Friday, 24 July 2026

So were you in the Eltham Hill Gaumont on Sunday September 12 1965?

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Now you pretty much know it’s time to get a life when you go looking for the date for a film listing for the Eltham Hill Gaumont. Elt...
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The 1893 Brass Band ............ lives revealed.

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There has been a brass band in Chorlton since the 1820s which must make it one of the earliest.  During the first half of the 19th cent...
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The Tale at Eltham …….

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Now I really wish I knew just what the “Tale at Eltham" was, but alas it is lost. Nor I suspect did anyone know just what had gone on i...

The story of a strike and of strikes yet to come, part two .... a Chorlton postcard

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On Newton street in July 1911 The Carters came out on strike in Manchester at the beginning of July 1911.  It was the picture of poli...

The woman in a shawl at the foot of Oliver Cromwell in the summer of 1914

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It’s the last of my Judge postcards.  Like the others in the series which Fred Judge took in the summer of 1914 it has much going for ...
Thursday, 23 July 2026

A Chorlton wedding in the April of 1913 and a tiny mystery

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I doubt I would ever have got to know about Mr Hugget Billing and Miss Vivien Horsfall Attwood if it weren’t for Sally’s wedding photogra...
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Stories from a century and a bit of making what we eat ….....…

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  The story of what we eat and what we are sold to eat over the last 126 years has seen regular fads and fashions dominated by diets, “healt...