Sunday, 18 January 2026

Lost stories in a forgotten street ……. the one behind Deansgate

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Now it is easy to shudder and feel outrage at the accounts of housing conditions in the poor parts of Manchester in the first half of the 19...
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A little bit of history in the back garden ……. “Scrubbs Cloudy Ammonia”

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Two bottles ..... with Scrubbs to the left, 2023 It is a given that if you have a garden at some point something will turn up, and if you ar...

A lost Eltham Palace nu 2 .............. The Banqueting Hall in 1782

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Now I have decided to run a few pictures of what Eltham Palace looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had long been abandoned a...
Saturday, 17 January 2026

D Day ...... AD 43 .......Portrait Of An Age ..... and the death of General Gordan

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Pan Edition 1961 I have begun re-reading The Great Invasion by Leonard Cottrell. It was first published in 1958 and describes the Rom...

A lost Eltham Palace nu 1 ................ The Banqueting Hall

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Now I have decided to run a few pictures of what Eltham Palace looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had long been abandoned a...
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A lost Chorlton bottle ….. the Beech Road offi ……… and a trip back to a Dickensian Manchester

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It started with the find of a broken bottle in a garden on Wilton Road. The lost and found bottle, 2023 My friend Declan wrote “Hi Andrew. N...
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A choice of images on Red Lion Street and the story of a lost church

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From Red Lion Street, 2014 I am always fascinated at how a photographer chooses an image. The best capture something about a place a...