I started the blog in October 2011 and in those three years it has covered a varied set of stories of our past including a growing set of contributions from those with their own stories. 

And today the blog passed the 500,000 point.

Well to be accurate 500,152 people have read one of the stories since that first one on October 21 2011.

So thank you to all that those read the blog, and those who have commented and contributed.

And to celebrate that record here is one of my all time favourite pictures which featured very early in the blog’s history.

We are on the Rec on that strip of land on the corner of Beech Road and Crossland Road with Mr Higginbotham.  The date is around 1892 when the field was still called Row Acre.

Picture; Mr Higginbotham on Row Acre circa 1892 courtesy of the late Mr Higginbotham and in the Lloyd collection