Thursday, 5 November 2026

When you make cheap comments about James Fraser ….

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So earlier today I was a tad unfair to James Fraser, former Bishop of Manchester. James Fraser, former Bishop of Manchester, 2026 His statue...

36 barrels of gunpowder ..... that horrendous act .... and a noisy night of fireworks

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Now there is a pernicious and pervasive way of thinking which looks for conspiracy everywhere. Mutterings and secret plans, 1604 As a way of...

So ……… who pinched the tennis courts by the Lloyd’s Hotel?

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Now , everyone knows that the Lloyds has a bowling green, which will date from soon after the hotel was built in the late 1860s. The Lloyds,...
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The one on the corner of Concert Lane and Spring Gardens …..

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I must have passed this building countless times since I washed up in the city in 1969. Where Spring Gardens meets Concert Lane, 2026 Back i...

In the kitchen ……………. in 1959

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Now I had all but forgotten this metal food processor. Long before the swish big electric models, most homes had one of these. Ours w...
Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 19 ........... Back College Land and the vanished Press House Steps

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Back College Land, 2016 Now Back College Land looks like it should have some dark and unseemly past with more than a few dreadful tale...
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The London of 1949

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The Pool of London in 1909 This is the Pool of London in 1909. Fifty years later given a few changes and a bit of bomb damage and it ...
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