Tuesday, 23 June 2026

Discovering Turn Moss Road …… that one with a little history

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Turn Moss Road is the one that runs off Edge Lane and down onto Turn Moss. Turn Moss Road, 2023 It’s a road that you could easily miss or ju...
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Looking at Eagle House in Eltham High Street sometime in 1874

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Eagle House, 1909 Eltham has got to be lucky that so many of its fine houses built in the 18th and early 19th centuries have survived. ...

A farm on the green

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No matter how many times I look at this picture it always has the power to draw me back in. The date is uncertain but my old friend To...
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Ancient Lives with Mary Beard ..... Being Greek

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Now, this is one I will listening to. It's Ancient Lives with  Mary Beard, Being Greek .* I am a great fan of Mary Beard, have her books...

Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ........... nu 55 standing on Greengate with the help of Mr Goad

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Now yesterday we were on Greengate in the winter of 1949 and today we have moved forward almost a full half century. Of course by now t...
Monday, 22 June 2026

Two pictures….. one canal …. and 47 years …. walking the Rochdale Canal

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It was sometime back in 1979 when armed with just a couple of cameras and heaps of curiosity I wandered down the Rochdale Canal from Princes...

Walking into Stretford along Edge Lane in 1847

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Now if I wanted to walk to Stretford from the village in the late spring of 1847 I would have used the old road . It started at Hardy L...
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