Friday, 28 August 2026

Manchester Victoria … more than just a railway station

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Manchester Victoria still retains that grandeur which allowed it once to boast it was the gateway to the north, Scotland and Ireland as well...

Harold Morris of Eltham and Welling, a life lived out in service to the community.... part 2

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In that great sweep of history marked by revolutions, wars and natural disasters most of us will not even get a footnote in some long and...

The day I thought I was in the country …… urban tales from Chorlton-cum-Hardy

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Now, the purist will immediately point out I was not in Chorlton nor the countryside. But on a hot summer’s day sometime at the end of the 1...
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Making do in the kitchen …. food ….. rationing …. and heaps of imagination

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In a time of relative abundance when the supermarket shelves groan with food from pretty much every corner of the world and chefs and restau...
Thursday, 27 August 2026

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton …. part 162 …. endings

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The continuing story   of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* Long bef...
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Discovering the forgotten

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I don’t suppose Charles Taylor or his wife Ann would have been much surprised that their home has not survived. Taylor's Court, 1849 In ...

Harold Morris of Eltham and Welling, a life lived out in service to the community.... part 1

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This is the young Harold Morris sometime in the early 1920s. It is a wonderful picture not least because it takes us into a lost world ...
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