Showing posts with label Whalley Range in the 2000s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Whalley Range in the 2000s. Show all posts
Monday, 15 June 2026

Back at the Imperial Cinema on Chorlton Road

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The Imperial in 1980 I am back with the old Imperial Cinema on Chorlton Road with some of Andy Robertson’s pictures. Like so many of ...
Saturday, 22 July 2023

Welcome back Wellfield ….. that impressive and historic house in Whalley Range

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History hasn’t been kind to that grand old house at the end of Upper Chorlton Road close to the former Whalley Hotel. Wellfield, 2023 Once i...
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Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Walking in Alexandra Park in the November of 2014 part 2

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The thing about Alexandra Park is that it looks good pretty much all the year round and so here are a series of pictures from Andy Robert...
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Tuesday, 15 November 2022

Walking in Alexandra Park in the November of 2014 part 1

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The thing about Alexandra Park is that it looks good pretty much all the year round and so here are a series of pictures from Andy Robert...
Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Uncovering a bit of Whalley Range history …..

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Coming out into the daylight after a very long time. Stone setts on Demesne Road. Copland who took the picture added "I imag...
Monday, 22 June 2020

The Imperial Picture House, Whalley Range

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The Imperial on Chorlton Road, 1961 Now I am of that generation who went to the cinema before split screens, multi studios and the one ...
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Thursday, 31 January 2019

Rediscovering the Whalley Hotel

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Everyone likes a Mary Celeste story. * Usually it involves a place in perfect condition which appears to be abandoned, with everything ...
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Thursday, 14 June 2018

Looking for clues ...... that house in Whalley Range

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Now I am back with that house on Wellington Road in Whalley Range.* It was built in 1874, and over its 144 years was home to salesmen,...
Monday, 4 June 2018

That house in Whalley Range and the grander one in Chorlton, which was Oak Bank and became Oakley

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Doenberg today Doenberg is that fine old house on Wood Road just where it joins College Road. It was built in 1896 by Robert Rohlede...
Wednesday, 14 March 2018

When are you going to write about the Creameries on Wilbraham Road?

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2014 The question arose during a conversation last week. As it turned out I had  already done so, first in 2012 and then again in the...
Tuesday, 13 March 2018

For the Friends of Range Road ....... and the Manchester Carriage and Tramway Company

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It’s been almost a year since I wrote about the Manchester Carriage and Tramway Company and their depot down in Whalley Range.* And I ...
Wednesday, 14 February 2018

What we inherit and what we pass on ..... those two houses on Upper Chorlton Road

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Now I know it is not an original observation that the homes we occupy are places that we hold in trust and that sooner or later we will pas...
Monday, 7 August 2017

Coming out of the shadows ........ those two houses on Upper Chorlton Road

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I think Mrs Emma Hyde and Mr John Windsor would applaud the way their two homes on Upper Chorlton Road have been treated. Well over a c...
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Wednesday, 10 May 2017

198 Upper Chorlton Road ......... a house reborn

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Tired and in need of some care, 2016 Now there will be those who think I might just have gone over the top with the title but not so....
Monday, 16 May 2016

Be careful not to miss the changes ............... down on Withington Road in Whalley Range

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Now you ignore changing Whalley Range at your peril. By which I mean like any place you live and take for granted it is often too easy ...
Friday, 6 May 2016

The Local Elections Results 2016 Whalley Range

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