Friday, 6 November 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 95 Royton Street ...

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  You won’t find Royton Street. Spinningfields, 2020 It vanished long ago under the Spinneyfields development but for a century and more it ...

That club on Brookburn Road in Chorlton ....... and a fascinating find

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This is the United Services Club on Brookburn Road, just thirty years after it was opened in 1928. The club in 1958 I have to confess...
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Discovering Eltham

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Cover of the new edition 2000 I am back in Eltham where I grew up in the 1960s on the Progress Estate. They say you should never g...
Thursday, 5 November 2026

When you make cheap comments about James Fraser ….

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So earlier today I was a tad unfair to James Fraser, former Bishop of Manchester. James Fraser, former Bishop of Manchester, 2026 His statue...

36 barrels of gunpowder ..... that horrendous act .... and a noisy night of fireworks

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Now there is a pernicious and pervasive way of thinking which looks for conspiracy everywhere. Mutterings and secret plans, 1604 As a way of...

So ……… who pinched the tennis courts by the Lloyd’s Hotel?

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Now , everyone knows that the Lloyds has a bowling green, which will date from soon after the hotel was built in the late 1860s. The Lloyds,...
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The one on the corner of Concert Lane and Spring Gardens …..

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I must have passed this building countless times since I washed up in the city in 1969. Where Spring Gardens meets Concert Lane, 2026 Back i...