Showing posts with label Chorlton Radicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chorlton Radicals. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 October 2025

A Chorlton Chartist, Alexander Somerville, well almost

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I think I am close to finding my Chorlton Chartist. Or in fact two, although having said that neither was born here or lived here, bu...
Friday, 21 February 2025

The day I lost a Chorlton Chartist

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Well to be more accurate, it was more the day I invented one who never was.  It all looked so good.  In the June of 1847 Alexander Som...
Tuesday, 20 August 2024

Joseph Johnson, radical, farmer and almost a Didsbury Radical

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The Peterloo Massacre still has the power to shock and ranks alongside the Sharpville Massacre in South Africa in 1960 and the Kent State...
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Monday, 15 July 2024

Of floods and tourist attractions on the edge of Chorlton

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Today I am on the Mersey at the edge of the township.  It is 1910 and judging by the trees we are somewhere in the summer or early autum...
Sunday, 14 July 2024

Chorlton's own radical ... Thomas Walker

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This is the story of Thomas Walker one time pillar of Manchester society but also a radical politician who campaigned for the abolition of ...
Friday, 21 June 2019

Campaigning with the Anti Corn Law League in Manchester in 1845

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I am back with Alexander Somerville, radical, journalist and by his own admission at one time a police spy. That earlier campaign in St...
Thursday, 27 September 2012

Chorlton, Australia and an unpopular food tax

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It was one of those serendipity moments which brought together my old friend Alexander Somerville, his contribution to the campaign against...