Saturday, 11 July 2026

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 6 .... three concrete stumps 1959

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A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a paragraph and  a challenge for people to suggest some that are...
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Tram car 283 out from Victoria Park ……. with Mr. William Becket

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I don’t have a date for the picture, but it will be sometime after the Great War. The guard standing in front of the tram is Mr. Wil...

Annie Morris, Ram Alley and more stories of Eltham in the 19th century

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Annie and her son William in 1877 I  am back with Annie Morris whose life in Eltham pretty much covered the period when the place shift...
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Friday, 10 July 2026

We are not an aberration …… when you are not alone .... spaghetti, milk and sugar

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Growing up in southeast London in the 1950s we ate a heap of different foods. Pretty much all of them were cooked from scratch at home using...

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 5........ a street fire alarm 1958

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A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a paragraph and  a challenge for people to suggest some that are...

Waiting for the off.......... Manchester Corporation trams lined up in the Princess Road Car shed, 1926

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Sometimes the image says it all. And for anyone who was born after the last of the old trams rumbled their way through our streets and ...

On Court Yard with Annie Morris

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I never tire of looking at this picture which takes me back to an Eltham I never knew. We are standing on Court Road at the beginning o...