Wednesday, 6 May 2026

The image that defined the North

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And not just the north but of working class communities across the country. This scene is, I think Lower Byrom Street, but I could be w...

In one of the six Alms Houses on Eltham High Street in 1851

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The Alms Houses in 1909 For many of us the Workhouse with its stigma and the horrors that went with being shut up behind its grim walls...

Living at 523 Barlow Moor Road in the 1940s

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I am back with the memories of my friend Ann who grew up in a big house on Barlow Moor Road in the 1940s and 50s. Her parents ran an un...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Merlewood House in the High Street and a hint of how the other half lived in the spring of 1851

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Merlewood House in 1909 We are looking at Merlewood House which was one of those fine old houses Eltham did so well. It stood just ea...

Lost on the streets of my city

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Now one of the advantages of a misspent youth is that I am fairly familiar with the streets of Manchester. From 1969 for three years as...
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Views from a Chorlton window …… sixty years ago

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Yesterday I was looking out on Barlow Moor Road in the summer of 1960 in the company of Ann Love. Now given that Ann lives in France, and I ...
Monday, 4 May 2026

Strikes ….memories ….. and Miss Dannimac ….. more from the Manchester Jewish Museum

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single visit to a museum is never enough and must be followed by a second, third and fourth. ...