Monday, 19 January 2026

A classic story of a rural world we have lost ….. Akenfield

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Today I am going to revisit Akenfield by Ronald Blythe a favourite book which I first came across in the mid-1970s. By then it had been on t...

Lost and forgotten breweries of Manchester ......... nu 1 what a lot

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It began as a discussion with Paul over the identity of this brewery on the corner of Ledger Street which was behind Miller Street.  Le...
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A lost Eltham Palace ........... nu 3 Eltham Palace from the north west

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Now I have decided to run a few pictures of what Eltham Palace looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had long been abandoned a...

Cycling to a beauty contest …….. “the pretty entrants” of 1937

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I bet there will be someone who remembers Riding’s Stores Ltd. They sold cycles and advertised themselves as “The largest Quality Cycle Spec...
Sunday, 18 January 2026

Lost stories in a forgotten street ……. the one behind Deansgate

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Now it is easy to shudder and feel outrage at the accounts of housing conditions in the poor parts of Manchester in the first half of the 19...
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A little bit of history in the back garden ……. “Scrubbs Cloudy Ammonia”

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Two bottles ..... with Scrubbs to the left, 2023 It is a given that if you have a garden at some point something will turn up, and if you ar...

A lost Eltham Palace nu 2 .............. The Banqueting Hall in 1782

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Now I have decided to run a few pictures of what Eltham Palace looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had long been abandoned a...