Tuesday, 7 April 2026

The brick works, a forbidden place and a man called Duffy

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It was one of those perfect summer days out beyond Hardy Farm. The sun was hot and the sky a brilliant blue with just a few light clo...
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Coffee…… a bag of coal ….. and a new TV channel ………. Didsbury 1967

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I think this might be the last in the series of Didsbury in the 1960s. I say that but I am sure it’s a promise I won’t keep. This pic...
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The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no.17 the Rising Sun in pale blue

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A short series on the pictures of Eltham and Woolwich in 1976. For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the...
Monday, 6 April 2026

Looking out at the allotments towards Sandy Lane sometime in the 1960s

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Now here are two images of Chorlton which at first glance look familiar.   We are on the allotments with the Park to our rear looking...

A little bit of the High Street in the summer of 1977

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There will be quite a few who remember the High Street like this. I t is the summer of 1977, the Silver Jubilee celebrations are still ...
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Admiring the simplicity of Didsbury Library ……… 1963

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It’s been a while since I have been in the library and had quite forgotten the simplicity of the design. It was built in fulfilment of...
Sunday, 5 April 2026

By train from Chorlton into the Hope Valley in the April of 1957 for a day of rambling

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Now it is Sunday April 7th 1957 and I am on Chorlton railway station waiting for the train from Central which left at 9.45 am and is due...
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