Saturday, 22 February 2025

Narnia on the Green ……

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Daft I know and there will be those who will be dismissive of the Narnia books and a tad critical of the quality of the picture. But I like ...
Friday, 21 February 2025

The day I lost a Chorlton Chartist

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Well to be more accurate, it was more the day I invented one who never was.  It all looked so good.  In the June of 1847 Alexander Som...
Thursday, 20 February 2025

That twisty little side street …… all promise with a hint of mystery

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Now I have always been fascinated by Back Pool Fold, and have written it about it more than once .* Back Pool Fold, 1967 It has an ...

Voices from Chorlton ……… 175 years ago

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In the summer of 1847 Alexander Somerville had come looking for potato blight, that disease which had ravaged the crops of Ireland and had ...

Walking away with a bargain ...........in the market in Ashton on a Tuesday in February

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I had forgotten how much I like Ashton and in particular the market. We had taken the tram up from Chorlton on a bright sunny day whi...
Wednesday, 19 February 2025

In Ashton-Under-Lyne with James Butterworth in 1823

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Now I made a terrible mistake some years ago and got rid of loads of old history books. I reasoned as many dated from the late 1960s fr...

Off to Didsbury, in the summer of 1847

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Now I can be as adventurous as the next chap and have been known to venture out of the township as far as Didsbury. It was after all w...