Saturday, 7 February 2026

A park bench, a Radio Station and a reggae singer ............. Piccadilly Gardens sometime in the 1970s

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Now as soon as you post a picture of Piccadilly Gardens you can be confident there will be a deluge of comments. Most favour the old la...
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Friday, 6 February 2026

Faces with stories ………..

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I am looking at the face of a young woman, and what makes the image very remarkable is that it sat at the bottom of the sea for nearly 160 y...

Passing the bridges ………

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It will have been in 1979, and I guess it was sometime in the summer and on a whim, I took a trip on the River. Now if you were born and gre...

A painting of the meadows, a mystery ……….. and stories yet to be told

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This is Hawthorn Lane, which is part of the Old Road, which snaked through Chorlton from Hardy Lane, skirting the parish church before head...
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The Knitting years .... number 4 getting personal

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The new series on the history of what we wore, Knitting Patterns. Now if this isn't the pattern our Jillian used to knit that jum...
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Chicken bryani in the Plaza on Upper Brook Street on Saturdays in the 70s

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For those who were born around the mid 20th century who queued to see the film Spartacus, remembered with profound sadness the death of O...
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One more lost scene of Chorlton ......... from the winter of 1963-4

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  In memory of Ida Bradshaw who died on New Year's Eve and whose funeral service too place on Wednesday in St Clements,  here is the fir...