Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Merlewood House in the High Street and a hint of how the other half lived in the spring of 1851

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Merlewood House in 1909 We are looking at Merlewood House which was one of those fine old houses Eltham did so well. It stood just ea...

Lost on the streets of my city

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Now one of the advantages of a misspent youth is that I am fairly familiar with the streets of Manchester. From 1969 for three years as...
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Views from a Chorlton window …… sixty years ago

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Yesterday I was looking out on Barlow Moor Road in the summer of 1960 in the company of Ann Love. Now given that Ann lives in France, and I ...
Monday, 4 May 2026

Strikes ….memories ….. and Miss Dannimac ….. more from the Manchester Jewish Museum

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single visit to a museum is never enough and must be followed by a second, third and fourth. ...

523 Barlow Moor Road, captured in a moment in time in 1960

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Now I am back at 523 Barlow Moor Road where my friend Ann Love lived during the 1950s and 60s. It is still there today but has undergon...

Walking out on Oxford Street ............ 1966

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I won’t be alone in remembering these buildings. We are at the top of Oxford Street where it joins St Peter’s Square, and of the four ...
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St Barnabus and its journey from Woolwich

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Now I have passed St Barnabus Church countless times and never knew it was originally sited in Woolwich. It was one of those Eltham chu...