Wednesday, 31 December 2025

The Art of New Year ……..

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So, given that New Year’s Eve only happens once a year you only get one stab of featuring the art that said goodbye to the old year. Now I t...

Celebrating New Year ….. with turnips ….. a carrot …..Mr. Wilding ….. and a bit of humour

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After 89 years I doubt I will turn up much on The Chorlton-cum-Hardy Amateur Gardeners’. The invitation to New Year fun, 1936 But then until...

The grimy ones ........ our River

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Now here is another of those short series taken from the family archive. All were taken around 1979 and offer up scenes of the River wh...

A Manchester first ……… John Edward Sutton .... first Labour Councillor and Manchester MP

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John Edward Sutton deserves to be remembered . John Edward Sutton, MP He was the first Labour candidate to be elected to the Manchester City...
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Tuesday, 30 December 2025

Mr. Roger Hall …. last known in British Columbia has been found ….

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It is the sort of discovery which would gladden the heart of anyone engaged in family history. The Griffth farmhouse, New Brunswick, 2008 ...

Waiting for that fast service to Central ................ standing on the platform at Chorlton-cum-Hardy railway station

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Now I am part of that generation that grew up with steam locomotives. And I don’t mean those special heritage steam trains I mean the f...

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 45 or so years ago …… walking the Rochdale in 1979

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A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Basi...