Tuesday, 6 October 2026

When the historic picture postcards …. turn out to be street grids

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Once along time ago you could follow a friend’s holiday adventures by the picture postcards they sent back. Salamanca Firefighters, 2026 Lat...

Down on Maple Avenue with more rare pictures

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This is another of those wonderful images from Ray Jones whose family owned one of the houses on Maple Avenue for over a century, spanning ...
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Sweet Thames Flow Softly*

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The Thames Flows Down is another of those wonderful children's books written in the 1950s. It was the companion to   A Valley G...

The drab street ......the museum ...... and ....... the mural

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  There are some parts of the city that even a bright sunlit day in the middle of a perfect summer  will always be drab and uninviting. And ...
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Monday, 5 October 2026

Hardy Farm ..... on the edge of the Township

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  This is Hardy Farm at the end of Hardy Lane, and you will have to be of an age to remember it. Hardy Farm, 1965 It has gone now, but it ap...
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Just how exotic could Manchester be? ………. memories of 1971

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Now you have to be of a certain age to remember the Ceylon Tea Centre, or its equally enticing rival the Danish Food Centre. An exotic ...
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Of bandstands, demolished churches and a closed pub, Plumstead Common in 1915

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Now every good park should have a bandstand. They were after all the centre of many parks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whi...
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