Thursday, 18 July 2024

The work begins …. restoring Chorlton’s historic landmark

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Anyone who has recently passed the former parish churchyard by the green will have noticed that preliminary work has begun to restore this i...
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Passing through what was to become Exchange Square

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Now this is the Corn Exchange sometime in the 1980s. It was a building I took for granted at the time and never for one minute though...
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Wednesday, 17 July 2024

The policeman and the bike ....... from Manchester in the 1980s …………….

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Now, demonstrations present the photographer with plenty of opportunities to capture the moment. These come from an Anti-Cruise Miss...
Tuesday, 16 July 2024

For the Friends of Oxford Road ............. of these are memories made part 1

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Now, this is one of the pictures I took of a demonstration in the 1980s. We are on Oxford Road just a little down from All Saints and i...
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Monday, 15 July 2024

Of floods and tourist attractions on the edge of Chorlton

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Today I am on the Mersey at the edge of the township.  It is 1910 and judging by the trees we are somewhere in the summer or early autum...

Nicholas Croft ........... another of Manchester in the 1980's

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Now this is one of those scenes which hasn't changed much in thirty years but I wonder for how much longer the buildings directly in fr...
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Sunday, 14 July 2024

Chorlton's own radical ... Thomas Walker

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This is the story of Thomas Walker one time pillar of Manchester society but also a radical politician who campaigned for the abolition of ...