Thursday, 5 March 2026

Three handcarts ...... and a mystery location

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Once, a long time ago the hand cart was the all-purpose form of transporting goods for people of meagre earnings. They remain for many...
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So, who did pay for the Chorlton Conservative Club back in 1891? ……… And why it matters

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Now there will be some who dismiss the question either because they hold no time for the Conservative Party and others who can’t see the rel...
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"Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep."* ...... Margaret Beaufort ... today on the wireless

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Perhaps a controversial  way to sum up Margaret Beaufort the mother of Henry Tudor but then Shakespeare always has the best words. Lady Marg...

The class of '68 part 4 widening horizons and lots of fun

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Few of us get the chance to leave a past life with all its associations and disappointments behind and start out a fresh. This is prett...
Wednesday, 4 March 2026

The class of ’68 part 3 a comprehensive school called Crown Woods

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Crown Woods wasn’t the only comprehensive school delivering a fine education but it was the one I went to. So it is a place I can talk ...
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Chorlton’s palace of varieties …………. part one ....... The Chorlton Pavilion and Winter Gardens

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Now there is always more to find out about our old theatres and cinemas, and so it is with the Chorlton Theatre and Winter Gardens, which i...
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Walking the streets of Hightown .... a full century ago

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I remain in awe of those writers who can sum up someone in a few simple sentences. Outside lavatory, Back Percival Street, 1951 Dicke...
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