Friday, 11 June 2021

Just what you find on the way to Lymm ……..

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I won’t be alone in collecting old canal warehouses. The warehouse, 2021 They were during the 18th and early 19th century at the cutting ed...

The story is simply that there is no story …….. the Victorian family

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We will all have some family pictures with faces whose names are lost in time. "Uncle Bob and Aunty Jean and mother" An...
Thursday, 10 June 2021

The Parsonage in Didsbury by Derrick A. Lea

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This is another of the drawings  of our local artist Derrick A. Lea for a while. He lived here in Chorlton from the late 1940s till ...
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Clytemnestra.... and other Greek women ....... courtesy of Natalie Haynes .... on the wireless

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  Despite a lifelong fascination for all things Roman and Greek I missed out on classical mythology. Clytemnestra It was not top of the list...
Wednesday, 9 June 2021

Adventures on Burton Road and beyond ………..the silly story

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As adventures go it was all pretty mundane and over in less than an hour. Adventures by tram, 2021 But for someone who has not ventured int...
Tuesday, 8 June 2021

Now and then ..........The Roaring Twenties ...... and post Covid Britain

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I am a great fan of the Radio 4 series the Long View, which seeks to explore comparisons with events today and similar ones in the past. En...

Better late than never …. travelling the tram to Trafford

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I am part of that small band of enthusiasts who opt to ride the new Metro lines as soon as they open. But for the obvious reasons my adventu...