Friday, 13 March 2026

The Toast Rack ….. places I remember with affection

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I remember vividly the first time I saw the Hollings Building in Fallowfield.* Early morning Toast Rack, 2026 I was on one of the 40s from ...

Looking for "June" The Ladies hairdresser and Busy Bee Stores, sometime in 1930

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Looking "June" the Hairdressers on Wilbraham Road I never underestimate the power of a collection of old local adverts to off...
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Homecomings, 1945

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I think these will be the last of the pictures from Belleville for a while. Now I do have more from the collection of Mike Dufr...

Wishing you were here.......Eltham in the past, Nu 1 walking up to Shooters Hill in 1873

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An occasional series which is short on words and just lets your imagination roam. This is a section of the OS map for Kent First Edi...

"The growth of antisemitism, the rise of economic nationalism" ………. from the perspective of 1938

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I have come back to a book I first read over thirty years ago, and it seems as relevant today as it was when it was published in 1938. ...
Thursday, 12 March 2026

Derrick Lea ….. the man who drew Manchester

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Today I have been reunited with Mr. Derrek Lea who drew Manchester in the 1950s and 60s. St. Ann's Square, Manchester, circa 1950s-60s H...
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Spots of Lights: Women in the Holocaust ...... an online exhibition ..... one to view

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An important new exhition Spots of Light .* "The Holocaust was a watershed event in human history – an act of murder and violence that ...