Tuesday, 10 March 2026

When Crown Woods went vinyl ………………..

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I will always be grateful to Crown Woods. Being 16 and turning up at Crown Woods, 1968 It took a raw sixteen-year-old newly arrived in the S...
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Monday, 9 March 2026

Poverty…. gas masks ….. going to the flicks …. and a night in Chorlton ….. stories from Madeline Alberta Linford

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Madeline Alberta Linford was by any measure a remarkable woman. Madeline Alberta Linford, 1921 At just 22 in 1917 she was writing for the Ma...

Stories behind pictures, the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment marches through Belleville in 1945

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I like this picture not least because it captures a confused moment when lots of things seem to be going on at the same time. It is ...

The class of ’68 part 8 ……. doing drama the big way*

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Now if you went to Crown Woods in the 1960s and into the next decade, chances are you will have been part of the big block buster performanc...
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Sunday, 8 March 2026

When in Münster ….. always clock the street furniture

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Today I have inducted into my Hall of Fame collection of all things street furniture this slightly worn but fine example of a round metal ac...

Working women ......... stories for International Women's Day

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Taking a break from The Queen and Pasley 1910 It is just one of those things. The passage of time has made it certain that I will ...

The class of ’68 part 6 a beginning

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The class of '68 We were the class of ’68. Twelve young people from south east London about to leave school for the last time. ...
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