Friday, 20 March 2026

When Eltham did it first ..... travelling in a double-decker train

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I say Eltham but strictly speaking it was the Southern Region of British Railways who came up with the idea of the double-decker train to al...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester ...... nu 66 Back Canal Street and Mr Thomas Griffiths

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Now there are no photographs of Mr Griffiths and there is nothing surprising about that. Home of Mr Griffiths marked in red on Little C...

A 'gang' of 'teenagers' ........... just before the War outside the Horse and Jockey

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Now I like the way that people continue to be generous with both their family pictures and the memories. So I was very pleased when thi...
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When history repeats itself ……. and art imitates art

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 "Never work with children or animals" is that famous one liner attributed to W.C.Fields and to this can be added never take a fam...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

The old church on the green in 1933

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This is one of my favourite pictures of the old parish church. It was taken by F. Blyth and appeared in A Short History of Chorlton-c...

What was lost is found .... the continuing story of Little Ancoats Street

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 History hasn’t been kind to Little Ancoats Street. Little Ancoats Street from Newton Street, 2019 It is one of those very narrow streets, w...
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Home thoughts from abroad nu 4 ................ catching a train and borrowing a book

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An occasional series on what I miss about the place where I grew up.* Now when you leave the place you grew up and pretty much only go...
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