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So just how does an archive near Manchester help explore the story of a...
Now as many will know I have long been interested in the work of the Together Trust which as the Manchester & Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refugees has worked tirelessly on behalf of young people for...
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The Schools of High Lane ......... another from Tony Goulding
For over 140 years some of the young people of Chorlton-cum-Hardy (and beyond) have been educated at a wide variety of educational establishments along the length of High Lane. The New Art SchoolWhen...
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It’s not every day you get a telegram from Buckingham Palace
Well not me any way but perhaps in the course of their civic responsibilities the Mayor of Salford might expect the odd visit from the telegram boy.And so it was in 1963. I trawled the Guardian on...
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Wandering down Court Yard letting the magic wash over you
When I was growing up the area around the Palace was a pretty magical place.*Of course the old hall was only open at certain times but that just meant you were forced back to wander down Court Yard and...
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Making history of the future...
“No man can have in his mind a conception of the future for the future is not yet. But of conceptions of the past, we make a future.”*I often come back to what Thomas Hobbs said whenever I indulge my...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 25 Ashley Lane ............. now...
Now Richard’s picture of Aspin Lane as it runs under the railway viaduct is as atmospheric as you could get.Aspin Lane, 2016The wet stone setts, the lonely lane framed by that viaduct takes you back a...
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Looking back on a century ............ Alive, Alive Oh! and Other Things That...
Now here is a book I have enjoyed reading and have startted all over again. It is Alive, Alive Oh! and Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill .*It covers the years after the Second World War when...
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Who remembers the Gorton Brook Hotel which became the Gorton Arms and has now...
Now you know you are of a certain age when more and more old and familiar pubs have shut up shop and in some cases are just holes in the ground.What’s more there seem to be more of them with each year...
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1931 on Vine Street Kersal .........with a link to Manchester and Sheffield
Now here is one of those little mysteries which I know we will never quite get to the bottom of.The picture postcard is entitled Kersal from the Cliff and is a fascinating snap shot of the river and...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 26 ........... Little Nelson...
Now the interested student of history and the visiting tourist will at some point fall on Little Nelson Street.Little Nelson Street, 2016It’s just yards from Angel Meadow and of course is dominated by...
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The Story of Royal Eltham and a thank you to Roy Ayers
Pound Place in 1909Now this is a view of the Eltham which has passed out of living memory.It is of Pound Place looking north and dates from about 1909 and comes from a wonderful treasure of a book...
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Down on Chorlton Green with the Penny Savings Bank
I like the way stories have a habit of coming around all over again.And so it is with the Penny Savings Bank. It was set up in 1887 and according to the bank “any sum may be deposited between One...
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On passing one of the tallest buildings in Salford
Now I am pleased Peter painted Highland House which is on Victoria Bridge Street for a variety of reasons.It is after all one of the tallest buildings in Salford, has one of those interesting histories...
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Rediscovering a bit of police history half a century ago
Now here is another of those books whose contents has passed into history.The Eagle Book of Police and Detection, was published in 1960.At the time I can remember thinking how modern most of what I was...
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The young bride from 73 West Chislehurst Park, Eltham, living a new life with...
Now I am in reflective mood and have returned to stories of those who left Britain to start new lives in Canada and even further afield in Australia and New Zealand.Maud and Edwin and the boys 1909So...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 27 ............ Royal Exchange...
Now I doubt that anyone using the arcade as a short cut from St Ann’s Square would agree that its either lost of forgotten, nor for that matter the shop keepers.But for any one of my generation the...
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Almost a century of cutting hair on Wilbraham Road with the Stevenson family
Now there will be plenty of people with fond memories of Stevenson’s the hairdressers.It did the business of cutting, shampooing and much more from 432 Wilbraham Road from 1908 until almost the end of...
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Waiting for a tram going through St Peter’s Square
Well that interruption to the tram services through St Peter’s Square seems to have lasted for ages.But soon .......... in just a few days the trams will rumble past Central Ref again which for anyone...
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Sailing with the Phoenicians to the Tin Islands and more ......... A Picture...
I am back with another of those history books written for children in the 1950s.Many of the ones I was given at the time have survived and sit on our book shelves along with others that I have bought...
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When Salford went to Shrewbury
Now I am intrigued by this postcard sent by Ellen to Miss Mullins who was living at Hook – a- Gate near Shrewsbury.Now I can’t be sure where Ellen was in October 1907 but it wasn’t Salford because the...
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