Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Travelling on the railway in 1830

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I wish I could  have rattled along on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway sometime in the 1830s. But I can't so instead I will offe...

Passing the parish church one Sunday in November and remembering Bradshaw's guide

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Now I like Ryan’s picture of Eltham Church which got me thinking about how a modern guide book would describe it. Back in 1861 Bradshaw...

Marjorie Holmes, 1921-2014, a dear friend and historian of Chorlton

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Marjorie with her mother, circa 1929 on the lockups by Chorlton Green Over the years Marjorie had become a close friend, and because s...
Monday, 20 April 2026

Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past ...... on the wireless today

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I am a great fan of Radio 4's Start the Week which is one of those talking programmes the BBC excels at and this one was no exception. ...

Historians of Chorlton ............ Thomas Ellwood

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There have been many who have written about the history of Chorlton. Almost all of them draw on twenty-five articles written in the wi...
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Steam fun ……….. London Road ……..

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This is another one of my all-time favourites from Eddie Johnson’s book on Manchester Railway Termini.* Until recently I had not got round t...

The history of Eltham in just 20 objects ........Nu 10 the drainhole cover ..... from Tricia

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The challenge is to write a history of Eltham in just 20 objects which are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at random....