Tuesday, 21 July 2015

The story of one house in Lausanne Road number 27 .......... failing the 11 plus or Andrew and Samuel Pepys Secondary Modern School

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The story of one house in Lausanne Road over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.* Ready for the adv...
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Monday, 20 July 2015

The story of that shop at 105 Manchester Road .......... Slightman's newsagents and 50 years of sweets, cards and grumpy service

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Looking down Manchester Road in 1958 Now for those of us who were not born in Chorlton, and didn’t arrive here until the mid 1970s ther...
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Tony Goulding on Cricket clubs in Chorlton ........South West Manchester and Chorlton-cum-Hardy

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Both of Chorlton's cricket clubs present difficulties for a researcher as both have similarly named clubs in the area with which they c...
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Sunday, 19 July 2015

Walking through Levenshulme’s history part 3 ............. the railway and the Town Hall

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This is one of those images I wish I had taken. We are on the on the railway line and behind the row of houses is the old Town Hall. ...
Saturday, 18 July 2015

Another of Chorlton’s corner shops, number 2

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Once the corner shop was a familiar and important feature of most of our towns and cities acting as much as lifeline to the late shopper ...

Remembering the Battle of Britain in Southern Cemetery

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Now for many today the Battle of Britain is a piece of history, but for those of us who grew up in the 1940s and 50s it was an ever prese...
Friday, 17 July 2015

Walking through Levenshulme’s history part 2 ............. a police station, and some Victorian antique lace

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Now somewhere I should be able to find the name of the architect who designed the police station in Levenshulme and with a bit of digging...
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