Monday, 29 June 2026

A postcard and a memory of our declining rural past

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This remains one of my favourite pictures of the old church.  It was taken sometime before September 1904 but could have been at any ti...

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 92 ...... Cannon Court

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Cannon Court has tidied its act up  a lot since I first stumbled across it in 1969, soon after I arrived in Manchester. 1967 I rememb...
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Celebrating who we are .... down at the Library

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Community is a much-used word but at its best is about how we react with others, how we look out for everyone and a pleasure in recognising ...

A film star, a fish market and a bit of speedway, Britannia of Billingsgate … 1933

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Now we can all have slow days, which is how I came to roam the database of old postcards hosted by Tuck DB .* And having viewed their select...
Sunday, 28 June 2026

Ours was a place dominated by working animals

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Ours was a place  dominated by working animals. For centuries the main draught animal had been the oxen and in some parts of the coun...

Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ........... nu 25 a busy day on Chapel Street

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I suppose it is pretty much the case that Chapel Street has always been a busy spot. I don’t have a date but there maybe a clue in the ...
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Another of those vanished scenes ........... the Thames and Tower Bridge

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Now you will have to be the wrong side of 40 to be able to recall this scene. The date on the card is 1936 but the scene with cargo shi...