Thursday, 6 August 2026

When we had a piano shop on Beech Road

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Sometimes a picture captures a moment which with hindsight allows you to see that things were just about to change .  Here is another ...

The shock of the new ...........travelling the railway in 1830

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Now I am not sure that some of the detail is completely accurate on this painting by A.B. Clayton of the “Inaugural journey of the Liver...

On Shooters Hill in 1909

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Looking down Shooters Hill in 1909 I am back on Shooters Hill in the June of 1841 thinking about the small community of 58 people who l...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2026

“Making do” …… rationing … cooking … and that lost world of 1946

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I often return to L.P. Hartley’s novel The Go Between with its story of class, romance and redemption, made more memorable for me by that li...

A Chorlton secret ……. the demolished cinema …….. and Mr. Shaw’s superior garage

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 Unless you were in the know I doubt you would ever have realized that behind the shops on Barlow Moor Road between the former Co-op and Cor...
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Looking for our memorial to Manchester’s Cholera deaths

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Now I may well have missed it, but I don’t think we have a memorial to those who perished in the great Cholera outbreak of 1832. The Ch...
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On Shooters Hill remembering the Great War at Christ Church

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I am back on Shooters Hill in the company of Darrel Spurgeon's guide book.* It is a book I keep returning to because it contains so...
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