Saturday, 2 May 2026

The 42 from the Refuge Building …..a furniture shop, Wimpy Bar, and a shed load more …..1967

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Now, with the passage of a full half century, it is the detail you forget. I stood at the bus stops outside the old Refuge Building for...
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Another 20 objects in the story of Chorlton ........ nu 1 the ration announcement

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I am looking at a card sent to the Chorlton branch of the Manchester and Salford Co-op shop on Beech Road in the summer of 1953. Over...

At the vicar's jubilee in Eltham with Peter Wakeman in the field by the vicarage in the September of 1833

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“in many of the homes of Eltham ..... so impressive were the demonstrations that took place [to commemorate his fifty years in office...
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Friday, 1 May 2026

In the Lloyd’s ……. with John and Enriqueta Rylands

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  I am not the only one who has looked forward to the second novel about the lives of Mr. and Mrs Rylands. It is the second in a trilogy whi...

Carts …. horses ….. and another busy day …… the lost Hulme and Moss Side .. part 3

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This is the third dip into a collection which recorded life in Hulme and Moss Side during the house clearances of the 1960s and 70s. They we...
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Hough End Hall still a working farm in the 1950s

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This will be the last of the descriptions of the Hall from Oliver Bailey whose family rented and then owned Hough End and the surrounding l...
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As other saw us …… Mr. Greenwood and his superior map of Eltham, Woolwich and much else

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Now this is one of my favourite maps of where we live. Eltham, 1829-34 It comes from Greenwood’s "Atlas of the Counties of Engla...