Showing posts with label Marjorie Holmes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marjorie Holmes. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Marjorie Holmes, 1921-2014, a dear friend and historian of Chorlton

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Marjorie with her mother, circa 1929 on the lockups by Chorlton Green Over the years Marjorie had become a close friend, and because s...
Saturday, 19 July 2025

One place …. just 87 years apart ….. Beech Road 1935 …. 2022

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The blog doesn’t usually do then and now pictures. Beech Road, 1935 But this one which was taken by the sister of Marjorie Holmes is a favou...
Monday, 18 November 2024

A shopping list, a coal receipt and a little bit of how we lived in the winter of 1963

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Now in an age of online shopping I still like the idea of making a list and going down to the shops but I have grown lazy and have revert...
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Thursday, 16 November 2017

The story behind the Quirks of Chorlton-cum-Hardy ...... part 2 ..... my story ..... Marjorie Holmes

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Now as everyone knows the publishing event of the year is the arrival of the new book on Chorlton and its past. Marjorie circa 1966 I...
Monday, 10 March 2014

Marjorie

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Sometime in the 1960s Today will be the  the funeral of my friend Marjorie Holmes. But Marjorie would have been the first to tell me ...
Friday, 7 March 2014

Marjorie Holmes, a life remembered

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Marjorie with the History Group in the Horse & Jockey, 2009 There will be many of us here in Chorlton who will treasure fond mem...