Thursday, 8 October 2026

Beech Road in the summer of 1932

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We are on Beech Road in the summer of 1932.   Judging by the shadows and the activity it must be sometime in the morning. The...

Megalosaurus … the dinosaur with a story … today on the wireless

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Who doesn’t like dinosaurs? Or perhaps less like and more fascinated. All of which is a lead into this week’s In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 whi...

Travels with a box of toffees to the Tower of London and beyond

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The quality of the images is a bit iffy, but they perfectly recreate the London I knew when I was growing up. London Bridge , 1956 Th...

Stories of demolition part 1 ……. Manchester 1971

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Sometimes you come across a picture which is not just a record of an event, but offers up so much more. So here we are with an unnamed build...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Searching the picture ….. London Road 1895

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This is a photograph of London Road where it joins Store Street and we are in 1895. London Road, 1895 There is nothing very remarkable about...

Mrs Crump of Chorlton-cum-Hardy and a piece of broadcasting history

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Now this is another of those stories which has much more to offer. Back on January 1 1947 Mrs Elsie May Crump appeared on Woman’s Hour ...
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Outside Beech Road Police Station ........ revealing a little of the life of PC Frederick George Ross

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This is Police Constable Frederick George Ross standing with his colleagues outside the police station on Beech Road. Now I can’t be ...
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