Saturday, 19 September 2026

Walking Chorlton's past .... that popular history talk with Andrew Simpson .... tomorrow

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  This Sunday you can walk our past with Andrew Simpson and discover just who you might have to be polite to. Ploughing beside Beech Road, c...

Two pictures …. a memory …… and a lost landscape

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  Memories fade and eventually are lost and so these two images of Manchester on August 1st, 1957, are a powerful reminder of what the city ...

In search of an adventure out of Peckham ............. foot tunnels and a strange find

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Now the thing about adventures is that there should be no rules, no preplanning and just an optimistic expectation that it will all turn ou...
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What were the 3rd Battalion of the Manchester Pals doing at Alex Park in the September of 1914? ........... stories behind the book nu 10

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An occasional series on the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War .* The entrance to Alexandra Park, 1907 Now t...
Friday, 18 September 2026

Your invite to a new way of telling the stories of Greater Manchester …. today

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 So, today at Chorlton Library  you have the opportunity to roam over the history of Greater Manchester in a new and unique way. Peter Top...

Bell Water Gate, 1977 a little bit of that lost Woolwich

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Bell Water Gate, 1977 Its official I have joined that legion of grumpy old people who lament the passing of the places I knew as a youn...
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Walking a bit of our city’s history ……the Rates Hall

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For countless thousands of Mancunians over the decades, the Rates Hall, in the Town Hall Extension was just where you went to pay your Coun...