Monday, 15 June 2026

Pushing water up a hill …… looking for Mr. Mills in 1851

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  Sometimes you know you are on a loser, but a mix of curiosity and a bit of stubbornness allied to the sheer fascination of digging deep in...
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Back at the Imperial Cinema on Chorlton Road

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The Imperial in 1980 I am back with the old Imperial Cinema on Chorlton Road with some of Andy Robertson’s pictures. Like so many of ...

A bit more of the “other side” of London life in 1851

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"The first rats I caught was when I was about nine years of age. I ketched them an Mr Strickland’s a large cow keeper, in Little Alban...
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Sunday, 14 June 2026

All you ever wanted to know about how we got our power across Greenwich and Woolwich

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  I am a great admirer of Mary Mills and her work which over the years has revealed the industrial archaeology of where I grew up. Entitled ...
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Travels with Radio 4 …..

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I can think of no better reflection on David Hockney’s painting “A Bigger Splash” than Paddy O’Connel’s take on the picture and the life of ...

Piffy on a rock bun …………… and other travels with my past

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Now I have always taken those sayings of my youth for granted, and very rarely pondered on their origins or how they have survived from chi...
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The skip ……. a man with a van …… and tales of recycling ….. with a nod to the dustman, shore man and sewer hunters

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  There is a lot to be said for the recycling man with his van. I say man, but there is more than one, and as like as not it will be a woman...