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Showing posts with label Claude Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Claude Road. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 June 2026

Claude Road and a clue to the vanished Beech House

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The date on this postcard of Claude Road is 1915 but the scene must be earlier. On the surface it seems an unremarkable image. I...
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Thursday, 28 May 2026

Scenes from a lost Chorlton, Claude Road in 1964

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Now the old petrol pump stood at the point where Claude Road does a right turn before meeting Reynard Road and running off into the Ville...
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Thursday, 7 May 2026

That lost magical Chorlton playground ... a man called Gabbott .... and the Curnon Steam Meter

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 For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by a patch of land just a little to the north of Chorlton Brook. That assemblage of ol...
Thursday, 20 June 2024

One of the bits of Chorlton lost forever ...... Claude Road

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Now, nature and entrepreneurs abhor empty spaces, and so sometime in the early 20th century someone filled that bit of open land at the poi...
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Monday, 13 April 2020

Pictures from a backroom, on a moment of self-isolation ..... the view with the poem

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Now Linda was the first contributor to the series, and carried away by the bright sunshine on Saturday, she took this picture of Cladude Ro...
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