Monday, 17 July 2017

Pound Day Collections at the Mixed Dept at the Day School ......... stories behind the book nu 15

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An occasional series on the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War* Now I know there is a story here I just don’t...
Sunday, 16 July 2017

Another story from Tony Goulding ..... HISTORY OF A HOUSE

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I began researching the history of this house for no better reason than the fact that for a brief period during the first decade of this ce...
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Saturday, 15 July 2017

One to do today and tomorrow ..... Remembering the men of the Manchester Tramways Department and the Great War at the National Tramways Museum at Crich.

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Now I am planning to head out to Derbyshire this weekend to the National Tramways Museum at Crich. It is somewhere I have always want...

At Vico Equense

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Now war memorials should be visited and given due respect but are also about the community they serve and I think should never become just ...
Friday, 14 July 2017

Cutting up the iron ......... not a lot left of the Odeon

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Now it is pretty much a comment on the slow lingering disappearance of the Odeon that Andy Robertson is on almost daily watch for its end. ...
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Revisiting a bit of Edwardian Britain this weekend in Derbyshire and a bit of Manchester history

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Now I am planning to head out to Derbyshire this weekend to the National Tramways Museum at Crich. Martin  It is somewhere I have alw...
Thursday, 13 July 2017

As ever the devil is in the detail ......... stories of desperate people in the twin cities in 1912

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Today I spent the morning in Central Ref with a collection of The Children’s Haven which is a good way to get a sense of what a children’s ...