Wednesday, 8 April 2026

What's in a name? Pound Place by Eltham High Street in the summer of 1909

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Looking south into Pound Place, 1905 “Pound Place is the name of the street on the side of the High Street opposite the Public Library....

Buying a TV from Park Wireless in the August of 1951

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I am looking at an advert for Park Wireless a company which sold electrical goods across south Manchester including Chorlton.*   The ye...
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On this day in 1911 ……….on Wilmslow Road

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Now, I know exactly where we are on Wilmlsow Road, and I know exactly when we were there. Walking the Coronation, 1911 And this is be...
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...