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Cobden Street Pendleton, looking for the past
The Kingston Mill Cobden StreetIn 1911 there were five Cobden Streets listed in the twin cities which I suppose should not be a surprise.Richard Cobden the radical politician and co founder of the Anti...
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More of "Our Belles" from Tuck & Sons in 1908 and a bit of commercial sharp...
Newcastle-upon-TyneNow as every good advertiser knows when you have a winning formula you don’t throw it away quickly.So when Tuck and Son hit on the idea of issuing picture postcards with pin ups...
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Wishing you well ........... postcards from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham...
A short series with few words looking at the postcards we sent from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham.On April 10 1913 SN sent this postcard from North Woolwich to Miss Waller in Cambridgeshire with the...
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Snaps of Chorlton No 1 a lost road and a demolished house from Ida
Most of the images we see of Chorlton in the late 19thand early 20th centuries were the work of professional photographers. They arrived in the township, focused on the popular bits and sold them on to...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 10 Four Yards
Now I was never much good at maths or for that matter being able to make judgements about distance.So I can’t say whether the distance between John Dalton Street and King Street is Four Yards.To be...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 12 Chancellery Lane
Now I had wandered over to Spring Gardens to find Concert Lane and instead rediscovered this last bit of Chancellery Place most of which is broad enough but then narrows as it does a slight twist and...
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Those celebrity pictures from the 1900s
I am back with those celebrity picture cards from the first decade of the last century.They covered everybody from actors and music hall stars to the up and coming young stage personalities.Many of...
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Levenshulme Library
Now it easy to forget that that parts of south Manchester elected to join the city having spent a big chunk of time as self governing local authorities.Levenshulme Library, 2012So it was that Burnage...
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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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Wishing you well ........... postcards from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham...
A short series with few words looking at the postcards we sent from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham.The description on the back describes “the Parish Church of the Royal Borough of Greenwich is a...
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My Salford ..........nu 7 a memorial
Now I don’t claim that any of the following short series of pictures of Salford are magnificent photographs but I like them.Location; SalfordPicture; Salford 2008 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Snaps of Chorlton No 2 Beech Road, 1935 King George V’s Jubilee
An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton.Today we are on Beech Road during the Jubilee of King George V. I cannot be exact but it will have been between May 6th and...
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My Salford ........... nu 4 those cranes
Now I don’t claim that any of the following short series of pictures of Salford are magnificent photographs but I like them.And I have chosen those cranes to start the short run.They have gone now but...
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Miss Suzanne Sheldon and picture cards I would have collected in 1903
I have to confess that if I had been 15 in 1903 I would have been saving up to buy one of these picture postcards.They come from a series variously marketed as Play Pictorial, and Celebrities of the...
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Wishing you well ........... postcards from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham...
A short series with few words looking at the postcards we sent from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham.Our card was sent from Charlton on Sunday August 3 in the last summer before the Great War to a Mrs...
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Snaps of Chorlton No 3, from Neale Road off towards the Meadows 1963-64
An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton.It was taken in the winter of 1963-4 from the back upstairs window of Ida Bradshaw’s house on Neale Road.Today the view would...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 11 Dalton Entry
Now this is a bit of a cheat, because I have already written about this little alleyway which leads in a twisty way to Tasle Alley and Mulberry Street and the Hidden Gem.But that won't stop...
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Tracking the age of your house in Chorlton
Now one of the first golden rules of research is that you never turn down any information you are given.It might not fit with what you are doing but from experience it will sometime in the future.Age...
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Jazz in the Square
More pictures of live music in St Anns's Square during the Manchester Jazz Festival.Pictures; from the collection of Andrew SimpsonFull festival line up:...
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HOE'S SAUCES .......... THE VERY BEST, reading the adverts in 1900 and...
Now here is a story that has just got to see the light of day again.Back in December 2013 I posted this picture with the hope that one day “I can track down Hoe & Co Ltd, Manchester.”Well it took a...
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