Friday, 9 January 2026

The way we were ............. just 56 years ago

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Now it is easy to forget that well within the living memory of most of us the City was still full of tiny workshops which wouldn’t have bee...

A silk from France .......... postcards from the Western Front

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Now I have no idea if the soldier who purchased this embroidered silk postcard was from Eltham. A message from the 8th London Regimen...

The story of one family in Chorlton ........... part 3 down on Hawthorn Lane in 1925

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Yesterday I stood on exactly the same spot where young Nellie Spencer posed for this picture in the summer of 1925 and as you do I looked ...
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Thursday, 8 January 2026

Taking the tram from Swineopolis and on to ‘the Bravest Little Street in England’ with lots in between

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Today I have started on the next book in the series, The History of Greater Manchester By Tram * So far, we have published four books which...

Net curtains, venetian blinds and that horseman on Brookburn Road .......... Chorlton in the 1920s and 30s

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More than anything it’s the detail that draws you in to this photograph of Annie  and Nelly  outside 67 Hawthorn Road in the spring of 1930...
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One bedsit …. the lost tennis courts …… and those dream homes …..

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Number One Malvern Grove is an unimposing house on the corner of Burton Road in West Didsbury. 1 Malvern Grove, house and garden 2022 And it...
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The Coal Hole Hall of Fame ………no. 6 …… one road seven covers

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Now I am impressed. Back in 2019 Karine discovered seven coal hole covers on Kirkside Road in Blackheath, and quick as a flash she photo...