Tuesday, 10 November 2026

Don't look back ... thoughts after finding Looking at Eltham, 1970

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Front cover showing the High Street Now Eltham is a long way from Chorlton but it was where I grew up and occasionally I am drawn back...
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When Esperanto came to Manchester .... Esperanto Congress, Manchester 1936 .... another story from Lawrence Beedle

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  What took my interest when I spotted this poster stamp was the exonym for Manchester.  It’s definitely Manchester. There is the Town Hall ...
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With Alice McIlwrick, fighting elections in the 1920s in Didsbury and Chorlton

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Alice McIlwrick should be remembered. She was the first Labour candidate to contest a local election here in Chorlton in the November ...
Monday, 9 November 2026

When history gets a bit more personal ......... the Croton family

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Now I like the way that stories become personal, and so it is with two pieces I wrote on  Charles and Reginal Croton who were two our taxi...

Remembering the eight children of Charles, Elizabeth, and Hannah Sharp ....... Ashton under Lyne in the 19th century

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It will have been sometime in the summer of 1979 that I came across this grave stone in the parish church in Ashton-Under-Lyne. The gra...
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Missing that old bridge

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My old bridge circa 1940s I cannot even begin to count the number of times I walked under the railway bridge which spanned Well Hall Ro...
Sunday, 8 November 2026

Buying a book at Wilcox's on Well Hall Road and a thank you

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Well Hall Odeon, circa 1960s It is pretty much one of those things that when you live somewhere you take it for granted. Growing up i...