Sunday, 1 February 2026

Recreating the lost Well Hall House with Edith Nesbit

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Well Hall House from Well Hall Road, 1909 Well Hall House has passed out of living memory. It was built in 1733, was home to some Elt...
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Wilbraham Road just 30 years ago

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Now just occasionally I like to revisit an old photograph I have used before. This one comes courtesy of Tom McGrath and is from a seri...
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The Knitting years .... number 1 balaclavas and other hats

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Now I bet not everyone will claim that a collection of knitting patterns is a bit of a history book. But if you have enough of the...
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Adventures in Middle England ……… from Leicestershire into the Cotswolds … No. 4 ..... fields … the empty road …. and no one to talk to

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 I had forgotten just how quiet and empty bits of Britain can be It’s an obvious observation but when you live in a city which is at the hea...

Deansgate remembered ................ stories from the Fox Inn on Byrom Street nu 1 .... a beginning

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For many Deansgate is just a road which takes you from Knott Mill down to St Mary’s Gate. The Fox Inn, Byrom Street, circa 1914 If yo...
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Saturday, 31 January 2026

On a warm sunny afternoon on Barlow Moor Road, sometime before 1939

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I like the way that old postcards can reveal our past in many different ways. It’s every much as good as a detective story. You sta...

A postcard with a difference, the Cathedral from 1902

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I like this postcard of the Cathedral. It combines a picture of the building along with the coat of arms of the city and an equally att...