Thursday, 5 September 2013

The swimming baths have to be one of the great municipal investments. Listen to their history today with Chorlton History Group

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Victoria Baths, 1905 The swimming baths have to be one of the great municipal investments. They were relatively cheap, and many doubl...
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The picture which stubbornly refuses to give up its story, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the 1920s

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We all have them in the family collection of pictures. They are those with no name, or date or any clue as to where they were taken or ...
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Didsbury in the summer of 1959 and an exciting new project

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It is a familiar enough scene. The War Memorial and Llibrary in 1959 We are looking across at the Library and War Memorial in Didsbur...
Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Discovering who I am, debates around the use of archives and British Home Children

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One of the homes run by the charity Now it is a while since I featured the blog of the Together Trust which is the successor to the old...

On stumbling across St Ann's Church from the alley

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Now what I like about this picture is that it is unusual. Most images of St Ann’s Church are taken from the square, bit for some reason...
Monday, 2 September 2013

A rant, a hotel in the city centre and a lesson on where not to stay

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What constitutes good value for a stay in an 18th century hotel in a historic city in the south west? Now this is not to be a rant by t...
Sunday, 1 September 2013

A lesson in conservation ......the Inn in the Cornish valley

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We had been travelling around the southernmost bits of Cornwall. Wide sandy beaches, rough jagged cliffs and the expanse of the sea ...