Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Of horses, an RAF Band and a night at the Cheetham Assembly Rooms in November 1944

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Now I wonder just how packed the Cheetham Assembly Rooms were, when the “Full RAF Rhythm Band” played on the Saturday of November 25 1944. ...

The Library ..... the pub ..... and the oilman .... with a thank you to Village Eltham

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Now I know there will be plenty of pictures of the library knocking around and I dare say some better quality versions of this one which dat...
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A new park for Chorlton?

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It’s not much of a story really but it does point to the changes that had been taking place in Chorlton over the last two decades of th...
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Monday, 14 September 2026

Fourteen random pictures in search of a story …. photographs from a Chorlton house

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I am looking at a collection of photographs found in a house. They are mix of images all of which I guess date from the middle decades of th...

Just when you thought you knew the age of the Trevor Arms on Beech Road

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The Trevor was my local from 1976 well into the middle of the next decade and was a busy and happy place. At the time and until quite r...
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Along time in the story of a house in Eltham

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Cliefden House in 1909 Now I am back at Cliefden House. This grand 18th century property is still there on the High Street opposite P...
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Out on Bury Road in 1949 ..............

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Now, I like this picture, for lots of different reasons. It was taken just a few months before I was born, out along Bury Old Road. O...