Friday, 25 September 2026

Half a century of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre ….. the exhibition

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Yesterday I dropped into the major new exhibition celebrating fifty years of storytelling through costume, craft and performance at the Ro...

When your life comes packaged in just eight pages…….

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 It’s a silly title really but it sprang to mind after seeing Michael Kay’s post featuring the brochure for Manchester Polytechnic . It is d...

The Kickety Brook, Stretford, once a vital part of our flood defences

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I first walked the Kickety Brook with my old botanist friend, David Bishop. It doesn’t look much but it was vital in its day for prot...

The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no.10 the ferry or the tunnel?

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A short series on the pictures of Eltham and Woolwich in 1976. For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the lat...
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Thursday, 24 September 2026

Amberleigh ... 1953-1997 ........ that prep school on Wilbraham Road

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Sometimes you encounter a story which is well beyond your own experiences. The Oaks, Wilbraham Road, 1929 And so today I plunge into that wo...

Osibisa, the old Till & Kenendy Building and a memory

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Now for no particular reason I played Woyaya by Osibisa. Osibisa and Mr. Righton The LP has sat on the shelf with a shed load of othe...
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Travelling on LCC tram number 1622 with memories of the Old Kent Road and Well Hall

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Now I missed travelling on a tram by just a matter of years, but had I been born a little earlier I might well have been on this one that...