Showing posts with label Kemp's Corner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kemp's Corner. Show all posts
Wednesday, 21 May 2025

So no more will I meet you at Kemps’ Corner

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One of Chorlton best known landmarks .... rebuilt to form an extension to a bank Kemp’s Corner is no more and lives only in the memor...
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Monday, 14 April 2025

On a day in 1910 at Kemp's Corner

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Kemp's Corner, 1910 I am in Chorlton on a sunny day in the summer of 1910 and today I just want to reflect on what you could hav...
Saturday, 6 April 2024

Pictures from a Chorlton Bus ..... no 1 ... Kemp's Corner and other nostalgic moments

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The top deck of a Chorlton bus must be a pretty neat way of seeing the world below. The 85, 2024 And when it is the same bus at about the sa...
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Monday, 9 August 2021

When there were still four banks on Bank Square

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I can’t be exactly sure of the date of the picture, but I know it must be sometime around the late 1990s. Now I can be pretty sure of t...
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Sunday, 16 February 2020

Another instalment in the fascinating story of Harry Kemp

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Harry Kemp was one of those local figures who has faded somewhat from Chorlton’s history, and that is a shame. Kemp's Corner, circa...
Tuesday, 20 August 2019

Tragic Traffic Accident at “Kemp’s Corner” 27th September 1958 .... a story from Tony Goulding

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Kemp's Corner, 1960 This photograph (A.E.Landers m18413 -1960) from the Manchester Archives Local Images Collection carries a very ...
Friday, 11 May 2018

Kemp’s Corner .... the Four Banks and Bank Square ....... names that speak of our history

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The news that the RBS Bank in Chorlton is to close in August is sad news and more so because according to press reports, the closure of 162...