Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Will the real William Frank please step forward ……..

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Now for a decade and more I have been hunting for Mr. William Frank who gave his name to two small streets off Great Marlborough Street in C...

A shop before its time and a family search abandoned

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It was one of those shops which with its quirky concept and interesting objects should have done well on Beech Road. Take an everyday ...
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Back on Pound Place a long time before now

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Pound Place was always somewhere I tended to walk past and looking down it now I can’t even remember what stood on the site of the Counci...
Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Summer days in south Manchester No 3 the Chorlton Peace Festival 1984

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It is an event I have visited before, but it is well worth another outing. * It was at the height of the second Cold War when there w...
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Eltham from the pen of Llwyd Roberts ....... nu 2 St Mary's School 1929

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Now I am a great fan of the work of Mr Llwyd Roberts. He was during the 1920s and 30s our artist in residence and during that time prod...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 34 ............... the one most people forget

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Today Back South Parade is the access and exit route for the big NCP car park and even before the scaffolding went up most people would agr...
Monday, 31 August 2026

One 1951 Festival ….a sliding Doors Moment …. and Mr. Feinstein of New York and New Haven

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I have no recollection of the Festival of Britain. Cover to the Guide Book, 1951 Somewhere beyond the Festival buildings was me, 1951 It was...