Showing posts with label Flixton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flixton. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Walking the paths of the remembered …..... the new book from Michael Billington

›
  Mr. Billington’s new book The Churchyards & Cemeteries of Urmston, Flixton & Davyhulme, is more than just a record of gravestone, ...
Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Tomorrow in Urmston ........ Mr Billington presents ........

›
  Now long before text messages Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter, there was the picture postcard. For a small price our great grandparents, co...
Friday, 30 September 2022

“See you at 2pm this afternoon” …. stories from postcards

›
Now long before test messages Face book, WhatsApp and Twitter, there was the picture postcard. For a small price our great grandparents, cou...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022

"Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme: A Collection of Antiques and Curios" ...... the story of the book ..... today at Central Ref

›
So for anyone who has ever wondered how a history book is written or how two authors with a love of the same place and  with heaps of local ...
Thursday, 31 March 2022

Bob Potts ……. the generous historian

›
Now there will be many who are better placed than me to write about Bob Potts. Bob with his Reminiscences of a Flixton Boyhood I only really...
2 comments:
Thursday, 20 May 2021

Fun in the garden centre ……………

›
It was the week that garden centres reopened with of course suitable social distancing, masks, and the expectation that we were turning ano...
1 comment:
Sunday, 7 September 2014

Wearing Hospital Blues in Flixton Red Cross Hospital sometime during the Great War

›
Now I am back again with another of those Red Cross Hospitals from the Great War. They are a tiny bit of the history of that conflict w...
1 comment: