Wednesday, 5 August 2026

A Chorlton secret ……. the demolished cinema …….. and Mr. Shaw’s superior garage

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 Unless you were in the know I doubt you would ever have realized that behind the shops on Barlow Moor Road between the former Co-op and Cor...
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Snaps of Chorlton No 11, a badge and a festival in 1984 not bad for one post

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An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton. Cheating really, not so much a snap more a picture of the...

Looking for our memorial to Manchester’s Cholera deaths

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Now I may well have missed it, but I don’t think we have a memorial to those who perished in the great Cholera outbreak of 1832. The Ch...
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On Shooters Hill remembering the Great War at Christ Church

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I am back on Shooters Hill in the company of Darrel Spurgeon's guide book.* It is a book I keep returning to because it contains so...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2026

Walkng the streets of Manchester in 1830 in the company of J. T. Slugg and in search of Antonio Preduzzi.

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St Ann's Church, 1793 I am on the streets of Manchester in the early 1830s in the company of J T Slugg* and in search of Antonio P...
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A chance photograph, some demolished houses, a lost Chorlton road and a lesson in always carrying a camera

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It is one of those curious things that it is often the most recent history that goes unrecorded. I must have walked down Ransfield Roa...
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On Shooters Hill with Mrs Craven and George Field in the June of 1841

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I have decided to head north of Well Hall to Shooters Hill in search of a story.  Back in the 1830s and 40s, it was a mixed bunch of th...
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