Friday, 21 August 2026

Touching our history 18th century silver from the old parish church

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It is for me one of the most exciting things about crawling around in the past and it is when you get to touch something you have writ...

At the opening of the Well Hall Odeon, May 20th 1936

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Now it would be a full 28 years after the Well Odeon was open that I first saw a film there. And of course I have no idea what the film...
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Thursday, 20 August 2026

Lost stories from Chorlton’s graveyard ………

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  I am looking at a picture of our own parish graveyard sometime in the late 1970s and it records a scene which has long gone. When the grav...

Stories from my pasta bowl ……

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Once every two decades I have a clear out of the books on the shelves. Of course, there are some I will never part with because they were in...

Visions of the future .... Orangery Lane, Eltham as it might have been

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Now I have always been fascinated by how planners have thought the future might turn out.   So here are two views of Orangery Lane...

Joseph Johnson, radical, farmer and almost a Didsbury Radical

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The Peterloo Massacre still has the power to shock and ranks alongside the Sharpville Massacre in South Africa in 1960 and the Kent State...
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Wednesday, 19 August 2026

The grim side to some of our Manchester pubs

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Now I am back with Peterloo and the dastardly actions of the Manchester Yeomanry who on August 16th, 1819, charged a peaceful crowd in St P...
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