Sunday, 4 January 2026

When the snow misery of Chorlton has competition

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  Today we had snow. The Rec, 2026 It snowed for 20 minutes.  Meanwhile in Warsaw just 10 minutes ago it was still snowing after a week and ...

One camera ….. 1965 ….. and a collection of lost scenes

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It is 61 years ago that this collection of images was taken. "Clearance in Hulme" , 1965 They cover Manchester, Stretford and ou...

A parish magazine ..... a heap of parochial news ..... and Mr. Lascelles's superior wall tiles ...... Chorlton 1903

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Now by chance and with the help of Ida Bradshaw, I am back in 1903, trawling the pages of the March edition of the St Clement’s Parish Maga...

When you could buy two nails and a key from Skillman & Sons on Woolwich High Street in the spring of 1977

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Now when I was last on Woolwich High Street number 108 was an empty shop, and despite a coat of black paint the front still displayed the...
Saturday, 3 January 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester ......... nu 93 that chunk of Oxford Road

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Now, I know we haven’t lost Oxford Road, but bits of it have been so transformed that it is as if it never existed. The stretch in ques...

Mr and Mrs Heywood’s fine house ...... pushing back the history of Edge Lane

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Looking towards Chorlton, with Heywood's house on our left, 1914 There will be someone I know who has the answer to the mystery of...

The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no.6 working the river

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A short series on the pictures of Eltham and Woolwich in 1978. For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the mid...
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