Saturday, 25 July 2026

Walking Well Hall in the April of 1844

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Well Hall in 1746 Walk along Well Hall Road which runs from the High Street north to Shooters Hill  on a sunny day and  it is a pleasan...
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Now …… you can wait for a bit of the past .... then two turn up at the same time …….. outside Manchester Cathedral

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So, here are two bits of how we lived. Both have now long vanished. The last Manchester Corporation tram completed its last journey i...

The picture of Annie Magee on Hawthorn Lane and that young Chorlton bandsman

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Now if there is a simple lesson about old photographs it’s that you should never take them at face value. So here is a picture from Pet...
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Who stole Alton Towers?

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Today I was reminded by my old Facebook chum Bill Summers of that house on Edge Lane called Alton Towers. Alton Towers, 1907 Like him I have...
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Friday, 24 July 2026

Looking for the lost 32 cottages and 15 cellars, home to 208 people

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Looking down Commercial Street, 2015 Now I first wandered down Commercial Street sometime in the 1980s looking for Omega Street, and...

When fast food predated the 20th century …..instant meals for the workers on our Victorian streets

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We take for granted that breakfast was and still is for many something you have at home but this has not always been the case.   Throughout ...

So were you in the Eltham Hill Gaumont on Sunday September 12 1965?

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Now you pretty much know it’s time to get a life when you go looking for the date for a film listing for the Eltham Hill Gaumont. Elt...
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