Friday, 9 October 2026

Miss Earlsome .... her romantic Valentine ..... and a fine row of houses ..... Oxford Street 1819

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 I am a romantic and always have been, so the sight of a 19th century Valentine letter was all I needed to start a story. That romantic poem...

Beech Road on Jubilee day May 6 1935

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What I like about this picture of Beech Road in May 1935 is that it wasn’t taken by a professional but by someone I know.  Marjorie Ho...

Sandcastles and deck chairs beside the River Thames at the Tower of London

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It is one of those odd things about growing old that you do begin to question your own memories. I was telling a friend about building ...

Stories of demolition part 2 ……. Manchester 1971

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Sometimes you come across a picture which is not  just a record of an event, but offers up so much more. So here we are with an unnamed buil...
Thursday, 8 October 2026

Beech Road in the summer of 1932

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We are on Beech Road in the summer of 1932.   Judging by the shadows and the activity it must be sometime in the morning. The...

Megalosaurus … the dinosaur with a story … today on the wireless

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Who doesn’t like dinosaurs? Or perhaps less like and more fascinated. All of which is a lead into this week’s In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 whi...

Travels with a box of toffees to the Tower of London and beyond

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The quality of the images is a bit iffy, but they perfectly recreate the London I knew when I was growing up. London Bridge , 1956 Th...