Sunday, 15 March 2026

When Mr. Lea drew Chorlton-cum-Hardy …………..

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I have Jon and Hazel to thank for reigniting my interest in our local artist Derrick Lea who I first came across a decade and a bit ago. Sev...

The case of Mrs Crowfoot's plum pudding ......... dark deeds at Well Hall in January 1870

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I don’t often go looking at the Proceedings of the Old Bailey which are now online and cover the period 1674-1913 which is my loss.*  ...

And the band played on .......

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Now I know when the picture was taken and where, but what suddenly attracted the attention of the crowd is lost in time. We are in Cast...
Saturday, 14 March 2026

Derrick Lea …… the Manchester artist comes out of the shadows

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  For nearly two decades I have tried to discover the life story of Mr. Derrick Lea who painted and drew some fine pictures of Manchester, i...

Gasholders I have known and loved ........... no 3 inside the Rochdale Gas works

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Now I am well aware this is a cheat ............. less a gasholder and more the inside of the Rochale Road Gas works. But I have included...

When we still had a furniture shop and a free car park .... down by the Lloyds in 1990

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Now I am on a roll again with pictures from our most recent past. And so here is another of Andy Robertson’s taken I think in the early...
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"Back in your arms again"............ reunions in Belleville in the autumn of 1945

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I am back in Belleville in the autumn of 1945 with the home coming of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. The photographs came in...