Saturday, 29 November 2025

Walking the streets of Manchester in 1870 ......... part 2 ........Deansgate and Davenport’ Court "where scarcely a night passes but some robbery is committed”

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Now I have to say the stretch of Deansgate from St Mary’s Gate down to Victoria Street Bridge is dismal. Looking up Deansgate from Vic...
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The story of one building in Chorlton over three centuries ............. part 1 a beginning

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Number 70 in 2014 Now over three centuries a building can pretty much be many things to many people and so it is with number 70 Beech R...
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When a smelly sewer was just one too many

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Now I am pretty much sure I am going to be corrected today or at the very least attract someone who knows more about 19th century sewer ven...
Friday, 28 November 2025

Walking the streets of Manchester in 1870 ......... of privies closed courts and foul passages..... Ludgate Street

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Now Ludgate Street which runs from Rochdale Road into Angel Meadow should have fared better. New gates, 1908, a closed court There ar...
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The goat, the tent on the meadows and the mixed darts team

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I don’t remember the goat outside the Trevor or for that matter the chap who lived on the meadows in a tent, but I do know that back in the...

Of bandstands, demolished churches and a closed pub, Plumstead Common in 1915

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Now every good park should have a bandstand. They were after all the centre of many parks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whi...
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Thursday, 27 November 2025

Margery Kempe and English Mysticism .... on the wireless today

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This is one I enjoyed listening to, and of course learned a lot about the Middle Ages, the status of women in Medieval society,and the ferme...