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Summer in the City
Now for no particular reason other than I took them and they are of Manchester, here is a short series celebrating places I like.All have appeared before and some a long time ago.Pictures; around...
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Greengate as you have never seen it ................. sometime in the 1850s
Now there will be no one who remembers this bit of Greengate and I doubt there will be many who have seen this painting.It is the work of C W Clennell who spent sometime in the twin cities during the...
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Charlton House ........ the one I always find by accident
Now I found Charlton House by accident not long after we moved to Well Hall and I had taken myself off on “an adventure.”And over half a century later I came across this picture of the Hall and a...
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Taken in to care in 1913 ............ one family story, and the progressive...
Now after reading the latest story on the Together Trust’s blog, I have been thinking of my grandfather and his siblings who spent most of their young lives in the care of the Derby Guardians.*Entry...
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Rediscovering one young man from the Great War
I think this will be the last of the stories about the young officer who died in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.Unknown young soldier, date unknownAnd it has brought together both the centenary of...
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The class of '68 part 4 widening horizons and lots of fun
Few of us get the chance to leave a past life with all its associations and disappointments behind and start out a fresh.This is pretty much what I did in the September of 1966 when I walked into Crown...
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Coming in from Cornbrook over the Bridgwater travelling on the big double decker
Well as a line for a song it lacks something and is a poor imitation of Arlo Guthrie.Added to which you will have to be of a certain age to remember his Coming into Los Angeles or his even better...
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One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 65 ............ what to do...
The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.*I doubt that Joe or Mary Ann would have been impressed by what...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ....... nu 39 New Bailey Street...
Now when Mr C W Clennell strolled into Salford from Manchester this was the result.So far I have come across four of his paintings featuring Salford.And that is al I am going to say.Location;...
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“I have seen the future and it works”* ....... The 1945 plan for Manchester
Now we are all used to those grand plans which are aimed at transforming where we live and in doing so how we live.I arrived in the city just as the area which was to become the Arndale was being...
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The class of '68 part 5 teachers and possibilities
Now most of us can look back on teachers who were very special. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from the larger than life and eccentric ones who sweep you along to the quiet and thoughtful...
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Historians of Chorlton ...... John Lloyd
Written in 1990Anyone interested in the history of Chorlton owes John Lloyd a lot. He wrote the first ever general history book on the township in 1972, and went on to publish a collection of...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester ....... nu 1 Blackfriars Bridge...
Now of course it does really depend on which way you cross the bridge.But I am not a pedant.And I am not inclined to add anything more, save to say it is another by the artist Mr C W Clennell who...
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Chorlton Mystery Walk ................ back by popular demand
Now it will soon be that time of year again when Chorlton Book Festivalreturns.*This will be the twelfth “with more events and authors than ever before, including Costa Book Award winning author Andrew...
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Bringing out that souvenir from the Great War
Now it isn’t always the big things which bring you close to the great events of history.I am sure that if I ever got to hold the original copy of the Declaration Independence signed in 1776 I would be...
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The class of ’68 part 6 a beginning
The class of '68We were the class of ’68.Twelve young people from south east London about to leave school for the last time.It would have been in late June or early July 1968 outside Crown Woods School...
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When St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester moved out to Prestbury
I came across David’s story of Collar House in Prestbury and its role in the last world war as an annexe to St Mary’s in Manchester. He kindly let me reproduce it here.St Mary's in 1939Amongst his...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester ......... nu 2 Victoria Bridge,...
Now there is not much more to say. It is the work of C W Clennel sometime in the 1850s.Location; SalfordPicture, Victoria Bridge, C W Clennell, m77145 courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and...
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One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 66 ............ more animal...
The continuing storyof the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.*Bagel & Tamala 1983Now I never knew Joe or Mary Ann but I wish I did,...
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Celebrating twelve years of Chorlton Book Festival .......... looking for the...
Now I think it is pretty much fair to say that we don’t do recent history very well.The first festival book history book walk, 2012Take for instance Chorlton Book Festival which runs from November 18...
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