Friday, 19 April 2019

A Mancunian pilot and plane from the Great War ….. stories of porcelain

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We are a full century and a bit on from the Great War, and I find it remarkable that so much of the ephemera from that conflict has survi...
Thursday, 18 April 2019

A bit of outrageous self promotion

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Now everyone should have their fifteen minutes of fame …………. And Emilka gave me mine. On a visit to the British Library in London and w...

Goodbye to that College in Didsbury part 11 ....... and to some of those buildings soon to vanish

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I didn’t expect to return to stories of Didsbury College, written back in 2015. The Drama Hall After all it was eight months ago when...

A Chorlton Chartist, co-operative ventures and a wish which almost came true

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Finding a Chorlton Chartist is not an obsession, although I do have to admit it does flirt into my mind quite regularly. During the la...
Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Looking out from the Crescents some time before now

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The caption just says Salford from the Crescent and is undated. But the artist was William Westall who was born in 1784 and died in 185...
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Goodbye to that College in Didsbury part 12 ....... passing the lodge without a second thought

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Now the thing about lodge houses even those that belong to posh mansions is that most people just ignore them. In the old days distingu...
Tuesday, 16 April 2019

A chance conversation and a discovery ........ a five minute encounter on the bus

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Now I know that Manchester is a cosmopolitan city but what are the chances that a casual conversation with a stranger on the bus should rev...