Saturday, 4 July 2026

This is how you honour a shop with history

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Today over fifty people gathered on an indifferent morning to commemorate and indeed celebrate one of our local Co-ops. Gathering for the ev...

Chubby Checker, cowboys and Pathe News ........... Saturday morning at Well Odeon with a thank you to Sandra

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Now  I am revisiting Saturday morning pictures and in particular the Odeon at Well Hall . And as ever the memories came flooding back w...

Picking a municipal bus company and travelling across the city in 1963

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Cover of Maps of Manchester & District, 1963 Now I am looking at a copy of the 1963 Manchester bus routes which my friend David has...
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History on display today ... the Chorlton event not to miss ..... at 11 am at the Co-op on Barlow Moor Road

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  History comes in all shapes and sizes and none more so than the Hardy Lane Co-op store here in Chorlton which is just a tad short of celeb...

Living on the edge of the village, part 3 of the story of our own one up one down cottages

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It is another one of the buildings that has fascinated me and is now revealing some of its secrets and in doing so has a lot to say ab...
Friday, 3 July 2026

A lost photograph and a clue to a vanished building

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Sometimes you fall across a picture by chance which fills in a gap in your knowledge and at the same time is a joy to look at in its ow...
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The wrath of the Jelly Men …….. comic terrors no.1 …… 1960

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In truth I wasn’t frightened of the Jelly Men ….. more just fascinated. They appeared one day in the Beezer sometime in 1960 as an invading ...
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