Sunday, 2 August 2026

Blink … and you could miss Soap Street

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You could easily miss Soap Street. Soap Street, 2026 It is one those narrow thoroughfares off Thomas Street which loops round to come out on...

The picture of Annie Magee on Hawthorn Lane and that young Chorlton bandsman

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Now if there is a simple lesson about old photographs it’s that you should never take them at face value. So here is a picture from Pet...
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The story of a strike and of strikes yet to come, part two .... a Chorlton postcard

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On Newton street in July 1911 The Carters came out on strike in Manchester at the beginning of July 1911.  It was the picture of poli...

Posters from the Past ........... no 17 ......... Woolwich .......Walking The River

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Now the project is simple, take an image of a building we all love and turn it into the style of poster which was popular in the middle de...
Saturday, 1 August 2026

The Tale at Eltham …….

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Now I really wish I knew just what the “Tale at Eltham" was, but alas it is lost. Nor I suspect did anyone know just what had gone on i...

The woman in a shawl at the foot of Oliver Cromwell in the summer of 1914

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It’s the last of my Judge postcards.  Like the others in the series which Fred Judge took in the summer of 1914 it has much going for ...

In celebration of Chorlton People ….. at our Library ... in August

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I am enjoying the library’s current series of exhibitions under the broad title of “Works of Art By Local People” . And starting in August t...