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Going to the Art Gallery in Piccadilly Gardens in 1929 ........ the one we...
Now what do you do with a big hole in the ground in the centre of Manchester? Today of course it would be sold for development and pretty soon a tall less than elegant tower would fill the spot...
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The lost building on Barlow Moor Road ……….
No matter how much you uncover about the story of Chorlton, there is always something new.1927 So, a while ago Kelsey Broome sent me a photograph of the old Royal Oak on Barlow Moor Road, which I had...
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The ship …….. a lighter …. and the River
Now I am the first to admit as pictures go these might not be the ones to enter for “The most exciting picture of the century”, but they are over 40 years old and come from a time when the Thames was...
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Walking with history …….. Bucatini Cacio e Pepe
It is one of the obvious observations that some of the simplest of dishes remain both fun to make and above all are totally delicious.Bucatini Cacio e PepeSo, it is with Bucatini Cacio e Pepe which...
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How we lived and what we did in 1938
I am back with that slim book which celebrated 100 years of civic achievement here in Manchester. Your City, Manchester 1838-1938 was written by "the Manchester Municipal Officer’s Guild in...
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Hailing a cab in Chorlton in the 1920s
Charles Croton was one of our taxi drivers and successful enough to have moved from horse and cab to motor vehicle by the 1920s and was listed in the telephone book by 1911. All of which makes him a...
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Pinching pictures ……ever acceptable?
It will have been sometime in the summer of 1979 when I wandered back to the Cutty Sark on Ballast Quay.Ballast Quay, 1979A decade earlier the pub had been one of our regular haunts.Even now the memory...
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In search of the sellers of sleep on Angel Street …..
Now yesterday I was on Angel Street exploring the stories behind the doors of the lodging houses, of which there were many in the surrounding area.44 Angel Street, 1897, Number 44 Angel Street was...
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When Chorlton made cars ………..
It is a story I have twice come back to having had a stab at finding out where and when a firm set up here in Chorlton making cars.Shaw's Motor Garage, date unknownFirst time round I tried following up...
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Walking the River ......... by the Cutty Sark
A short series taken from one day when I walked along the River. Back then the Thames was still a place to to earn a wage and watch as ships, and barges plied their way on the water.* Location; the...
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The Manchester of 1894
I have spent part of the afternoon looking through a wonderful collection of pictures of Manchester from the late 19th century. They come from a three volume collection published in 1894 under the...
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Mrs Keal and the mystery of 419 Barlow Moor Road
Leon's, 2015It has taken sometime but I am closer to solving the mystery behind the date on the wall of 419 Barlow Moor Road. Most people will know the place as Leon’s the fabric shop but I have long...
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One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 16 ........... the plays wot...
This is the continuing storyof one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.*Well Hall Road, 2014 For as long as I can remember our mum wrote plays, short stories...
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Letting history repeat itself …. standing up for Chorlton Library Live …...
Today I am thinking of how history unfolds and, in the process, repeats itself.Chorlton Library .... all things for the community, 2026Of course, it never quite does it exactly the same way but to...
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Lost along the River … somewhere beyond Ballast Quay .........
Fifty-five years ago, I regularly walked along the River from the food factory I worked at to the Cutty Sark pub.The silos, a dog and that walk, 1979It was an after-shift stroll to finish off a day in...
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Cleaning the brass and making the beds in Chorlton ........ with Miss Edith...
I wonder what Edith Ashworth made of Chorlton-cum-Hardy.She had been born in Northenden in 1880, and lived with her father and mother and four siblings in a small cottage off Mill Lane. Her father...
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One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 10........... from bread and...
This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* Now I suspect pretty much every generation thinks that there’s was the one which has...
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The night watchman............ out on the streets of Manchester in 1896
Once the night watchman would have been a familiar sight sitting beside his hut keeping warm at the brazier and maintaining a solitary vigil over the road works or building site. They feature in much...
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One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 9........... bold new...
This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.*I often wonder what those who lived in our house in the 1950swould have made of the...
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Secrets from a Chorlton grave yard ……
I am looking at the remains of a clay pipe dating from around 1831.King William lV pipe 1831-37I can be fairly confident of that date because 1831 was the year of the coronation of William lV and our...
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