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The not so dusty records of Woolwich ……..
Now for many years those of my friends who share my love of Eltham, Woolwich and Plumstead have sung the praises of the two volumes of “Records of the Woolwich District”. * Down an alley from Woolwich...
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When only the pubs were left ........
It is pretty true that during many of the urban redevelopment schemes of the 1960s and 70s, it was the pubs which remained long after the homes of their customers had been bulldozed downNow I have been...
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Voices from Chorlton ……… 179 years ago
In the summer of 1847 Alexander Somerville had come looking for potato blight, that disease which had ravaged the crops of Ireland and had been reported just a little further south in Derbyshire and...
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More history from Chorlton Book Festival with Brian Groom .... tomorrow
Part of theChorlton Book Festival 2026 collectionChorlton LibraryManchester, Greater ManchesterThursday, September 24 6 PM - 7 PMOverview"Chorlton Book Festival presentsWe are so excited to welcome...
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Walking through the lost Hulme and Moss Side
Now I have been a great fan of Roger Shelley’s photographs for over a decade, ever since he shared a collection of pictures he took of a group of young lads playing in the near ruin of Hough End Hall...
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Chorlton Brook and the Cliffs at Holland Wood in 1847 ... part two
Holland Wood, by the Cliffs along Chorlton Brook, circa 1907We are in Holland Wood, sometime at the beginning of the 20th century and according to the caption on the photograph, “on Chorlton Brook...
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Walking Woolwich and Eltham in 1948 .... no 1
Now I am back with my copy of the Official Guide to Woolwich which was published by the council.It includes Eltham and Plumstead, and was the “Fifth Edition”.I have no idea when it was issued but...
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One more bit of the jigsaw ….. the mysterious secret of the hidden Chorlton...
Some stories just keep giving and the hidden fourteen photographs found in a house in Chorlton just keeps giving. *I was first alerted to them by Peter Armistead who has been developing 515-521...
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Vanished Manchester communities ...........
Now I have been a great fan of Roger Shelley’s photographs for over a decade, ever since he shared a collection of pictures he took of a group of young lads playing in the near ruin of Hough End Hall...
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On walking along Academy Road out of Woolwich in 1906
Just occasionally I slide into nostalgia and this 1906 postcard of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich does it for me. Now given that I was born in 1949 and first saw the Academy in the summer of...
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Chorlton Brook
It winds its way across Chorlton from the border with Withington, having traversed the city, taking on different names in that journey, and runs out into the Mersey.* In its time it was an important...
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OK you can come in now....Chorlton gets its first proper municipal Library
Opening the library in 1914I say first proper municipal library because we had had a few private ones and a temporary one but this building opened in November 1914 was a proper first. It arrived after...
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A sightseeing trip to Woolwich and those old wooden prison hulks with their...
Now I had completely forgotten about those old 18th century prison hulks moored at Woolwich and also of the excellent little book by Mr Reg Rigden*The Floating Prisons of Woolwich and Deptford,...
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The forgotten story ………. a little bit of squatter history in Alexandra Park
Now the story of how the military buildings in Alexandra Park were taken over by squatters in 1946 has faded from memory. The squatter movement was a direct response to the shortage of accommodation...
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Fair sits the day for a walk through Chorlton's past at 2pm today*
There is still time to get your tickets for this history walk through our collective past.The Narnia Lampost, 2024It's a stroll down Beech Road which will reveal what life was like in a small rural...
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Walking Chorlton's past .... that popular history talk with Andrew Simpson...
This Sunday you can walk our past with Andrew Simpson and discover just who you might have to be polite to.Ploughing beside Beech Road, circa 1892Now that is not so daft a question if you lived in a...
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One hundred years of one house in Chorlton …. part 162 …. endings
The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.*Long before a distinguished historian chose to tell the story of a...
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In search of an adventure out of Peckham ............. foot tunnels and a...
Now the thing about adventures is that there should be no rules, no preplanning and just an optimistic expectation that it will all turn out alright and along the way you will have some fun.Woolwich...
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Two pictures …. a memory …… and a lost landscape
Memories fade and eventually are lost and so these two images of Manchester on August 1st, 1957, are a powerful reminder of what the city was once like.Two for one, a panorama of destruction, 1957Both...
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Manchester …. ready for another international event?
Now Manchester does its bit at hosting international events, from heaps of football matches to the Commonwealth Games and possibility the G20 annual gathering next year.So, I wonder if there are plans...
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