Saturday, 7 November 2026

Sunday in a Manchester Park

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Now I have always liked this painting, and it perfectly conjures up a Sunday on a warm summer’s day in a Manchester park. Writing in 19...
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Chorlton-cum-Hardy does its bit

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Now, there is always a story behind a picture, and so it is with this one of a tent carrying the name Chorlton-cum-Hardy. The tent, 192...
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A wopping big bit of Eltham’s past ........... and the historian who wrote it

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Now every place deserves a historian and a good history book and Eltham had R.R.C.Gregory who wrote the Story of Royal Eltham in 1909 which...
Friday, 6 November 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 95 Royton Street ...

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  You won’t find Royton Street. Spinningfields, 2020 It vanished long ago under the Spinneyfields development but for a century and more it ...

That club on Brookburn Road in Chorlton ....... and a fascinating find

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This is the United Services Club on Brookburn Road, just thirty years after it was opened in 1928. The club in 1958 I have to confess...
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Discovering Eltham

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Cover of the new edition 2000 I am back in Eltham where I grew up in the 1960s on the Progress Estate. They say you should never g...
Thursday, 5 November 2026

When you make cheap comments about James Fraser ….

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So earlier today I was a tad unfair to James Fraser, former Bishop of Manchester. James Fraser, former Bishop of Manchester, 2026 His statue...