Wednesday, 3 June 2026

On the turn of a sixpence, the continuing story of Manley Hall and Sam Mendel

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The Hall in 1879 Yesterday I was pondering a visit to Manley Hall in the June of 1879.* This had been the grand home of Samuel Mend...
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Scholes Square ….. fifty-one of its residents …. and a bit of Manchester’s past

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  You won’t find Scholes Square today. Scholes Square, 1908 I only came across it by accident when looking for pictures of London Road on Ma...

The not so different bits of where we live, part 2 ............. Greenwich

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Now I am always intrigued at those more recent photographs of where we live. So while pictures from the late 19th and early 20th centur...

A Chorlton ghost sign ……

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Not all ghost signs have to be very old. They are the remnants of businesses and products which long ago vanished, but whose faded signs sti...
Tuesday, 2 June 2026

One camera ….. 1965 ….. and a collection of lost scenes

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It is 61 years ago that this collection of images was taken. "Clearance in Hulme" , 1965 They cover Manchester, Stretford and ou...

"the frown of fortune"...... the story of Sam Mendel and Manley Hall in Whalley Range

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Now I don’t usually do stately homes, but back in 1879 I might just have made the effort to visit Manley Hall which had once been the...
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One Acre Allotment and more stories of rural Eltham

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One Acre Allotments, 1908 Even in the most built up urban areas there are clues to our rural past. Here in Chorlton there is still th...