Sunday, 25 January 2026

That house “half as old as time” ….. and heaps of stories ...Kibworth Harcourt

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This is the Old House in Kibworth Harcourt.  The Old House, 2024 It dates from 1678 and along with its garden walls is a Grade 1 Listed Buil...

A pub ... a farm.... and that walk through Chorlton-cum-Hardy in 1881

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Now I grant you this isn’t the zippiest of titles, but it does the business. We are standing at the junction of Barlow Moor Road and Wilbrah...

Walking the Thames

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Now I am the first to admit it’s a bit of a silly title but that is exactly what my friend Neil did, once under the river at Woolwich and t...
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Another side of the remarkable and popular Manchester photographer Robert Banks

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Uppermill circa 1890 Robert Banks was one of those remarkable Victorian self made men, who went from being a woollen piercer in a mill ...
Saturday, 24 January 2026

The picture …. the municipal venture ….. and half a mystery solved

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Here is a picture I keep coming back to. At the Electricity showrooms, undated It is a popular one which keeps cropping up on social media a...

A lost Chorlton bottle ….. the Beech Road offi ……… and a trip back to a Dickensian Manchester

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It started with the find of a broken bottle in a garden on Wilton Road. The lost and found bottle, 2023 My friend Declan wrote “Hi Andrew. N...
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Lost Woolwich .......... no 4 a football team

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Now of all the places I knew in my youth I have to say Woolwich is one of those that has  undergone some of the most radical change. So...