Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Back in the 1970s watching men at work on the canal

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Earlier in the week I posted three pictures of the Castlefield area taken by David Easton. And here are two more. All were taken from...
Monday, 19 January 2015

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 52 ............ shared anniversaries

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The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* I am...

Looking out from Medlock Street

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Now here is one I like. It was taken by Andy Robertson on one of those last days in December, between Christmas and New Year when the b...
Sunday, 18 January 2015

That diary from 1918, a mystery envelope from France dated 1952 and a stories of wartime heroism

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I continue to be intrigued by the way a story can go off in any one of a number of directions none of which were what I had planned. So...
Friday, 16 January 2015

I wonder where young Connie of Chorlton cum Hardy went with her suitcase that she won in the UCP tripe competition in 1939

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I wonder where Connie Dick of Chorlton cum Hardy went with her suitcase that she won in the UCP tripe competition in 1939? Now who co...
Thursday, 15 January 2015

Telling the story of 12 young people given a better future by a Manchester charity in 1882

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Austin, one of the twelve Now here is a little of the lives of some of the young people who were given the opportunity of a better futu...

Angels in the Meadow

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Now it is always a privilege when I get a guest writer to contribute to the blog and so I was pleased when Richard agreed to write about th...