Sunday, 27 September 2026

Crossing the Thames at Woolwich on the Will Crooks

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This is one of the old ferries which plied the crossing taking thousands to work and not a few just to see north Woolwich. The crossing...
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Saturday, 26 September 2026

One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 47 or so years ago ..... walking the Rochdale in 1979

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A short series bringing together for the fist time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Basin...
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The lost orchards of Chorlton

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Today I went looking for the Newbridge pear and the Rose of Sharon apple. They had been grown here in the 1840’s and had caught the eye...
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Walking the Woolwich markets …….. 1914

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Now I don’t usually just lift someone else’s work directly off the page, but today I am breaking that rule. And I am breaking it because the...
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Friday, 25 September 2026

Half a century of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre ….. the exhibition

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Yesterday I dropped into the major new exhibition celebrating fifty years of storytelling through costume, craft and performance at the Ro...

When your life comes packaged in just eight pages…….

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 It’s a silly title really but it sprang to mind after seeing Michael Kay’s post featuring the brochure for Manchester Polytechnic . It is d...

The Kickety Brook, Stretford, once a vital part of our flood defences

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I first walked the Kickety Brook with my old botanist friend, David Bishop. It doesn’t look much but it was vital in its day for prot...