Sunday, 29 March 2026

Memories of the Co-op, a tram journey and a live eel

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I am always on the lookout for memories of Eltham and Woolwich before today, and so I was pleased when Jean shared some of her childhood ...
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Don't get me on the subject of wool shops ...........

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Now I belong to a generation that was dragged round wool shops as a child. My mum, her friend and later my sisters all knitted and so t...
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When Chorlton was in Moss Side

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The year is 1978 and the Labour Party is defending its Moss Side seat in a byelection which was occasioned by the death of Frank Hatton who...
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Saturday, 28 March 2026

Celebrating all things history ….. today at Central Ref

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Today was one of those history days in Manchester when the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society hosted a heap of organizations...

The Lost Chorlton pictures ......... before the trend

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This is Beech Road as it was just forty years ago. Where today there is a studio, a gallery, and a clothes shop, there was a flower sho...

The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no. 39 ..... a day in the summer of 1978 at the Pleasaunce

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It will have been a day in August and having aimlessly wandered around Well Hall with a camera I washed up at the Pleasaunce . Like so ...

At Manchester Airport with Les Entremets et Canapes

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Now I first flew in 1982 and I have to admit I was 33 which these days is I guess quite old. But my dad was in his mid 60s and my mum ...
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