Sunday, 20 September 2026

Fair sits the day for a walk through Chorlton's past at 2pm today*

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There is still time to get your tickets for this history walk through our collective past. The Narnia Lampost, 2024 It's a stroll down B...

OK you can come in now....Chorlton gets its first proper municipal Library

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Opening the library in 1914 I say first proper municipal library because we had had a few private ones and a temporary one but this bui...
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A sightseeing trip to Woolwich and those old wooden prison hulks with their chained convicts

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Now I had completely forgotten about those old 18th century prison hulks moored at Woolwich and also of the excellent little book by Mr R...

The forgotten story ………. a little bit of squatter history in Alexandra Park

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Now the story of how the military buildings in Alexandra Park were taken over by squatters in 1946 has faded from memory. The squatter ...
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Saturday, 19 September 2026

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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