Saturday, 14 November 2026

Waiting for the coal man

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Enoch Royle the coal man circa 1930 There is something very reassuring about hearing the fire and the kitchen range being racked out in...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 19 ........... the unremarkable

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* Now there is noth...
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Working a Salford Corporation Tram in 1917 ............ Salford women in uniform

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I like the way that stories have a habit of reappearing and so it is with Miss Rebecca Chapman of Hodson Street who in 1918 began work wit...
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Friday, 13 November 2026

That deadly smog …. a Clean Air Act…. and the story today …. on the wireless

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I grew up with smog. It was just the background to living in London in the 1940ss and 50s. Of course, all our cities and towns were prone to...

A golden childhood growing up in Well Hall in the 1960's

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Lost in the woods, 1977 Now Eltham was a pretty good place to grow up in the 1960s especially when you had come from Peckham. It was ...
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Sunlight House “a modern building with the best of old standards maintained"

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Sunlight House, © 2013 Peter Topping Earlier this month I was on Quay Street with Sunlight House which when it was completed in 1932 wa...

“I make no rash promises …. promises never fulfilled and perhaps never meant to be” ……

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Yesterday I wrote about the election campaign of Frank Beverley who stood as the candidate for the Chorlton-cum-Hardy Labour Party in the l...