Tuesday, 18 November 2025

See here the villains of the piece …….. trolley buses and motor buses kill off the tram

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Now I have no love for the trolley bus ……… and remember too many journeys where I felt ill soon after we boarded. I think it was a co...

A little bit of our unremarkable past ...... that hut in the Rec

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Now here is a little piece of our past which makes me very happy. The picture was taken in 1980 and confirms that I wasn’t imagining th...
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The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no.23 one that I thought would last for ever

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For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the mid ‘70’s sat undisturbed in our cellar. But all good things even...
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Monday, 17 November 2025

A new history of Chorlton in 20 objects, number 8, an amusement arcade and the future of Beech Road circa 1983

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I can’t be exactly sure of the date of the picture but it was during the early 1980s when Beech Road was about to enter its troubled peri...

The lost pictures from home ...... no.24 a favourite pub

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For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the mid ‘70’s sat undisturbed in our cellar. But all good things eventually ...

Out to East Didsbury from Albert Square ……. on the new tram

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I say the new tram, because quite clearly this wasn’t the old fashioned tall stately tram which rattled its way around the city at the st...
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Sunday, 16 November 2025

Walking the River to that skyline .......... no. 10 ...... from The Goldsmith Collection

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As skies go it was pretty dramatic. Location; Greenwich Picture; the River, 2017, from the collection of Jillian Goldsmith