Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Robin .... A Christmas Annual from the Hulton Press, in 1953

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This is another of those comic annuals which were published by Hulton Press. Robin was aimed at very young children and while I reme...

Shopping for Christmas ..... with T.C. Whitaker on Beech Road

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It is the shop of Thomas Charles Whittaker at the bottom of Beech Road where it curves round into the Green. And for me the attraction...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 45 or so years ago ..... walking the Rochdale in 1979

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A short series bringing together for the fist time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Basin...
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An unfamiliar view of Court Yard around 1900

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Now I have written about Court Yard several times and in particular about Annie Morris who lived there at the turn of the last century. ...

The art of Christmas ………. part two

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The second in the series featuring festive menus from Blackpool hotels covering the period from the late 1940s through to 1969. They come fr...
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Monday, 22 December 2025

The art of Christmas ………. part one

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I am back with how hotels have celebrated Christmas in the past. And so with that in mind I thought I would visit a series of festive menus ...

Cleaning the brass and making the beds in Chorlton ........ with Miss Edith Ashworth

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 I wonder what Edith Ashworth made of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. She had been born in Northenden in 1880, and lived with her father and mother and ...