Monday, 31 August 2026

Revisiting County Street ...... Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 96

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 T his is County Street which is so unremarkable that it’s another of those narrow side streets not even worth a glance. County Street, 2026...

Uncovering a bit of the life of Lewis St J R Clutterbuck of Westmount Road in Eltham

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Gertie's postcard 1915 Recently I was with Gertie about to send her postcard from Westmount Road in 1915. She was keen to tell h...

Picking up the packet boat from Stretford and then post haste to Castlefield on the Duke’s Canal

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Now I often write about living in the township in the mid 19th century and I reckon if I had wanted to travel into Manchester it would have...
Sunday, 30 August 2026

Today I forget the history …. and celebrate the green bean

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Well, I say forget the history but that’s not likely and anyway I bet there is a long and fascinating book on green beans through the ages. ...

When Harold married Alma in the April of 1928 at Dartford

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I am looking at two images which are now 90 years old. This was the wedding celebrations of Harold Morris and Alma Minnie Shove in Ap...

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester ................ nu 53 Silver Street, a bus station and some nasty history

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Now this is Chorlton Street Bus Station in the 1960s and the image presents a bit of mystery, but more of that later. Chorlton Street B...
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Crossing in to Stretford in the winter of 1857

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Sometimes it is so easy to become parochial and so today I decided to reflect on how things were at the end of Edge Lane, over the Duke...