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Another story from Tony Goulding ........ Reflections on 25 years of...
It is easy to take our recent past for granted and that I think is a big mistake.All too often what was familiar becomes the stuff of history and trying to rediscover it becomes difficult and in some...
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"down an inviting green lane [that] leads to Eltham, a pleasant walk of...
Now I never tire of guide books and so here we are with Bradshaw’s Illustrated Handbook to London and its Environs which was published in 1862 and includes a walk to Eltham.*South of Woolwich from...
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Passing Hartley's College on Alexandra Road South
This is one of those pictures which I never dreamed I would come across.We are looking at Hartley’s College and it is another from Valentine’s Snapshots of Alexandra Park.Now I don’t have a date but...
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Thirty years in the history of a bit of Wilbraham Road
I have over the last few days been reflecting on the changing views of one small part of Wilbraham Road. It started with a photograph from 1913 and I want to conclude with two from 1928 and sometime...
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Clyne House in the Royal Botanical Gardens ............. another forgotten...
Patients and staff, Cyne House, 1917Now there will be some who know of Clyne House and can instantly point to where it was, but I am not one of them.All I had to go on was this picture postcard dated...
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Catching the last horse drawn tram from Brooks's Bar, ......well almost
I don’t suppose the passengers on this horse drawn tram at Brooks’s Bar thought they were on the edge of history, but then no one ever does.But this is sometime around 1895 and within less than a...
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Walking through Eltham with Darrell Sprurgeon, ... part one Well Hall
The first of a series featuring Discover Eltham.*I am a great fan of Discover Eltham, so much so that I have two copies, and both are now battered and in need of tender care. But that is what happens...
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Down Edge Lane at Alderfield and Rye Bank in 1845 ............ avoiding Mrs...
Edge Lane 1845Now that stretch of Edge Lane which runs out of the old township up to Longford Park is somewhere I don’t often visit.And that is a shame because it was one of those parts of Chorlton...
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The photograph which begs a story
I have no idea who this woman is or where and when the picture was taken.But that doesn’t diminish my interest in the photograph.It comes from David Harrop who has kindly given me access to what is a...
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Crossing the river at Woolwich
There are only a few things that I miss about London of which my family is the biggest, but then there is also the river.We never lived that far away from it and for me it marks many of my childhood...
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A house in Whalley Range ....... the start of a search for its history
Doenberg todayThis is Doenberg on the corner of Wood Road and College Road and as you would expect there is a story.It was built in 1898 by Robert Rohleder and “was the first house in the district to...
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The Pardon Came Too Late .............. postcards from Holmfirth
I am intrigued by three picture post cards which I had at first assumed were produced during the Great War.Each carried an image relating to the execution of a British soldier along with verses from a...
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Mr and Mrs Heywood’s fine house ...... pushing back the history of Edge Lane
Looking towards Chorlton, with Heywood's house on our left, 1914There will be someone I know who has the answer to the mystery of those two houses on Edge Lane which stood between Longford Park and...
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After the Raid .............. discovering the preparations for the Manchester...
Nell lane after the air raid, 1940I suppose for most people the sound of an air raid siren is one of those historic curiosities which feature as a backdrop to fictional accounts of the last war or...
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That house in Whalley Range and the grander one in Chorlton, which was Oak...
Doenberg todayDoenberg is that fine old house on Wood Road just where it joins College Road.It was built in 1896 by Robert Rohleder and remained the family home until it was bought as the new residence...
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What a difference 37 years makes, outside the Arsenal in Woolwich
Sometimes a picture takes you right back and reminds me just how things have changed in a comparatively short period of time.So here I am at the gate of the Arsenal in the autumn of last year. Now the...
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Of floods and weirs and peaceful places, on the edge of Turn Moss
The weir in 1915I really don’t do enough pictures on the blog and rarely do those then and now sort of stories. So here with the help of Nigel Anderson and Michael J Thompson of Hardy Productions UK*...
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Doenberg that house in Whalley Ranges gives up more of its secrets
Now just when I had almost given up on Doenberg, that house on the corner of Wood Road and College Road, a little bit more of its history surfaces, courtesy of the one of the archivists at Manchester...
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“went down to Jackson’s Boat” ............ Bill's adventure from Altrincham...
Bill's postcard to May, 1907It is as David Harrop said to me a jolly scene and one that delights me as much as it must have done Bill who sent it to May Campbell in the March of 1907.The railway line...
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Bell Water Gate, 1977 a little bit of that lost Woolwich
Bell Water Gate, 1977Its official I have joined that legion of grumpy old people who lament the passing of the places I knew as a youngster.Now I could blame my friend Jean who has dug out and sent me...
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