Sunday, 17 May 2026

The lives behind the doors ….. numbers 2-14 St Andrew’s Square

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Now, it has become quite popular to take a house and tell its story over time. St Andrew's Square, 1849 Long before a certain television...

Touching home ……… two buses and heaps of Well Hall memories

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Sometimes you need nothing more than a picture to create a flood of warm memories. So here are two from my friend Chrissy Rose who like me g...
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The photograph, a house on South Meade, and a mystery

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I am looking at a picture of a group or workmen outside a house on South Meade and at first glance there doesn’t seem to be anything unusua...
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Saturday, 16 May 2026

Looking for the lost ...... one street over time in Ancoats ..... no 5 “debris and desolation”

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The story of one street in Ancoats, and the people who lived and worked there.* Ancoats residents, 1920 Now I am a little closer to b...

Lost scenes of Well Hall

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Now this will be the last for a while of pictures of Eltham trams taken from that wonderful book on Eltham and Woolwich Tramways.* But ...

The case of the missing Domestic Servants ……………..

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Now it is one of those received pieces of historical truth, that the age of the domestic servant peeked in the early years of the 20th cent...
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Friday, 15 May 2026

Looking for the lost ...... one street over time in Ancoats ..... no 4 the school by Homer Street

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The story of one street in Ancoats, and the people who lived and worked there.* Homer Street was located just south of St Andrew’s Chu...