Monday, 10 August 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 78 Gaythorn Street and a pub

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I like the way that a demolition site can reveal a rare glance of a building which has pretty much been hidden for a very long time. ...
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A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 12 ....... an engraved silver cup 1917

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Continuing the  story of Chorlton in just a paragraph. They are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at random. Prese...

Lost on Sidcup High Street, looking for Boots the Chemist

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Now I am on a roll. Having recently wandered up Sidcup High Street in 1961  as far as the old ABC, I back again today. It is another ...
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Sunday, 9 August 2026

A bit of history on Beech Road ……

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It’s Sunday and so it’s left over day. Left over Sunday, 2026 One of the joys of growing old is the sheer reservoir of food memories that ...

Snaps of Chorlton No 11, a badge and a festival in 1984 not bad for one post

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An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton. Cheating really, not so much a snap more a picture of the...

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 2 Pool Fold

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Back Pool Fold is one of those twisty little thoroughfares which you think must have a rich and varied history and at sometime have offered...
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Walking down Sidcup High Street in the August of 1961

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Now it would be a full three years after this picture postcard of Sidcup High Street was sent before we settled in Eltham and a lot longe...