Friday, 17 December 2021

A Christmas Carol ...."God Bless Mr. Dickens" ... on the wireless today

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Now I think you are either a Christmas or New Year person, and I am a Christmas person. Marley's Ghost. Ebenezer Scrooge visited by a gh...

Waiting for the band to play ..... Middleton

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Now it's been a year since I visited the story of the bandstand , and so I was pleased when Tony Goulding sent this one over. Tony is a ...
Thursday, 16 December 2021

Painting Italy .......... goodbye to Ciao

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The first time I ate at Ciao’s I was hooked. We were in the main railway station in Rome and against my better judgement Tina suggested...
Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Remembering Joseph Thomas from Chorlton who died in the Great War

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The replica, circa 1920s I wonder just how many of these small replicas of the Cenotaph still exist. They would have been made in...
Tuesday, 14 December 2021

So what tram would take me to the Longsight loco shed in 1947?

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  Now, I remain in awe of those people who turn their interest into something which can be shared with others. And today I am looking at “Th...
Monday, 13 December 2021

When history gets a bit more personal ......... the Croton family

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Now I like the way that stories become personal, and so it is with two pieces I wrote on  Charles and Reginal Croton who were two our taxi...

The view from the hill ……. and other pictures ….. by Phil Mackie

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Now I have been revisiting some photographs taken by our Jill of Greenwich Park a few years back, and throwing in a few I took in the late 1...