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Didsbury Pubs .............. stories, paintings and a bit more ........ nu 2...
A short series reflecting on some of the Didsbury pubs Peter has painted and I have spent time in.I have to confess it will be a long series given that both of us over the years can claim to have been...
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When Gas was glamorous ............ in the show rooms of the South...
Now the gas cooker, the central heating and the gas fired water boiler are pretty much taken for granted by most people.Even given the ever increasing price of the stuff many of us will just get with...
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One house on Barlow Moor Road over a century and a bit
Our house on Barlow Moor Road in 1904Now I don’t usually go in for then and now pictures but today is different.We are on Barlow Moor Road at the junction with High Lane, and I am looking at the same...
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My Salford ........... nu 3 those flats
Now I don’t claim that any of the following short series of pictures of Salford are magnificent photographs but I like them.Every series must have a glass building and a reflection.Location;...
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Another day in Warrington ................. nu 2 passing the pub on...
Yesterday we were promised what would be the best day for catching the sun.And that was pretty much the case although there were great chucks of the day when the clouds did their best to both hide the...
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From green fields to gas works, the Reverend William Birley’s change of...
In 1859 the Reverend William Birley had left Chorlton where he had been for seventeen years exchanging the small rural living for one in the in the heart of Salford. This was St Stephens* and it was...
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Well Hall on a wet day in 1964
Now just what do you do on a Saturday morning in early July when the rain is coming down like stair rods?I rather think an adventure in the woods is pretty much out of the question and likewise the...
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Wandering the city in July .......... nu 1 a statute
It was the one day this week when the weather was just about OK.And that really is all there is to say.Location; ManchesterPicture; St Ann’s Square, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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A little of what we have lost, Wilbraham Road in 1955
Sometimes I think it is the more recent photographs of Chorlton which are the more fascinating, and in their way the more revealing of how we lived.And so I am drawn to this one of Wilbraham Road...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 1 Sickle Street
Sickle Street from Market Street 2016If you walk down Market Street towards St Mary’s Gate you may well miss Sickle Street.It is a narrow alley which seems to lead nowhere and could just be an...
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In Warrington on a July day working out how best to take the Barley Mow
Yesterday we were promised what would be the best day for catching the sun.And that was pretty much the case although there were great chucks of the day when the clouds did their best to both hide the...
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Wandering the city in July .......... nu 2 a shop
It was the one day this week when the weather was just about OK.And that really is all there is to say.Location; ManchesterPicture; St Ann’s Churchyard, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Lost Woolwich .......... no 4 a football team
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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Hough End Hall in the 1950s
Now the thing about very old buildings is that usually we focus on that very old bit.So it is with Hough End Hall built in 1596 and for a big chunk of its history the family home of the Mosley...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 2 Pool Fold
Back Pool Fold is one of those twisty little thoroughfares which you think must have a rich and varied history and at sometime have offered up more than a few dark stories. Back Pool Fold, 2015But for...
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Who was H S Chips and what was he doing to be awarded this medal in 1916?
Now sometimes you just have to admit defeat. It’s not helped by the fact that I am not a sporty person and so the initials CFS coupled with the scene of a rugby match do not help identify the medal or...
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Women of Steel ........... the memorial and a chance encounter with Martin...
Now I had been following the project to commemorate the women who had worked in the Sheffield steel works during the last world war.In Sheffield at the unveiling, 2016The project culminated in the...
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Leaving Salford for Canada in 1849 and a family connection
Here is the story of James and Sarah Hampson who lived in Ashton Street, Pendleton in the 1840s, of their decision to leave Salford for Canada and the link to me.Marriage of Ja,es and Sarah, 1838James...
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More lost scenes on Beech Road
Marmalade closed a few years ago having replaced the Nose, the off license Threshers also closed and just before it did I took this shot of cafe life on Beech Road. In the same decade, Brian the Book...
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On the Thames .............. home thoughts from abroad
Now I grew up not far from the river and I have never lost my fascination for it.Not that this is some romantic twee nostalgic piece. The Thames even when I was growing up in the 1950s was a busy,...
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