Monday, 27 July 2026

Hardy Farm ............ the picture I have never seen before

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Now there are not that many pictures of Hardy Farm and that is a shame. I included one of the most well known in the book on Chorlton ...
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Sherard House and Church Row in Eltham in 1841 and Richard White census enumerator

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Sherard House from the garden, 1909 This is Sherard House and once again I set out to describe the place and once again I have got side...

"I had forgotten how black the town hall was" .......... pictures from Linda

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The thing about old picture postcards is that there is usually a story which goes with them. Albert Square, circa 1960s Often that st...
Sunday, 26 July 2026

Chorlton's brass band

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There is something about old photographs and as much as I like the ones of the buildings, fields and roads of Chorlton it is those that ...

A bit of the old Albert Square ….. in Manchester in 1969

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One of the things I like about photographs is that quite often there are stories within stories. So here we are in 1969, with what I take to...

Heating and hammering at the smithy on Eltham High Street in the June of 1840

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The smithy close to the present library, 1909 I like the way that Eltham is revealing more of its past. Now I say Eltham as if it was...
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Saturday, 25 July 2026

The short life of a Chorlton Post Office ….. and the lost Fleming Hall

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 It began life shortly after Chorlton’s main Post Office on Wilbraham Road was badly damaged during the Manchester Blitz in December 1940. ...
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