Friday, 17 July 2026

Five pictures …… one road …… and a heap of Chorlton’s story

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This is Brook Lane in 1909 on the cusp of a change. 1909 For centuries it had led out of the village past the old Bowling Green Hotel, cross...
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Rescuing five Manchester Radicals ……………"from the enormous condescension of posterity”

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How easy it is to lose our history, and once lost how much more difficult to retrieve. Alexander Somerville, 1848 This I know is not ...

A little bit of our history down at the Co-op

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2d token issued by the R.A.C.S., date unknown It’s so easy to lose so much of our history. Now the big things like the homes of the g...

Help us restore a bit of Chorlton’s lost story …...

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Many of you will be familiar with the large “History Wall” which for over a year fronted the building site on what had been Chorlton Swimmin...
Thursday, 16 July 2026

Walking along the High Street in 1908, calling in for a pint and a packet of sweets

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Walking down the south side of the High Street in 1909 So this is a walk down the southern side of the High Street in 1908 or 1909. N...

Henry Hunt ………. “and the Manchester Monument to Perpetuate His Memory”

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I am back with Henry “Orator” Hunt who the Chartist newspaper described as the “one of the most bold, most strenuous , most disinterested a...

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 11 ....... the Lych Gate and Jubilee 1887

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 A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a paragraph and  a challenge for people to suggest some that a...