Friday, 17 July 2026

Five pictures …… one road …… and a heap of Chorlton’s story

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This is Brook Lane in 1909 on the cusp of a change. 1909 For centuries it had led out of the village past the old Bowling Green Hotel, cross...
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Rescuing five Manchester Radicals ……………"from the enormous condescension of posterity”

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How easy it is to lose our history, and once lost how much more difficult to retrieve. Alexander Somerville, 1848 This I know is not ...

A little bit of our history down at the Co-op

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2d token issued by the R.A.C.S., date unknown It’s so easy to lose so much of our history. Now the big things like the homes of the g...

Walking the River ....... the Power Station

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A short series taken from one day when I walked along the River. Back then the Thames was still a place to to earn a wage and watch a...

Help us restore a bit of Chorlton’s lost story …...

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Many of you will be familiar with the large “History Wall” which for over a year fronted the building site on what had been Chorlton Swimmin...
Thursday, 16 July 2026

Walking along the High Street in 1908, calling in for a pint and a packet of sweets

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Walking down the south side of the High Street in 1909 So this is a walk down the southern side of the High Street in 1908 or 1909. N...

Henry Hunt ………. “and the Manchester Monument to Perpetuate His Memory”

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I am back with Henry “Orator” Hunt who the Chartist newspaper described as the “one of the most bold, most strenuous , most disinterested a...