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...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

The Story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy

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Now I am not one given to self promotion, but as we have just passed the second anniversary of the publication of   THE STORY OF CHORLTO...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Looking down into that hole in St Peter's Square a century and a bit later

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That hole in 2014 Now I have to thank Sally because on a day when the skies threatened to hurl down a mix of snow, sleet and rain she w...

Down at Ayres Road at another old factory

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I am back with images of some of our recent industrial landscape which I suspect will soon be gone.   We are at the Jesse Oldfield Bake...
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More from Worktown, Bolton in 1937, a new online exhibition

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I hadn’t planned on going back to Bolton and the Worktown exhibition, but the images of working class life are so compelling that I am d...
Monday, 8 December 2014

Deep in the ground in St Peter’s Square

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Now something is stirring in St Peter’s Square and I think it has bit to do with the Second City Crossing. My friend Sally told me of t...
Sunday, 7 December 2014

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 48, lino, Habitat and glazed tiles .... a century of interior design

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Leaded lights and blinds, 2004 The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families th...