Wednesday, 7 January 2026

The story of one family in Chorlton ........... Jim and Annie McLoughlin

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This is young Annie Magee aged fifteen in 1923 outside her home on what is now Ivy Green Road. Miss Annie Magee in 1923 It comes from ...

Visions of a future ……. Hulme ……. 1965

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Location; Hulme Picture; Visions of a future, Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection  ...

Looking for the Blackheath Hospital ........... and finding it

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Now I thought I had found Blackheath Hospital, but alas it is not so. Nurses, Starting, Green, Leadbetter & Lines, May 1931 For while th...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2026

The Penny -a-Week Fund …… the Ashton-Under-Lyne Committee .... and a neglected history book

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Now the Tiger Kills, was one of the books I bought from Bryan the Book on Beech Road sometime in the 1980s. It was already almost 40 years o...

As others see us ......... Well Hall in the summer of 1966 by Ian Nairn

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The thing about guide books is that they date so quickly.   But that can be what makes them so intriguing and that pretty much sums up ...

A prize for Park Brow Farm in Chorlton

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Here is a little bit of our history which often gets over looked. In 1916 Park Brow Farm was awarded a certificate of Merit at the Manch...
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That corner shop in 1969 ……………

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Now, leaving aside any poor jokes about that virus and the soft drinks company, there is much in this picture that tells a story of how w...