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Hardy Farm ..... on the edge of the Township
This is Hardy Farm at the end of Hardy Lane, and you will have to be of an age to remember it.Hardy Farm, 1965It has gone now, but it appears on Yate’s map of Lancashire for 1786 and may date back...
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Just how exotic could Manchester be? ………. memories of 1971
Now you have to be of a certain age to remember the Ceylon Tea Centre, or its equally enticing rival the Danish Food Centre.An exotic market place, 1957 Back in the early 1970s they were a revelation...
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Of bandstands, demolished churches and a closed pub, Plumstead Common in 1915
Now every good park should have a bandstand. They were after all the centre of many parks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which reflected both civic pride and that long history of listening...
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When nostalgia is nothing more complicated than a sausage sandwich …….....
Now, we all have our own cherished memories which seem with the passage of time to encapsulate a chunk of our growing up.Whitworth Street, 1969 For me it is nothing more complicated than a sausage...
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What we did in October when we were still a farming community
Cows on the meadows, 2003An occasional series reflecting on what we did in the township when we were still a small rural community. Now if I had been farming here in the 1850s I might well have turned...
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Beresford Square circa 1900
Beresford Square is one of those places I remember with fondness. And it is a place I keep coming back to, so here is another of the place, in its heyday sometime at the beginning of the 20th century....
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Gilgamesh .... Enkidu ... a story over 4,700 years old .... on the wireless...
The Epic of Gilgamesh caught my imagination decades ago but I was too lazy to read the story for myself, and instead just relied on what I was told.Hero mastering a lion. 713–706 BCE And what a story...
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Hay making in Chorlton ............ or almost
Now here is an image which could have been so easily taken in Chorlton.Hay Making in Furness Vale, date unknown The picture is labelled on the reverse "Haymaking, Furness Vale" but the date and...
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One clock tower ….. a pub ….. and 4 funny looking cars ….. 47 years ago
The picture may not win any prizes for top quality image of the year.But then it was 1979 and I was just starting out on taking photographs and developing them using smelly photography.Still, it is...
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The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no. 34 ..... building the barrier
Another in the collection on that new build on the water. Now for many the Thames Barrier will be just one of those bits of river furniture, but for those who remember it being built, here is the...
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Home Thoughts of Woolwich ....... no. 1 ….. the badge
Sometimes it is as simple as a badge, which after 40 years brings back a bit of history.Having left Well Hall in 1969 for Manchester, I only visited the Tramshed on brief visits home, but it was a...
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The Bella Napoli on Kennedy Street ............ where we learned to love pizza
Now I won’t be alone in having fond memories of the Bella Napoli on Kennedy Street.Neapolitan pizza, 2017 It opened in 1973 just three years after the Isola Bella and we were there pretty much from the...
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Of floods and tourist attractions on the edge of Chorlton
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 autumn. To the left is the barn of Red Bank Farm and in the distance...
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Casablanca .... that film ... on the wireless today
It's the film pretty much everyone says they like.And why not?Set against the backdrop of the struggle against the Nazi regime, it has a superb plot, a clutch of excellent actors, screen writers and...
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One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 47 or so years ago …… walking the Rochdale in 1979
A shortseriesbringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Basin.Most have appeared before but not together in the order in...
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The lost Eltham & Woolwich pictures ...... no.3 the Pie Shop
A short series on the pictures of Eltham and Woolwich in 1979. For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the mid ‘70’s sat undisturbed in our cellar. But all good things...
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Chorlton in 1798
I am back with a little bit of Chorlton from 1798 looking again at some online records from Ancestry. This one is the Land Tax Redemption for 1798, which was a tax based on the value of someone’s home....
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Lost Woolwich .......... no 3 relaxing in the allotments 1905
Now of all the places I knew in my youth I have to say Woolwich is one of those that has undergone some of the most radical change. So much so that big chunks of it I have difficulty recognising. The...
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One canal …… 18 pictures ……. 47 or so years ago …… walking the Rochdale in 1979
A shortseries bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Basin.Most have appeared before but not together in the order in...
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Chorlton's own radical ... Thomas Walker
This is the story of Thomas Walker one time pillar of Manchester society but also a radical politician who campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade, supported the French Revolution and was...
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