Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Just how many accidents can a sea side pier have in its life time?

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Now I thought I had finished the Deal series, but no, I was wrong, because yesterday our Colin and Elizabeth sent me this picture. Mos...
Tuesday, 18 January 2022

Of lifeboats and shingle .............

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This will I think be the last of the short series on Deal. I say that but I have every expectation that our Elizabeth and Colin who liv...
Monday, 17 January 2022

Walkng the streets of Manchester in 1830 in the company of J. T. Slugg and in search of Antonio Preduzzi.

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St Ann's Church, 1793 I am on the streets of Manchester in the early 1830s in the company of J T Slugg* and in search of Antonio P...
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The tank, …….. a piece of porcelain …. and the auction house

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Now, I don’t pretend to be an expert on military history and certainly not the development of the tank during the Great War. A Mark 1 tank, ...

Wilbraham Road in 1913 and the first of six images from Raphael Tuck and Sons

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There are some images of old Chorlton which just keep cropping up. Now that I guess is not surprising given that they were commercial p...

Stories with a camera in Deal ….. on a day in April ……… part 5

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Somewhere there will be a book which records all those bits of seaside architecture the rest of us take for granted. Now, I bet there a...
Saturday, 15 January 2022

Two picture postcards ... two operas ........ and two young singers .......

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Now I am indebted to Tony Goulding for finding these two picture postcards and sending them over to me. Aileen Davies, circa 1920s They are ...