Sunday, 23 August 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester ........ nu 81 Roman Entry

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This is Roman Entry. Roman Entry, 2017 It connects Church Street to what has variously been known as Roman Street and Back Alley and...
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The Great Burial Scandal

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The Great Burial Scandal is a story and I have to thank Ida Bradshaw for picking up on the old references and unearthing the awful truth. ...
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On Eltham High Street in the 1930s

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I am back on the High Street sometime in the 1930s, and this is Joan Wilcox behind the counter of the newsagents run by her parents. ...
Saturday, 22 August 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 39 ............. the mystery of the moving street

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Now this entrance looks as if it should go somewhere and back in 1851 it did. What should be Back Spear Street, 2016 This is Back Spe...

Walking Well Hall ......... past the station and then the climb up to the High Street

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Now anyone who walked up to the High Street from anywhere along Well Hall Road may well have wondered about these houses. I was always ...

From green fields to gas works, the Reverend William Birley’s change of parish in 1859

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In 1859 the Reverend William Birley had left Chorlton where he had been for seventeen years exchanging the small rural living for one in...
Friday, 21 August 2026

Poverty…. gas masks ….. going to the flicks …. and a night in Chorlton ….. stories from Madeline Alberta Linford

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Madeline Alberta Linford was by any measure a remarkable woman. Madeline Alberta Linford, 1921 At just 22 in 1917 she was writing for the Ma...