Friday, 19 December 2025

Down by the Oven Door on Beech Road in 1976

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I could have cleaned the picture up, played with the settings and achieved a clearer image but that would have been to lose something of ...

A Christmas sometime between 1955 and 61

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I don’t usually do nostalgia, but this week is an exception. So for all those who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s here is a selection of...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester .......... nu 8 back with a favourite

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The day back in November was grey and cold and the clouds seemed to touch the ground. So I cheered myself up with another picture of ...

The stocking filler …. 1924

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So …. I couldn’t resist this one. I have no date for the 12 picture postcards that made up the series, but given that one of them was for th...
Thursday, 18 December 2025

Of artificial Christmas trees and memories of Well Hall in December

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I don’t have a picture of our old Christmas tree. It was bought in the late 1950s and served us well both in Lausanne Road and then at ...

A familiar scene of Chorlton Green .............. with a few twists

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Now at first glance, this appears a run of the mill picture of Chorlton Green with the lych gate, parish church yard and the pub in the dis...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester .......... nu 7 walking over the river

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Now this one sprang up when I wasn't looking. And just because it is silly I shall aim to walk over each of the Salford br...
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