Friday, 26 December 2025

The day Uncle Michael came for tea ......and stayed for 20 years ..... One hundred years of one house in Chorlton ....... part 158 ....

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  The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* Uncle Mi...

Boxing Day 1959 with the Swift Annual Nu 4

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This is the third of those comic annuals produced by the Hulton Press in the 1950s. Swift like its companions, Eagle, Girl and Robin ai...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 45 or so years ago …… walking the Rochdale in 1979

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A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Basi...

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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Thursday, 25 December 2025

Christmas in Chorlton, circa 1989 and a quest for a special toy

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Raphael Anyone with children born in the 1980s will remember the desperate hunt to collect the four Ninja Turtle figures. I can’t rem...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 45 or so years ago …… walking the Rochdale in 1979

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 A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Ba...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 18 ........... Christmas 1958

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* Actually it would be a...