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On the High Street in 1873
I have moved a little south from Well Hall and am wandering the High Street sometime in 1873.It is a scene we will return to in detail later.For now what strikes you perhaps more than anything is the...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 28 ............... two for one
Now I am coming to the end of the series, but I couldn’t close without offering up some of Richard’s pictures of more of the back streets of the city.Like me he has been attracted to these often narrow...
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Remembering Kingspot on Barlow Moor Road
Kingspot, circa 1980sI went looking for pictures of Kingy today.It was just one of those places we took for granted and long before Pound Shops it was somewhere you could get a bargain.Here could be...
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Back in St Peter’s Square ................ Library Walk
Now I recently featured Library Walk in that series on lost and forgotten streets of Manchester and as I was passing through St Peter’s Square on Friday, I just had to snap the entrance.The decision to...
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From cave to castle and on to a high rise ............ the story of houses...
I never think you can get enough of the history books written by R.J. Unstead in the 1950s.*This one comes from Black’s Junior Reference Books** and was published in 1958.It was not one that I was...
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The excursion on Liverpool Road that became an adventure
Now there is a very big difference between an adventure and an excursion.An adventure is something which is pretty much unplanned, where almost anything can happen and usually does.Lower Campfield...
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Celebrating a year of peace on Salford streets in the summer of 1919
Now my grandparents never talked about the Great War.It was something they lived through and seemed happy not to dwell on.Nor did they or my mum and dad spend much time looking back at the rerun.To be...
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A 1930s cinema and a church from Woolwich, more walks in Well Hall
From Kidbrook Lane to the Well Hall roundaboutContinuing a walk through Eltham in the footsteps of Darrell Sprurgeon. This is part two of the guided walk in Well Hall taken from Discover Eltham by Mr...
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A photograph, and an election campaign in the summer of 1945
A photograph is not much without the story that goes behind it.This one was supplied to me by my old friend Andrew Simcock who of course also supplied the story.It is 1945 and we are in Stone in...
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Always check your photo collections
Always regularly check your old collection of photographs is not a piece of advice I follow which is a shame, because had I dug them out more recently I would have come across this one of Barlow Moor...
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Edwin Norman Harland, born in Sidcup and emigrated to Canada and the case of...
The young EdwinNow, I always find it a privilege when friends take the time to write for the blog and so I was especially pleased when Jean added another chapter in the story of her family.Unlike my...
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Posting a letter at the Worsley Post Office ........ now that’s a zippy title
I am the first to admit that Posting a letter at the Worsley Post Office does not rank high as an imaginative title but there you are, sometimes you just have to say it as it is.And today I am going to...
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The Four freedoms, Free Speech 1 Speaking
Andrew Simcock & Gerald Kaufman MPA series of pictures taken in the 1990s debating the future of the National Health Service. Originaly issued last year.In 1941 President Roosevelt spoke of looking...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 29 ............... the one with...
Now I have never walked the entire length of West Mosley Street which starts at Princess Street, and ends at Marble Street.If I did I would cross first Nicholas Street, then Charlotte Street and lastly...
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The Old Road in the 1890s
Now the Old Road has always been special to me. It ran from Hardy Lane down past the Brook into the village by the church and then off across Turn Moss to Stretford. Over the years it has had many...
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The Four freedoms, Free Speech 2 Speaking
Gary BetneyA series of pictures taken in the 1990s debating the future of the National Health ServicePicture; from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Greenwich Park, and a moment a full 45 years ago .......... nu 2 from the river
It will be a full 45 years ago but the memory of that walk through Greenwich Park on a Saturday in September 1971 has never left me.I was in my second year at Manchester Poly and the pull of Well Hall...
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So what was going on at All Saints in Weaste on July13 1912?
Now here is a mystery worthy of investigation.We are at All Saints Church in Weaste on July 13 1912 and it would be fun to know exactly what was going in.Of course the most obvious suggestion would a...
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When Tom Mix played at the Pavilion, our first picture house
Now Tom Mix is someone I have come to know though sadly I have never seen any of his films.He was an American film actor and starred in many early western movies.He appeared in 291 short films and...
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A Victorian pillar box, the Portico Library and a story about the old Queen
I wonder how many letters Mr Ernest Marriot posted in this pillar box?He was the secretary and librarian of “the Portico Library and Newsroom” which is in the building that includes our post box.The...
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