Showing posts with label The story of a garage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The story of a garage. Show all posts
Monday, 2 February 2026

Chorlton’s first cinema, a Molotov cocktail and a shed load of new stories

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The story of Chorlton has just started a new chapter and it is all down to a phone call from Mr Hollinworth. We all know that you can nev...
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Thursday, 9 April 2015

On Wilbraham Road with a couple of litres of diesel, a bag of crisps and the ghost of Tom Mix, the Whips and garages dating back to the 1960s

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It is one of those things that within a few years no one will ever remember the history of the site that now boasts Morrison’s new petrol ...
Friday, 3 April 2015

A year and a bit of the story of that petrol station on Wilbraham Road

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I t began back in March of last year with a picture of that closed petrol station on Wilbraham Road, became a series of stories featuring ...
Monday, 16 March 2015

Coming soon that new petrol station on Wilbraham Road

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Now we must surely be entering almost the end of that story of the garage on Wilbraham Road which Andy Robertson has been recording for t...
Sunday, 8 March 2015

Possibly almost the end of the story of that garage on Wilbraham Road

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This may well be one of the last pictures posted in the story of that garage on Wilbraham Road and so Andy Robertson will soon sign off ...
Saturday, 28 February 2015

Watching that garage on Wilbraham Road move closer to completion

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Now anyone who has been following the progress of that garage on the corner of Wilbraham and Buckingham Roads will like me be pleased that ...
Monday, 2 February 2015

What is stirring on Wilbraham Road ........ home to our first cinema?

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Now if local history is about anything it is in part about recording the changes to where we live no matter how small . So here is anot...
Sunday, 4 January 2015

The mystery of the hole in the ground on Wilbraham Road, and the continuing story of a garage

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Well the holidays are over and we are back with that garage on Wilbraham Road. It is a place I have been revisiting every so often co...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

That hole on Wilbraham Road ............the story of one garage in Chorlton

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Now I do like the way stories begin to take shape and take off. So it is with the old garage on the corner of Wilbraham and Buckingham...
Tuesday, 25 November 2014

A little mystery down at the corner of Wilbraham and Buckingham Roads

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There has been a petrol station on the corner of Wilbraham Road and Buckingham Road for a long time and now it’s gone , but in the fullness...
Thursday, 3 July 2014

The old cinema by the metro stop and a closed petrol station

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Wilbraham Road and a thriving cinema in 1909 There will be no one now still alive who went to the old Pavilion cinema on the corner of ...