Saturday, 22 August 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 39 ............. the mystery of the moving street

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Now this entrance looks as if it should go somewhere and back in 1851 it did. What should be Back Spear Street, 2016 This is Back Spe...

Walking Well Hall ......... past the station and then the climb up to the High Street

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Now anyone who walked up to the High Street from anywhere along Well Hall Road may well have wondered about these houses. I was always ...

From green fields to gas works, the Reverend William Birley’s change of parish in 1859

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In 1859 the Reverend William Birley had left Chorlton where he had been for seventeen years exchanging the small rural living for one in...
Friday, 21 August 2026

Poverty…. gas masks ….. going to the flicks …. and a night in Chorlton ….. stories from Madeline Alberta Linford

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Madeline Alberta Linford was by any measure a remarkable woman. Madeline Alberta Linford, 1921 At just 22 in 1917 she was writing for the Ma...

Touching our history 18th century silver from the old parish church

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It is for me one of the most exciting things about crawling around in the past and it is when you get to touch something you have writ...

At the opening of the Well Hall Odeon, May 20th 1936

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Now it would be a full 28 years after the Well Odeon was open that I first saw a film there. And of course I have no idea what the film...
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Thursday, 20 August 2026

Lost stories from Chorlton’s graveyard ………

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  I am looking at a picture of our own parish graveyard sometime in the late 1970s and it records a scene which has long gone. When the grav...