Tuesday, 1 July 2025

A Viking hoard of treasure .....two detectorists ..... and a story .... Fool's Gold on the wireless now

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  Now it's more than a story of Viking hidden treasure, two detectorists who fail to report the find, and a clue to a period of our hist...

That mystery house on Beech Road ........

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Now number 121 Beech Road vanished a long time ago. Hunts Croft, circa, 1960s It was one of our more elegant early 19th century prope...
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The lost canal ….Bert’s Café …. and the Coach and Horses ….. views across Minishull Street fifty years ago

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This was one of my familiar views of the Manchester I knew in the 1970s. Looking towards Minishull Street, 1979 To my left was the tower blo...

Passing the bridges ………

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It will have been in 1979, and I guess it was sometime in the summer and on a whim, I took a trip on the River. Now if you were born and gre...
Monday, 30 June 2025

Lost in memories in Albert Square …..

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How easy it is to find and post images of Manchester before now. But how much better to post an image you took and share it along with the m...
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Chorlton Row, a road half as old as time

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You have to get up early to see Beech Road at its best, preferably on a spring or summer morning when there is no traffic on the road. ...

Memories of that other Thames ……

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 I don’t know if cargo ships still berth along my bit of the River at Greenwich. But someone will know, and I hope will tell me. I left Lond...