This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.*
Now there is nothing over remarkable about these two pictures of our garden in Well Hall sometime in the 1970s.
The quality is a bit iffy but then they are over 47 years old and were taken with one of those old clunky instamatic cameras, which processed the film straight away and turned out the image in minutes.
The film was expensive and from memory you only got eight or so shots, but there was something magical about the instant nature of the process.
Today the mobile phone or the digital camera will do it equally fast with the added advantage that it can be sent on to family and friends across the planet.
But in 1970 this was pretty neat, and how better to use it than a snap of our back garden.
I doubt any of us will remember who took them but they show the garden just as I remember it. My sisters, and in particular our Stella laid out the garden and Dad was on hand to do the actual work.
And like all back gardens, there in the corner was the shed, full of all sorts of treasures and a real necessity given we didn’t have a cellar.
Dad put it up around 1964 and a full thirty years later it still had that powerful smell of creosote.
Looking at out garden and across to our neighbours there is nothing remarkable about any of them, but that actually makes the fascinating and in their own way a real history lesson.
Here is how we decided to lay out our small gardens back in 1970.
They may not be much different from the same gardens today or those of the 1950s, but they do offer up a picture of life in 1970, added to which they are our garden, which is enough for me.
Location; Well Hall
Pictures; the back garden of our house on Well Hall Road, circa 1970, from the Simpson collection
*One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road,
https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/One%20hundred%20years%20of%20one%20house%20in%20Well%20Hall
The quality is a bit iffy but then they are over 47 years old and were taken with one of those old clunky instamatic cameras, which processed the film straight away and turned out the image in minutes.
The film was expensive and from memory you only got eight or so shots, but there was something magical about the instant nature of the process.
Today the mobile phone or the digital camera will do it equally fast with the added advantage that it can be sent on to family and friends across the planet.
But in 1970 this was pretty neat, and how better to use it than a snap of our back garden.
I doubt any of us will remember who took them but they show the garden just as I remember it. My sisters, and in particular our Stella laid out the garden and Dad was on hand to do the actual work.
Dad put it up around 1964 and a full thirty years later it still had that powerful smell of creosote.
Looking at out garden and across to our neighbours there is nothing remarkable about any of them, but that actually makes the fascinating and in their own way a real history lesson.
Here is how we decided to lay out our small gardens back in 1970.
They may not be much different from the same gardens today or those of the 1950s, but they do offer up a picture of life in 1970, added to which they are our garden, which is enough for me.
Location; Well Hall
Pictures; the back garden of our house on Well Hall Road, circa 1970, from the Simpson collection
*One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road,
https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/One%20hundred%20years%20of%20one%20house%20in%20Well%20Hall
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