Saturday, 12 September 2026

Looking out from Cross Lane ....... across the fields of Chorlton-cum-Hardy with Mr Samuel Walton

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In the spring of 1877, Mr Samuel Walton would have had a fine view from his house on Cross Road out on to the fields which stretched down B...
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Looking for a glimpse of the 1970s from Piccadilly Railway Station ...... a SELNEC bus, some vanished buildings and a slice of Black Forest gateau ......... nostalgia doesn’t get any better

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Now if you are of a certain age this will be a pretty familiar scene. It is one I saw countless times as I walked down from the station...
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Well Hall House that fine 18th century pile which went in 1930

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Well Hall House date unknown Now I am fascinated by Well Hall House. It was built in 1733, replacing the Tudor manor house and was de...
Friday, 11 September 2026

Back in Chorlton in the October of 1961

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Pemberton Arcade, Barlow Moor Road “Just a sixpenny bus ride from Piccadilly, Manchester is Chorlton-cum-Hardy – the little green mead...
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Not all the interesting stuff is inside the city’s Art Gallery ….

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I have been a fan of Manchester’s Art Gallery* for nearly sixty years, and I have my own favourite galleries and paintings. And along with t...

Eltham from the pen of Llwyd Roberts ....... nu 4 the Tudor Barn Farm Offices 1930

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Now I am a great fan of the work of Mr Llwyd Roberts. He was during the 1930s our artist in residence and during that time produced a h...

It’s how we did it in 1970

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To be fair shops like these were doing the business for decades before this picture was taken in 1970. But within a decade and bit, independ...
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