Thursday, 15 October 2026

Lost along the River … somewhere beyond Ballast ......

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Fifty-five years ago, I regularly walked along the River from the food factory I worked at to the Cutty Sark pub. The silos, a dog and that ...

Cleaning the brass and making the beds in Chorlton ........ with Miss Edith Ashworth

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 I wonder what Edith Ashworth made of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. She had been born in Northenden in 1880, and lived with her father and mother and ...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 10........... from bread and dripping to Museli

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This is the continuing story  of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* Now I suspect pr...

The night watchman............ out on the streets of Manchester in 1896

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Once the night watchman would have been a familiar sight sitting beside his hut keeping warm at the brazier and maintaining a solitary vi...
Wednesday, 14 October 2026

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 9........... bold new designs and a bit of Formica

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* I often wonder wha...
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Secrets from a Chorlton grave yard ……

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I am looking at the remains of a clay pipe dating from around 1831 . King William lV pipe 1831-37 I can be fairly confident of that date bec...

On the streets of Manchester, polishing shoes, selling food and offering up fun balloons

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It is one of those things about city life that there is always someone who will sell you almost anything. Just over a hundred years ago...
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