Sunday, 15 November 2026

Images of old Eltham and a warning for the future

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Just sixty-two years separate these two images of Eltham.  The first dates from 1915 not long after the southern end of Well Hall Road ...

Princess Road …. Chorlton-cum-Hardy …. two mysteries .. only one solved

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Princess Road was off Neale Road and is now Pinewood Road. Princess Road, 1933 I came across it while searching for something else, and it w...

Salford women in uniform nu 2 .......... the gas inspectors

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During the Great War women began to replace men in a wide range of industries. In the May of 1915 Salford Corporation took on 15 women ...
Saturday, 14 November 2026

Waiting for the coal man

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Enoch Royle the coal man circa 1930 There is something very reassuring about hearing the fire and the kitchen range being racked out in...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 19 ........... the unremarkable

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* Now there is noth...
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Working a Salford Corporation Tram in 1917 ............ Salford women in uniform

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I like the way that stories have a habit of reappearing and so it is with Miss Rebecca Chapman of Hodson Street who in 1918 began work wit...
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Friday, 13 November 2026

That deadly smog …. a Clean Air Act…. and the story today …. on the wireless

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I grew up with smog. It was just the background to living in London in the 1940ss and 50s. Of course, all our cities and towns were prone to...
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