Tuesday, 4 November 2025

When history became about all of us ...... on the wireless today

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If you went to school in the 1950s history lessons were almost always about the great and the good, the rich and the clever, and just maybe ...

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 15 a barrage balloon

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Continuing the story of Chorlton in just a paragraph. They are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at random. It was ...

Walks I wish I could have taken, ...... up Liverpool Road towards Deansgate in the spring of 1849

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The station and staiton master's house We are on Liverpool Road just a little under twenty years after the opening of the Manches...
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Wishing you well ........... postcards from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham for the summer ..... nu 4 The Royal Observatory

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A short series with few words looking at the postcards we sent from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham. Now as a kid I often took myself of...
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Monday, 3 November 2025

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 12 ....... an engraved silver cup 1917

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Continuing the  story of Chorlton in just a paragraph. They are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at random. Prese...

A bit of co-operative history in Didsbury and a picture of how we shopped in 1935

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It is easy to miss the stone with its initials M&S high up on the building which includes Expo Lounge, and  Holland &Barrett. T...
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In search of an adventure out of Peckham ............. foot tunnels and a strange find

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Now the thing about adventures is that there should be no rules, no preplanning and just an optimistic expectation that it will all turn ou...
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