Thursday, 25 December 2025

Christmas in Chorlton, circa 1989 and a quest for a special toy

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Raphael Anyone with children born in the 1980s will remember the desperate hunt to collect the four Ninja Turtle figures. I can’t rem...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 45 or so years ago …… walking the Rochdale in 1979

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 A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Ba...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 18 ........... Christmas 1958

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* Actually it would be a...
Wednesday, 24 December 2025

Christmas Eve with the Eagle

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Christmas Eve with the Eagle The Eagle always celebrated Christmas by decorating the main panel. Location; Christmas Picture, E...

The Eltham we have lost, part 3........ Making hay a rick at Lyme Farm

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Another of those pictures of Eltham’s past which need no comment This was  Lyme Farm as the labourers were constructing a hay rick in 1...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 45 or so years ago .......... walking the Rochdale in 1979

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  A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield B...

Looking for stories ………. from one house in Chorlton

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Now, it has become popular to take a pretty ordinary house and trace its story back in time. The house, 1959 I have to confess it is somethi...