Thursday, 20 August 2026

Lost stories from Chorlton’s graveyard ………

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  I am looking at a picture of our own parish graveyard sometime in the late 1970s and it records a scene which has long gone. When the grav...

Stories from my pasta bowl ……

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Once every two decades I have a clear out of the books on the shelves. Of course, there are some I will never part with because they were in...

Visions of the future .... Orangery Lane, Eltham as it might have been

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Now I have always been fascinated by how planners have thought the future might turn out.   So here are two views of Orangery Lane...

Joseph Johnson, radical, farmer and almost a Didsbury Radical

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The Peterloo Massacre still has the power to shock and ranks alongside the Sharpville Massacre in South Africa in 1960 and the Kent State...
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Wednesday, 19 August 2026

The grim side to some of our Manchester pubs

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Now I am back with Peterloo and the dastardly actions of the Manchester Yeomanry who on August 16th, 1819, charged a peaceful crowd in St P...
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Snaps of Chorlton nu 16 .............. on Beech Road with Mrs England just 52 years ago

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Now I can’t be exactly sure of when Mrs England posed on Beech Road for this photograph but it will be sometime before 1974. And it is ...
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Of town plans and visions of a future that never quite happened, Eltham in the 1970s and Manchester in 1945.

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Cover of A Future for Eltham Town Centre, 1975 Nothing dates as much as those planning booklets issued by the Council as part of a bra...