Saturday, 14 February 2026

Of horses, an RAF Band and a night at the Cheetham Assembly Rooms in November 1944

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Now I wonder just how packed the Cheetham Assembly Rooms were, when the “Full RAF Rhythm Band” played on the Saturday of November 25 1944. ...

Epic of Gilgamesh: myths and heroes in ancient Mesopotamia .... on the wireless

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Now this is one I enjoyed today. Hero mastering a lion, 8th century BC It comes from the Radio 4 BBC series, You're Dead to Me * "G...

Uncovering one of our local photographers, A H Clarke .............where local history met family history

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Now I have been fascinated by Harold Clarke who was one of our local commercial photographers.* Barlow Moor Road, circa 1926 During...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 5 living through the Great War

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Our house in 2014 The centenary of the Progress Estate has long passed. Now we can lay claim to about thirty of those 100 years havin...
Friday, 13 February 2026

One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road, part 4, a bit of idle speculation on what might have been

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Gas fitting 1911 This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* ...
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Who knew Derrick A. Lea of Illustrations & Design?

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I am looking at one of eight illustrations produced by Derrick A. Lea.   My eight are all greetings cards, some of which have a Christ...

When the unthinkable had to be embraced ….. invasion 1940

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I don’t know how I would have conducted myself had I been alive in 1940, after the Fall of France, and the imminent threat of a German invas...