Thursday, 15 January 2026

On finding Mr Hanburys forgotten shopping bag ...... tales from a Chorlton supermarket

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Now a little bit of our collective past bounced across my screen in the form of an old shopping bag from Hanburys. A treasure from Hanbu...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester ........ nu 91 .........Higher Temple Street

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You won’t find Higher Temple Street. It went in the clearance of 19th century houses which also did for the surrounding network of stre...
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On the 161 heading for Well Hall and home

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Some of the best photographs are the ones that leave you thinking. Here as this 161 enters Well Hall Road on its way to Chislehurst,...
Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Turning up bits of Chorlton’s history in the most unexpected places .... the T shirt

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Now here is a bit of history, and like lots of good history it is something that takes us directly to one person’s story. It belongs to...

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 46 ...... the one with the canal

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I am on Camp Street just off Deansgate Camps Street, 1938 And if I wanted to be more accurate we are standing in the Manchester and S...

The Welcome Inn ................... the early days

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Now some stories just have a habit of not wanting to go away. They stay hanging around challenging you to go off and discover something...
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Tuesday, 13 January 2026

Uncertain times ……… when nasty bits of history don’t go away

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I suppose every generation at some point comes to terms that with uncertain times, threats become real and the unthinkable becomes a prospec...
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