Sunday, 8 November 2026

Buying a book at Wilcox's on Well Hall Road and a thank you

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Well Hall Odeon, circa 1960s It is pretty much one of those things that when you live somewhere you take it for granted. Growing up i...

Looking for Miss Wright of Chorlton in 1928 ............. and hoping for more stories about the Girls’ Friendly Society on St Clements Road

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From the 1928 church Bazaar book I wonder if I will ever find out anything about Miss Wright, President of the Girls’ Friendly Socie...

Snapshots …………. 1841 the class divide measured by horses

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Now, I am never surprised at how easy it is to get sidetracked during a piece of research. And so today, while crawling over back copie...
Saturday, 7 November 2026

Sunday in a Manchester Park

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Now I have always liked this painting, and it perfectly conjures up a Sunday on a warm summer’s day in a Manchester park. Writing in 19...
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Chorlton-cum-Hardy does its bit

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Now, there is always a story behind a picture, and so it is with this one of a tent carrying the name Chorlton-cum-Hardy. The tent, 192...
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A wopping big bit of Eltham’s past ........... and the historian who wrote it

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Now every place deserves a historian and a good history book and Eltham had R.R.C.Gregory who wrote the Story of Royal Eltham in 1909 which...
Friday, 6 November 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 95 Royton Street ...

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  You won’t find Royton Street. Spinningfields, 2020 It vanished long ago under the Spinneyfields development but for a century and more it ...