Showing posts with label Didsbury in the 1920s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Didsbury in the 1920s. Show all posts
Saturday, 29 March 2025

A history of Didsbury in just 20 objects ... number 14 ……. a very special memorial

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The story of Didsbury in just twenty objects, chosen at random and delivered in a paragraph or more. There are a number of war memorial...
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Saturday, 20 May 2023

The Garden Entrance to the City ……. At Parrs Wood in 1928

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Now I have always been fascinated by that patch of land, where the Kingsway meets Wilmlsow Road. The park in 2015 It is a small plot ...
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Thursday, 8 April 2021

One of the last photographs from the Wesleyan College in Didsbury ......... 1940

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The year of 1940 Now this is one of those little bits of history which could so easily have been lost forever. We are looking at a ph...
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Thursday, 23 April 2020

Back on Hardman Street looking at Sailor Salmon in 1923

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Now I couldn’t resist revisiting Hardman Street which ran from Wilmslow Road down to William Street. It is now part of School Lane and ...
Monday, 13 April 2020

The 77 remembered in West Didsbury

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It is a simple war memorial, consisting of just a column topped with a cross and the names of 77 men who died in the Great War. It st...
Friday, 14 February 2020

On Hardman Street, in Didsbury on March 12th 1924 reading the adverts

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Hardman Street, March 12th 1924 We are on Hardman Street in the March of 1924 and for the discerning reader of adverts it has got the l...
Monday, 10 February 2020

Travels through the village ………… part 2

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The idea is very simple, select almost the same spot along Wilmslow Road through the village, and throw in a series of picture post cards...
Thursday, 28 April 2016

A building called the Towers, the Ship Canal and a certain animation company

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The Towers is a building with a lot of history. It was built between 1868 and 1872 by John Taylor who founded the Manchester Gu...