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...
Saturday, 27 June 2026

This Is London ........ a unique guide to the London of 1959

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Now I have no idea why I never got a copy of This Is London. * Cover of This is London I guess that there are only so many books th...

A day out on the meadows ..... circa 1910

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The caption reads, “the footbridge over the stream at Brook Road entrance to the meadows.   From this bridge there was a diagonal pat...

Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 58 ................. Booth Street

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Now Booth Street is just what you would expect of one of those twisty little streets off Chapel Street which make their way down to the riv...
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Friday, 26 June 2026

A book called Alice …. a thunderstorm ….and the lazy buzz of visiting bees … the non-history story

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August into September used to be known as the silly season when with Parliament in recess along with the law courts nothing much stirred lea...