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Another of those vanished scenes ........... the Thames and Tower Bridge
Now you will have to be the wrong side of 40 to be able to recall this scene.The date on the card is 1936 but the scene with cargo ships discharging all manner of things from around the world was still...
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Ghost signs from a long ago conflict
The caption is less than revealing and merely states that it’s Oxford Road, Site of Students Union..Now I am a little puzzled because the student’s union building on Oxford Road was put up in 1958, and...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester ........... nu 3 how things change
I recently included much the same view along the river in the 1850s by the artist C W Clennell.And now I am back in 2016.Location SalfordPicture; the river and the bridge, 2016 from the collection of...
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MANCHESTER CORPORATION TRAMWAYS ......... REMEMBERING THE EMPLOYEES WHO FELL...
When Great Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914 it was widely believed that it would be over by Christmas. However as we approach Christmas 2016 at this moment in time one hundred years ago...
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One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 67, paying the chief rent again
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.*It is that time of year again.Yesterday we got our twice yearly demand...
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Rational Rationing down at the gas showrooms with Miss Arscott of Whalley...
Now this is one of those little bits of history which deserves to be brought out and explored.It is another advert from my friend Sally who unearthed it from a back edition of the Manchester Evening...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester ........... nu 4 two for one
Now I am the first to admit the lighting is all wrong and I suspect the composition is iffy but its a picture of a bridge.Which actually contains two ....... one behind the other and three if you count...
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Rumours of war from Germany on a winter's night in Derby
Two of her nephews12 Hope Street, Derby seems a long way from Berlin. But perhaps not for my grandmother who in the 1930s listened to the news from her native Germany.With the family out or asleep...
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Photographs from the Royal Herbert during the Great War ............ a unique...
The Royal Herbert, date unknownNow the story of the Royal Herbert has just got a lot more exciting and that has a lot to do with a fascinating photograph album from the Great War.It belongs to my old...
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OK you can come in now....Chorlton gets its first proper municipal Library
Opening the library in 1914I say first proper municipal library because we had had a few private ones and a temporary one but this building opened in November 1914 was a proper first.It arrived after...
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Of a cattle market iron foundry and dye works ..... Derby in the 1950s
I never thought it was odd that just a short walk from Hope Street there was a cattle market despite it being so close to iron foundries, dye works, and timber yards while to the east and north of us...
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A railway model, the Manchester Regiment and an Italian company ........ what...
Here is one of those little stories that pretty much does the lot.It starts with a picture of model railway, touches on the history of a famous class of railway locomotive and ends with an Italian...
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Radical Salford ................. Eddie and Ruth Frow
Now I grew up being taught about Kings and Queens, a fair few generals and more than a few “great men.”Not that there is anything wrong in that providing all those other people get a look in. These...
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Souvenirs of the Great War .......... nu 2 the gold ear ring and the farmer...
A series to mark the week up to Remembrance Sunday.From my friend Linda.“After reading your blog I have taken a photo of one of the gold ear rings my Grandfather brought back from France for my...
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Rediscovering the Savoy cinema on Manchester Road in Chorlton
Now Andy sent me this picture after one of those very heavy rainy days which left vast lakes across Chorlton and made most of us feel thorughly miserable at what was supposed to be high summer.But what...
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Zeppelins over Well Hall
I have become fascinated by the story of the Allen family who lived just two doors down from us on Well Hall Road and died in a Zeppelin raid on August 25th, 1916.*Until recently I knew nothing about...
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Manchester Piccadilly...... a new station for a new generation
I have to say that when I first went into the newly designed and refurbished concourse of Piccadilly railway station I was impressed. Its bold open and light design seemed a world away from the drab...
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Souvenirs of the Great War .............. nu 3
Now just like the 85 bus to town, sometimes you can wait for ages and then two turn up at the same time.And that pretty much happened yesterday.It started when Bill shared a piece of crested china...
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Another bit in the continuing story of the Salford soldier captured in 1918
Now I like the way that astory pops back up and in the process opens up new information and you end up becoming friends with someone you didn’t know.*Red Cross Pow card, May 1918So having written about...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester ...... nu 77 and the ghost sign Andy...
The ghost sign and Cameron Street, 2016Now strictly speaking Andy’s ghost sign has been there for anyone to see, but most of us I guess just never will have noticed it.It is high above and to the left...
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