Monday, 14 April 2014

Standing in a less crowded Exchange Square

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Now I am on a roll and here is another in the new series photographs using big glass windows and reflections . That said this is also o...
Sunday, 13 April 2014

Memories of a Chorlton childhood in the 1930s, part two a timetable, a first report and much more

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An occasional series where people who lived in Chorlton describe the place they knew. Jeanne aged 21 Jeanne Herring started at  Whall...

Of bugs and builders and a little more about number 84 Chorlton Road

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Number 84 Chorlton Road in 2014 I am always drawn to how old buildings reveal their secrets just by looking at their physical appearanc...
Saturday, 12 April 2014

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 42, changes

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Christmas 1988 The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived he...

Out on Flixton Road catching the changes in retailing

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Now the blog knows no boundaries and nor for that matter does Andy Robertson who was out on Flixton Road earlier last month and decided t...
Friday, 11 April 2014

Remembering the Great War ......... the exhibition at Southern Cemetery

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Over the next few months many of us will visit museums and art galleries which will be remembering the Great War. Most will be offer...

Restoring a bit of our historic landscape

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I am a great fan of those cast iron and glass canopies which linger on in some of our old shopping parades.  One of these is the one be...