Thursday, 23 April 2026

Slavery by another name? .....Indian Indentured Labour .... on the wireless today

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Now this is one I am listening to. It is another in the series from BBC Radio 4's In Our Time . "Misha Glenny and guests discuss ho...

Historians of Chorlton .......... N.Fife

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One of the things I like about local history is the way it draws people in.  People who have no historical training, possibly finished...

In the parish graveyard

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I wish I had spent more time exploring the parish grave yard. But when you are growing up wandering past the monuments to the long de...
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London Road …….. January 24th 1959 …………..

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This remains one of my all-time favourites from Eddie Johnson’s book on Manchester Railway Termini.* Until recently I had not got round to a...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2026

In Eltham with the Reverend John Kenward Shaw Brooke and some revealing records

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John Kenward Shaw Brooke from an engraving in the church I  am sitting looking at a picture of the Reverend John Kenward Shaw Brooke an...
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Salford Station ............ the one you miss

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It’s the one you miss. Salford Central Station is on New Bailey Street and is set back between two railway viaducts. So travelling...
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Historians of Chorlton ................. Cliff Hayes

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I wish I met Cliff Hayes, unlike all of the historians I have posted he was around Chorlton during all the time I have lived here.  Tru...
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