Friday, 2 October 2026

Home Thoughts of Woolwich ....... no. 1 ….. the badge

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Sometimes it is as simple as a badge, which after 40 years brings back a bit of history. Having left Well Hall in 1969 for Manchester, I onl...

The Bella Napoli on Kennedy Street ............ where we learned to love pizza

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Now I won’t be alone in having fond memories of the Bella Napoli on Kennedy Street. Neapolitan pizza, 2017 It opened in 1973 just thr...
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Of floods and tourist attractions on the edge of Chorlton

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Today I am on the Mersey at the edge of the township.  It is 1910 and judging by the trees we are somewhere in the summer or early autum...
Thursday, 1 October 2026

Casablanca .... that film ... on the wireless today

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It's the film pretty much everyone says they like. And why not? Set against the backdrop of the struggle against the Nazi regime, it has...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 47 or so years ago …… walking the Rochdale in 1979

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A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Bas...
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The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no.3 the Pie Shop

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A short series on the pictures of Eltham and Woolwich in 1979. For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the ...
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Chorlton in 1798

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I am back with a little bit of Chorlton from 1798 looking again at some online records from A ncestry. This one is the Land Tax Redempt...