Wednesday, 9 September 2026

On Barlow Moor Road at the Macfadyn Memorial Church sometime in 1929 with a postcard from mother

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Recently I was at the Macfadyn Memorial Church on Barlow Moor Road, sometime between 1903 and 1913. And today I am back again at alm...

Looking down on a vanished Castlefield ....... circa 1972

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Now it is easy to forget just how run down, neglected and pretty dismal was the area around the Castlefield Canal Basin just a few decades ...
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The Welcome Inn ................... the early days

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Now some stories just have a habit of not wanting to go away. They stay hanging around challenging you to go off and discover something...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Past Kemp's Corner and up to Redgate Farm in the summer of 1900

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Looking across the Isles, 1882 This is another one of those walks I would like to have taken if only to set the contrast from what I...

The scene that has all but passed out of living memory

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Now I know that to suggest the scene has passed out of living memory is an outrageous claim, given that the picture was taken in 1963, whic...
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Going to the “flicks” in 1928

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This will be the easiest cinema story, and is just a list of which picture houses were around in Eltham and Woolwich in 1928. The chall...
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Monday, 7 September 2026

When a pint of Eltham Ale cost 4d and was brewed at our brewery.............. Eltham in 1874

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Eltham Brewery, 1874 I often wonder just what a pint of Eltham Ale would have tasted like. It was brewed buy our own Eltham Brewery a...