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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The 1893 Brass Band ............ lives revealed.

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There has been a brass band in Chorlton since the 1820s which must make it one of the earliest.  During the first half of the 19th cent...
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Thursday, 23 July 2026

A Chorlton wedding in the April of 1913 and a tiny mystery

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I doubt I would ever have got to know about Mr Hugget Billing and Miss Vivien Horsfall Attwood if it weren’t for Sally’s wedding photogra...
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Stories from a century and a bit of making what we eat ….....…

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  The story of what we eat and what we are sold to eat over the last 126 years has seen regular fads and fashions dominated by diets, “healt...

Looking for Mr. Henry Charles Digby of Eltham ……… you go looking for one …. and you find two

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I am the first to say that history is messy and just when you think you have got a story from the past just right, the past throws you a wo...