Thursday, 3 September 2026

What did the Norman’s Ever do for Us? ….. all day on the wireless today

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Well, they were either a marauding band of super gangsters who stole a country, or just another group who crossed the seas to come, settle a...

On Shooters Hill ………………… with We Anchor in Hope

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Now I have no memory of the pub We Anchor in Hope. But then when I roamed over the woods and down Shooter’s Hill and on to Welling, I w...
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It happened here in Chorlton and also in Didsbury .............. National Baby Week .... July 1917

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J ust a century ago a crowd assembled on the Rec opposite our house on Beech Road and listened to Mrs Jane Redford, Mr Peach and Miss Place...

Who moved that bus stop? …………. and other challenges to my memory ….Didsbury …. 1967

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It started with a conversation with my friend Barbarella about the lost shops of Didsbury, and in particular, the stretch from M&S to t...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Will the real William Frank please step forward ……..

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Now for a decade and more I have been hunting for Mr. William Frank who gave his name to two small streets off Great Marlborough Street in C...

A shop before its time and a family search abandoned

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It was one of those shops which with its quirky concept and interesting objects should have done well on Beech Road. Take an everyday ...
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Back on Pound Place a long time before now

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Pound Place was always somewhere I tended to walk past and looking down it now I can’t even remember what stood on the site of the Counci...