Monday, 5 October 2026

Hardy Farm ..... on the edge of the Township

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  This is Hardy Farm at the end of Hardy Lane, and you will have to be of an age to remember it. Hardy Farm, 1965 It has gone now, but it ap...
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Just how exotic could Manchester be? ………. memories of 1971

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Now you have to be of a certain age to remember the Ceylon Tea Centre, or its equally enticing rival the Danish Food Centre. An exotic ...
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Of bandstands, demolished churches and a closed pub, Plumstead Common in 1915

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Now every good park should have a bandstand. They were after all the centre of many parks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whi...
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Sunday, 4 October 2026

When nostalgia is nothing more complicated than a sausage sandwich …….. Bert’s café ...... 1971

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Now, we all have our own cherished memories which seem with the passage of time to encapsulate a chunk of our growing up. Whitworth Str...
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What we did in October when we were still a farming community

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Cows on the meadows, 2003 An occasional series reflecting on what we did in the township when we were still a small rural community. ...

Beresford Square circa 1900

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Beresford Square is one of those places I remember with fondness. And it is a place I keep coming back to, so here is another of the pl...
Saturday, 3 October 2026

Gilgamesh .... Enkidu ... a story over 4,700 years old .... on the wireless today

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The Epic of Gilgamesh caught my imagination decades ago but I was too lazy to read the story for myself, and instead just relied on what I w...