Monday, 28 September 2026

Walking the River ......... the scenic route

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A short series taken from one day when I walked along the River. Back then the Thames was still a place to to earn a wage and watch a...

A Chorlton Chartist, Alexander Somerville, well almost

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I think I am close to finding my Chorlton Chartist. Or in fact two, although having said that neither was born here or lived here, bu...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 47 or so years ago …… walking the Rochdale in 1979

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 A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Ba...
Sunday, 27 September 2026

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 47 or so years ago .......... walking the Rochdale in 1979

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  A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield B...

When we made cider and perry here in Chorlton in 1847

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Back in 1847, the journalist Alexander Somerville had walked the lanes of Chorlton looking for evidence of potato blight, that disease whi...
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Crossing the Thames at Woolwich on the Will Crooks

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This is one of the old ferries which plied the crossing taking thousands to work and not a few just to see north Woolwich. The crossing...
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Saturday, 26 September 2026

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 47 or so years ago ..... walking the Rochdale in 1979

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A short series bringing together for the fist time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Basin...
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