Monday, 18 May 2026

A Didsbury picture ……. an 1885 sales catalogue ….. and the story of Johnson, Clapham & Morris .... makers of all things galvanized iron

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Now, I remain fascinated at the route which took me from a framed page of a sales catalogue on a wall in a house in Didsbury via a shop in ...

What did you find in the cellar of Hough End Hall in the summer of 1965?

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If you are of a certain age you will probably remember playing in Hough End Hall. Of course we are talking about the 1960s when the pla...

Trolleybus 698 Woolwich-Bexleyheath ….. now that’s a zippy title

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Now I have my old friend Richard Woods to thank for igniting memories of trolley buses.  Tolleybus no. 1768, 2014 He sent over a link to a t...
Sunday, 17 May 2026

The lives behind the doors ….. numbers 2-14 St Andrew’s Square

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Now, it has become quite popular to take a house and tell its story over time. St Andrew's Square, 1849 Long before a certain television...

Touching home ……… two buses and heaps of Well Hall memories

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Sometimes you need nothing more than a picture to create a flood of warm memories. So here are two from my friend Chrissy Rose who like me g...
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The photograph, a house on South Meade, and a mystery

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I am looking at a picture of a group or workmen outside a house on South Meade and at first glance there doesn’t seem to be anything unusua...
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Saturday, 16 May 2026

Looking for the lost ...... one street over time in Ancoats ..... no 5 “debris and desolation”

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The story of one street in Ancoats, and the people who lived and worked there.* Ancoats residents, 1920 Now I am a little closer to b...