Tuesday, 14 July 2026

A history of Chorlton in just 20 objects number 9 ....... a legal agreement 1767

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A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a paragrah and a challenge for people to suggest some that are pe...

With Elizabeth Jane Hunt and three children in a two roomed house in Eltham in 1911

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This is the White Hart on a summer’s day in 1909, and it was going to be the subject of the story. Mrs Ann Nunn who ran the five roomed...

Learning to drive a corporation tram and other stories ….. Sidney Kirven

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Sidney Kirven worked for Manchester City Council from 1925 till he retired forty-one years later. Starting out, 1925 In that time, he saw th...

The Balloon Man … and heaps of other stories about Greater Manchester ….. tonight … at Chorlton Library

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It’s the story behind the books featuring that bestselling series … The History of Greater Manchester By Tram. The Stories By the Stops, 202...

Sun … that pervading smell of burning …. and a worsening air quality

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Today, on another hot day across the city and beyond we are still experiencing the fall out from the moors fire above Oldham.  The Mancheste...
Monday, 13 July 2026

Route 356 …. if you ever plan to travel east ……

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Well, if you ever plan to travel east, take my way, it's the highway that's the best and get your kicks on route 356. Route 356, 202...
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Fires ….. floods and the year the sun went to sleep …

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I wonder how much space in books about the summer of 2026 will be given over to the moorland fires which broke out this week. Fires over Sta...