Saturday, 6 June 2026

Listening to Leonard Cohen opposite the Yorkshire Grey on a cold December night in 1966

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I like the music of Leonard Cohen. Me in 1966 They are songs I dip into now and then. And today I want to reflect on the very f...
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Claude Road and a clue to the vanished Beech House

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The date on this postcard of Claude Road is 1915 but the scene must be earlier. On the surface it seems an unremarkable image. I...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 21 .......... Parsonage Lane

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Now Parsonage Lane really is one of those little side streets which grows wider as you follow it down from Deansgate to Parsonasge. ...
Friday, 5 June 2026

Lost images of Whalley Range part 3 the Whalley Hotel

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I only ever once visited the Whalley Hotel which I think was sometime around the summer of 1975. There was never any particular reason ...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 45 ......... Southern Street ....... all gone

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Looking down Southern Street, 2003 This is Southern Street as it looked at the beginning of this century. Back then some of the old l...

Greenwich Park, the moment a full 53 years ago .......... nu 1 the walk

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It will be a full 55 years ago but the memory of that walk through Greenwich Park on a Saturday in September 1971 has never left me. I...
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Celebrating Chorlton ..... down at our library today

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All this month there is a selection of paintings of Chorlton people with the intriguing title of Chorlton Champions. I have never liked that...