Tuesday, 28 July 2026

Red Gates Farm, .......... and one of the lost farm houses

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I know more about the farms here in the township during the first 60 years of the 19th century than I do about them in the second half of t...

Walking along Court Yard in the June of 1841, looking for John Martin and Hannah Simmons

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Court Yard, 1858-73 “If you take up a position upon the spot where what we now call the Court-yard meets the High Street, you will be s...

Snaps of Manchester number 5 ... in Albert Square with trams and horses

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Of all of the snaps of Manchester I have featured this is one of my favourites. We are in Albert Square sometime between the late 1920s...
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Monday, 27 July 2026

More on Didsbury’s past ….. The Dawn of Didsbury Jewry 1861-1926

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Now I have been waiting for The Dawn of Didsbury Jewry 1861-1926 to arrive in the bookshop. I was alerted to Julia Maine’s contribution to t...

Hardy Farm ............ the picture I have never seen before

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Now there are not that many pictures of Hardy Farm and that is a shame. I included one of the most well known in the book on Chorlton ...
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Sherard House and Church Row in Eltham in 1841 and Richard White census enumerator

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Sherard House from the garden, 1909 This is Sherard House and once again I set out to describe the place and once again I have got side...

"I had forgotten how black the town hall was" .......... pictures from Linda

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The thing about old picture postcards is that there is usually a story which goes with them. Albert Square, circa 1960s Often that st...