Friday, 18 September 2026

Your invite to a new way of telling the stories of Greater Manchester …. today

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 So, today at Chorlton Library  you have the opportunity to roam over the history of Greater Manchester in a new and unique way. Peter Top...

Bell Water Gate, 1977 a little bit of that lost Woolwich

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Bell Water Gate, 1977 Its official I have joined that legion of grumpy old people who lament the passing of the places I knew as a youn...
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Walking a bit of our city’s history ……the Rates Hall

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For countless thousands of Mancunians over the decades, the Rates Hall, in the Town Hall Extension was just where you went to pay your Coun...

Miss. Mary Jane Weeks ……… domestic servant and shareholder in the Chorlton-cum-Hardy Conservative Club

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Now history is messy and doesn’t always conform to rigid rules of historical development. The Conservative Club and Public Hall, 1908 ...
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Thursday, 17 September 2026

That lost picture of the Royal Oak in 1902 with young Thomas Kelsey

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This is a picture of the old Royal Oak I have never seen before. The caption gives a date of 1902 and refers to “the boy Thomas Kelsey,...
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Walking Chorlton's past .... that popular history talk with Andrew Simpson .... Sunday

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  This Sunday you can walk our past with Andrew Simpson and discover just who you might have to be polite to. Ploughing beside Beech Road, c...

That theatre in Woolwich I wished I could have visited ...... the Royal Artillery Theatre

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Now I must confess I did not know of the Royal Artillery Theatre which was opposite the Royal Artillery Barracks. Cinderella, 1949 Bu...
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