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...
Thursday, 12 November 2026

Memories of an ancient accident … one canal …. and that steep incline … Stoney Brew

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Nothing quite prepares you for the way Jutland Street just drops away in front of your eyes. Jutland Street before the drop, 2025 It is the ...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 16 ........... a revolution on wash day

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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 this was Dad...

Mrs. Mary Francis Kelsall of Chorlton ……… politician ……. textile worker …… and mother

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I like the way that a story I wrote just a few days ago can come back with a series of twists.* Mary Frances Kelsall, on her 90th birthday, ...