Saturday, 19 September 2026

Manchester …. ready for another international event?

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  Now Manchester does its bit at hosting international events, from heaps of football matches to the Commonwealth Games and possibility the ...

Walking Chorlton's past .... that popular history talk with Andrew Simpson .... tomorrow

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  This Sunday you can walk our past with Andrew Simpson and discover just who you might have to be polite to. Ploughing beside Beech Road, c...

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton …. part 162 …. endings

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The continuing story   of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* Long bef...
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In search of an adventure out of Peckham ............. foot tunnels and a strange find

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Now the thing about adventures is that there should be no rules, no preplanning and just an optimistic expectation that it will all turn ou...
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Two pictures …. a memory …… and a lost landscape

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  Memories fade and eventually are lost and so these two images of Manchester on August 1st, 1957, are a powerful reminder of what the city ...
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What were the 3rd Battalion of the Manchester Pals doing at Alex Park in the September of 1914? ........... stories behind the book nu 10

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An occasional series on the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War .* The entrance to Alexandra Park, 1907 Now t...
Friday, 18 September 2026

Your invite to a new way of telling the stories of Greater Manchester …. today

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 So, today at Chorlton Library  you have the opportunity to roam over the history of Greater Manchester in a new and unique way. Peter Top...