Monday, 8 June 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 24 Barton Square .......... all in a name change or two

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Barton Square, 2016 Barton Square is that narrow little street that runs from Exchange Street round to St Ann Street and is domina...
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The postcard to Eltham ….. the search for Miss Williams ….. and a house on Arsenal Road

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I doubt that Auntie Edith would ever have thought that her picture postcard sent from Looe in Cornwall in July 1933 would be the subject of ...

Lost images of Whalley Range part 5 the cinema and a mystery

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Now here is a mystery I haven’t been able to solve. I am looking at what I thought was an old cinema, long since converted into other u...
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Sunday, 7 June 2026

Digging in the past: the arable farmer who's an archaeologist .... on the wireless now

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It's not the zippiest of titles but it does the biz, because this is the story of one farmer in the Vale of Yorkshire who has uncovered ...

The invitation from the Northern Quarter ....... and a mystery

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There are still a few of those odd little passages and open doors in the Northern Quarter which beckon you in with the promise of something ...
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So ……… who stole Well Hall’s Tudor mansion?

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Now I know there will be lots of people who know the story of Well Hall Pleasaunce, and the checkered history of the Tudor Barn which was on...
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Lost images of Whalley Range part 4 the Post Office opposite the Seymour, and a collection of Dinky toys

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There has been a post office on Upper Chorlton Road for over a century and for most of that century it was run by the Lloyd family. Of ...