Monday, 11 May 2026

The Morecambe Flip …… and other stories

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Memories of the Milk Maid in Piccadilly will fast be fading from living memories. The Milk Maid, 1906 Mine is sitting in the Milk Maid looki...

Searching the picture ….. London Road 1895

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This is a photograph of London Road where it joins Store Street and we are in 1895. London Road, 1895 There is nothing very remarkable about...

Music from the Jewish diaspora ……. here in Chorlton

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Chorlton Arts Festival just keeps giving ....... from paintings to poets, to drama and music .... its got the lot.* James Nissen And last n...

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...

Calling in at the parish church on a spring day in 1851 at the start of our Eltham walk

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The Old Vicarage from Well Hall Lane, 1833 Now I had planned on starting our walk up the High Street in the spring of 1851 at Sherad Ho...
Sunday, 10 May 2026

In our village school on the green in the spring of 1847

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Our village school on the green circa 1870 From, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, The Story* In 1847 our village school was just two years old.  ...

A community play ............ for a community festival

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Our arts festival is now in full swing and yesterday one of the events caught perfectly the guiding principle of “a community Arts Festival ...