Thursday, 7 May 2026

Stories from Middle Europe in the 1920s & 30s ........ Joseph Roth ....... on the wireless

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Joseph Roth was a a journalist and author and to my shame someone who I knew nothing about. Joseph Roth, 1926 All of which meant that today...

That lost magical Chorlton playground ... a man called Gabbott .... and the Curnon Steam Meter

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 For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by a patch of land just a little to the north of Chorlton Brook. That assemblage of ol...

It’s how we did it ……… 1962 …… and a heap of adverts

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Anyone who can remember the Colgate advert in the block of ice will know that adverts can date, and is a reminder of how they did things ve...

In Well Hall in the April of 1851

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History is messy and rarely fits with that neat simplistic model we were taught at school.  So take for example that idea that people ...
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Some history …. a bit of fiction …. heaps of music …. and a smash of art …… Chorlton Arts Festival today …. for 14 days*

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It’s our arts festival back for its 24th year and as I do, I whizzed through the programme and chose some of the events that I will be going...
Wednesday, 6 May 2026

The image that defined the North

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And not just the north but of working class communities across the country. This scene is, I think Lower Byrom Street, but I could be w...

In one of the six Alms Houses on Eltham High Street in 1851

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The Alms Houses in 1909 For many of us the Workhouse with its stigma and the horrors that went with being shut up behind its grim walls...
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