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...
Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Trams across Warsaw

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I like trams.   And that affection stretches from the old tall and stately looking Corporation trams which for over half a century trundled ...

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 20, a tram and the railway line that is 132 years old

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Concluding the story of Chorlton in just a paragraph. They are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at random. For m...

Walking the woods above Well Hall in 1977

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Sometimes it is worth remembering just how pleasant it is to live in Eltham. When we first arrived in 1964 I had no idea that just abov...
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Exploring the butchers of Peterloo ………. The 101 men of the Manchester Yeomanry

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The passage of 200 years has not dimmed the horror of the actions of the Manchester Yeomanry on that hot day in the August of 1819. The...
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