Showing posts with label Chorlton at Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chorlton at Christmas. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 December 2025

Christmas in Chorlton, circa 1989 and a quest for a special toy

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Raphael Anyone with children born in the 1980s will remember the desperate hunt to collect the four Ninja Turtle figures. I can’t rem...
Friday, 19 December 2025

A Christmas sometime between 1955 and 61

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I don’t usually do nostalgia, but this week is an exception. So for all those who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s here is a selection of...
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Monday, 15 December 2025

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton ....... part 157 ..... old traditions …. new customs ..... and a challenge to Brexit

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The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* Nougat, an...
Friday, 13 December 2024

Christmas greetings from the beginning of the last century

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Christmas greetings from the beginning of the last century Picture; from the collection of Rita Bishop, courtesy of David Bisho...
Tuesday, 19 December 2023

A Chorlton history story in the making .............

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Now here is a bit of the present which will quickly become another little part of our history. The books arrive, 2023 Today the crowd funded...
Monday, 18 December 2023

Sending a wartime Chrsitmas card

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Buying Christmas cards is a very personal thing. I always get mine from Oxfam and then try to do that juggling act of picking ones I th...
Saturday, 16 December 2023

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton ....... part 149 …..the end of a Christmas tradition …….and a big thankyou Tony Adams

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The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* Christmas...
Sunday, 10 December 2023

Looking for the first carol singer in Chorlton-cum-Hardy

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As titles go it is a bit daft even for a history blog, and I guess ranks with Carol Singer bites dog and the carol singers who started singi...
Monday, 26 December 2022

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton ....... part 140 ….. 46 Christmases on Beech Road

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The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* Christm...
Thursday, 31 December 2020

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton …. part 118 ......... the Christmas of 2020

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The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since. * This wil...
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Thursday, 24 December 2020

Beech Road …… waiting for Christmas Eve

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Friday December 25th just before 8am Location; Chorlton-cum-Hardy Pictures, Beech Road, on Christmas Eve, 2020, from the collection of Andre...
Friday, 20 November 2020

The first tree of Christmas ..........

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I have no doubt there will be others on display, but this was the first I saw. Yesterday on Beech Road. Location; Chorlton Picture; The firs...
Friday, 20 December 2019

It’s all in the tradition ......... 30 and a bit years of Christmas trees from A J Adams

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Now the blog doesn’t do adverts, never has, never will, so this is less a trade promotion and more just a thank you to Tony and his staff i...
Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Shop fronts I have known …………… Beech Road

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An occasional series recording the changing face of the art of dressing a shop for Christmas. Now, the idea is obvious, but there is a ...
Friday, 8 November 2019

On discovering the first festive tree of Christmas …. on Beech Road

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Now I am old enough to remember the race to be the first correspondent to write into the Times, with that simple announcement that they “ha...
Saturday, 16 December 2017

More Victorian Christmas Cards

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From the collection of Tony Walker
Thursday, 14 December 2017

Victorian Christmas Cards

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From the collection of Tony Walker
Friday, 20 December 2013

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 37 Christmas

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The house in 1974 The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived ...
Sunday, 8 December 2013

All you ever wanted to know about Chorlton and Christmas but never knew you who to ask ...... booked for two nights at the Post Box Cafe

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Well it began as a Christmas Talk and was so popular we have decided to run a second night. This is the Christmas talk at the Post Box ...