Thursday, 15 September 2022

Manchester Piccadilly...... a new station for a new generation

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I have to say that when I first went into the newly designed and refurbished concourse of Piccadilly railway station I was impressed. ...

Down amongst the stalls in Beresford Square, Woolwich sometime in the late 1940s

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I am in Beresford Square in Woolwich and I would think sometime in the late 1940s. There is no date on the postcard and so I am forced ...
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Friday, 27th November, 1953 ….. another story from Tony Goulding

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This unprepossessing fragment of an old newspaper, most likely The Manchester Evening News, of Friday the 27th November, 1953 does not sugge...
Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Walking Chorlton’s past ……. another in Andrew Simpson’s History Walks

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Well next week sees the start of another Chorlton Book Festival. Wilbraham Road, 1900, once Kemp's Corner and later the Four Banks And y...

A gate in search of a story ………

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 I guess I must have passed this gate on High Lane heaps of times, but today I stopped to look in. That wasn’t as easy given that nature see...

The bits the Greeks forgot ……….

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Now Lourdas Bay is pretty typical of most of the Greek resorts we have stayed at over the last forty years. Amongst the holiday apartments, ...
Tuesday, 13 September 2022

The Magic on the hill ……..

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Now, if I had to nominate one place which combines memorable food, good service and stunning views it would have to be Lorraine’s Magic Hill...