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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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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When the internet proves better than your memory

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Now I have been  reflecting on that day in August 1970 when along with thousands of others I listened to a host of bands at the Isle of Wig...
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