Saturday, 10 January 2026

When Mr. Bradshaw ignored All Saints Church on Blackheath

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You would have to be pretty mean spirited to ignore that church on the heath. It stands on the southern edge of Blackheath, was described by...

Who laments the passing of the old milk machine?

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It is as much a piece of history as the Penny Farthing bike or the old fashioned tram.   I am trying to remember when I would have use...
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The story of one family in Chorlton ........... part 4 working at Brook Farm in the summer of 1927

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It is easy to forget that just two generations ago we still had a number of independent dairies here in Chorlton and stories of being sent ...
Friday, 9 January 2026

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton ....... part 161 .... avocado, sweetcorn, mango and a dollop of Vesta curry

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  The continuing story   of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* Five ...

The way we were ............. just 56 years ago

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Now it is easy to forget that well within the living memory of most of us the City was still full of tiny workshops which wouldn’t have bee...

A silk from France .......... postcards from the Western Front

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Now I have no idea if the soldier who purchased this embroidered silk postcard was from Eltham. A message from the 8th London Regimen...

The story of one family in Chorlton ........... part 3 down on Hawthorn Lane in 1925

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Yesterday I stood on exactly the same spot where young Nellie Spencer posed for this picture in the summer of 1925 and as you do I looked ...
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