Thursday, 17 August 2017

Looking for a building still standing after half a century and a bit

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Now there are lots of upsides of being retired, ranging from not having to face a packed rush hour tram to no longer having to be told what...
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Wednesday, 16 August 2017

The Friends of Dagnal Avenue

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I am back with another picture from the collection of Frank Tomlin. Frank lived on Dagnal Avenue which is that long road that runs down...
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Chorlton A hotbed of Amateur Football .... a story by David Brundrit

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In the 1800's rugby was the game played and one of the oldest clubs was Manchester FC founded in 1866 and whose ground was on Withingto...
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Salford People through the camera of Phil Portus ......Sandra Opoku & Michelle Darby

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In the 1970s Phil Portus set out to record     Salford people. He writes, Sandra,  as a child,  lived in a large terraced house on S...
Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Stories of the Crescent in Salford yet to be told

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Now I bet there will be plenty of stories about the Crescent. Not that Mr Frederick Engels or Mr Marx will be calling me with their tal...
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When the story is the address ........ postcards from Oldham during the Great War

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Now for some this postcard offers up little in the way of a story. Silk cards like this one were common both during and after the Gre...

More from Tony Goulding ......The Art Heritage of Chorlton-cum-Hardy

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Normally I don’t return to previous posts; however I am happy to do so in this instance.  Following a request from a descendant I was fur...