Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Trams across Warsaw

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I like trams.   And that affection stretches from the old tall and stately looking Corporation trams which for over half a century trundled ...

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 20, a tram and the railway line that is 132 years old

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Concluding the story of Chorlton in just a paragraph. They are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at random. For m...

Walking the woods above Well Hall in 1977

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Sometimes it is worth remembering just how pleasant it is to live in Eltham. When we first arrived in 1964 I had no idea that just abov...
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Exploring the butchers of Peterloo ………. The 101 men of the Manchester Yeomanry

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The passage of 200 years has not dimmed the horror of the actions of the Manchester Yeomanry on that hot day in the August of 1819. The...
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Monday, 17 August 2026

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 19, a Liverpool half penny dated 1791

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Continuing the story of Chorlton in just a paragraph. They are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at random. For th...

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 18 Marriot's Court

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This is Marriot’s Court which for some people will just be a cut through from Spring Gardens to Brown Street and for others that narrow lit...

Painting that house in Eltham for just £4 12s 6d ............

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I don’t do nostalgia and I am very quick to always point out that prices in the past must always be compared to take home pay . But ...