Sunday, 12 July 2026

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 7 ....... a plough 1894

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A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a paragraph and  a challenge for people to suggest some tha...
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Eltham Park Railway Station ........ the one I never visited

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So, despite living in Eltham for an important chunk of my childhood I never visited Eltham Park Railway Station. Eltham Park Railway Station...

On borrowed time, with tram car 562 in the summer of 1938

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  I do have to say that this is one of my favourites from the collection not least because there is so much going on in the picture. ...
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Saturday, 11 July 2026

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 6 .... three concrete stumps 1959

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A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a paragraph and  a challenge for people to suggest some that are...
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Tram car 283 out from Victoria Park ……. with Mr. William Becket

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I don’t have a date for the picture, but it will be sometime after the Great War. The guard standing in front of the tram is Mr. Wil...

Annie Morris, Ram Alley and more stories of Eltham in the 19th century

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Annie and her son William in 1877 I  am back with Annie Morris whose life in Eltham pretty much covered the period when the place shift...
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Friday, 10 July 2026

We are not an aberration …… when you are not alone .... spaghetti, milk and sugar

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Growing up in southeast London in the 1950s we ate a heap of different foods. Pretty much all of them were cooked from scratch at home using...