Wednesday, 24 December 2025

Christmas Eve with the Eagle

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Christmas Eve with the Eagle The Eagle always celebrated Christmas by decorating the main panel. Location; Christmas Picture, E...

The Eltham we have lost, part 3........ Making hay a rick at Lyme Farm

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Another of those pictures of Eltham’s past which need no comment This was  Lyme Farm as the labourers were constructing a hay rick in 1...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 45 or so years ago .......... walking the Rochdale in 1979

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  A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield B...

Looking for stories ………. from one house in Chorlton

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Now, it has become popular to take a pretty ordinary house and trace its story back in time. The house, 1959 I have to confess it is somethi...

The art of Christmas ………. part three

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The third in the series featuring festive menus from Blackpool hotels covering the period from the late 1940s through to 1969. They come fro...
Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Robin .... A Christmas Annual from the Hulton Press, in 1953

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This is another of those comic annuals which were published by Hulton Press. Robin was aimed at very young children and while I reme...

Shopping for Christmas ..... with T.C. Whitaker on Beech Road

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It is the shop of Thomas Charles Whittaker at the bottom of Beech Road where it curves round into the Green. And for me the attraction...