Tuesday, 19 May 2026

Chorlton Office, a pair of boots and a bus stop ................

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This is one of my favourite pictures of Chorlton in the 1960s which comes from  George Cieslik’s collection. I do like those images of ...
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A little bit of Woolwich ........ from Manchester

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Now I like the way a picture of a place I remember so well from my youth just pops into my in tray. And so it is with this fine photogr...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ...................... nu 1 St Simon Street, a wireless and sixty earth rods

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Now you can still walk along St Simon Street but it no longer follows the route that it did when it led from Blackfriars Street to the Anac...
Monday, 18 May 2026

Losing another Chorlton ghost sign …….

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I rather think if I go back later this afternoon this ghost sign will have gone. It was uncovered as work progresses on what was “Close” , t...

A Didsbury picture ……. an 1885 sales catalogue ….. and the story of Johnson, Clapham & Morris .... makers of all things galvanized iron

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Now, I remain fascinated at the route which took me from a framed page of a sales catalogue on a wall in a house in Didsbury via a shop in ...

What did you find in the cellar of Hough End Hall in the summer of 1965?

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If you are of a certain age you will probably remember playing in Hough End Hall. Of course we are talking about the 1960s when the pla...

Trolleybus 698 Woolwich-Bexleyheath ….. now that’s a zippy title

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Now I have my old friend Richard Woods to thank for igniting memories of trolley buses.  Tolleybus no. 1768, 2014 He sent over a link to a t...