Monday, 2 November 2026

Sunday in a Manchester Park

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Now I have always liked this painting, and it perfectly conjures up a Sunday on a warm summer’s day in a Manchester park. Writing in 19...
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When history collides with the kitchen …… three tomatoes, two chilli's and a bit of garlic ..... cooking from home no. 6

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 The challenge is a simple one. Three tomatoes, two chilli's, one garlic and some pasta, 2026 Take a handful of ingredients from the kit...

The lost Didsbury pub …………

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It was the pub which progressed from being a hotel, went on to have a connection with a snooty fox and ended its days as the Mersey Lights....
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Sunday, 1 November 2026

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton …. part 163 …. the Beech Road Six

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The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since. * I have n...

Who took away our bus office? …….

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It stood on the corner of Barlow Moor Road and Malton Avenue and had been there from 1914. Our tram and bus office, circa 1920s-30s It start...
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Manchester's first railway station ........... no.1 waiting for something to happen

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Now when Ron shared four pictures of the old railway station and warehouse on Liverpool Road, I was transported back nearly four decades. ...
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Eltham from the pen of Llwyd Roberts ....... nu 6 the White Hart 1930

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Now I am a great fan of the work of Mr Llwyd Roberts. He was during the 1930s our artist in residence and during that time produced a h...