Thursday, 3 September 2026

Who moved that bus stop? …………. and other challenges to my memory ….Didsbury …. 1967

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It started with a conversation with my friend Barbarella about the lost shops of Didsbury, and in particular, the stretch from M&S to t...
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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...