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Robin .... A Christmas Annual from the Hulton Press, in 1953
This is the last of those comic annuals which were published by Hulton Press.Robin was aimed at very young children and while I remember getting the comic and perhaps even the first annual in 1953...
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Eltham from the pen of Llwyd Roberts ....... nu 4 Tudor Barn Farm Offices 1930
Now I am a great fan of the work of Mr Llwyd Roberts.He was during the 1930s our artist in residence and during that time produced a heap of line drawings of Eltham and the surrounding area.Some were...
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By the Cenotaph watching the buses go by sometime in the 1960s
Now as we move towards the official re dedication of the Cenotaph in its new position outside the Town Hall I think it is appropriate to look back on the site as it was in the 1960s.It is a scene many...
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Another bit of the story of Chorlton's first cinema and a performance of...
Now I would like to think that one day I could identify these members of the Chorlton Operatic Society.In 1910 their secretary was Herbert Bayfield of 61 Claude Road, and their conductor a T M...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 8 .... Chapel Street
Now before any says anything I am quite well aware that Chapel Street is neither lost nor forgotten.Anyone who has tried to cross the road from Trinity Church to the other side during the rush hour...
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Messages from the Royal Herbert to Nelson in Lancashire
Now this photograph of the Royal Herbert will be familiar to many and it is one that I have featured countless times.But what makes this one unique is the message on the back which was sent to a Mrs...
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From timber yard to wine bar, the last 42 years of the Rochdale Canal
I have been writing about the Rochdale Canal recently because of a wonderful collection of photographs taken in 1974 by Eileen Blake. They perfectly capture the canal when it was still a neglected...
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Eltham from the pen of Llwyd Roberts ....... nu 5 the White Hart 1930
Now I am a great fan of the work of Mr Llwyd Roberts.He was during the 1930s our artist in residence and during that time produced a heap of line drawings of Eltham and the surrounding area.Some were...
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Memories of the Manchester Blitz, Christmas 1940
“Another airman and I left Hawarden for Wilmslow (Just outside Stockport) via Chester, Crewe and Stockport, we were going to Manchester for a last fling, but, as it turned out, Manchester had its own...
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Lost and forgotten Salford streets nu 9 ......... Mallett's Court and Greengate
Greengate, numbers 34-42, circa 1895You won’t find Mallet’s Court nor for that matter the beer shop of Mrs Lucy Parton which occupied numbers 34 & 36 Greengate, or the home of Mr James Finn...
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One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 17 ........... of what is to...
This is thecontinuing storyof one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.*Now how we celebrate Christmas is a very personal thing and is a mix of the current...
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Christmas greetings from the beginning of the last century
Christmas greetings from the beginning of the last centuryPicture; from the collection of Rita Bishop, courtesy of David Bishop
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Calling in at Barlow Hall trying to recreate that visit in 1887
Now I have been fascinated by Barlow Hall for a long time but I have to confess I have never been there so when Andy Robertson sent me some pictures of the place I decided it was time to rerun an old...
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Christmas Postcards
This was sent on December 24th 1906 at 11.30 and given the frequent collections and deliveries would have arrived on the same day.There was no message but perhaps the caption was enough. The...
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Gambling on the popularity of a German Christmas card in the December of 1912
Now had I been a shop keeper in the run up to the Christmas of 1912 I might well have bought in to a few sets of Tuck and Sons “A Winter Campaign.”The series showed a group of snowman in slightly...
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Back with the Eagle in the 1950s
Now if you were born sometime between the early 1940s and the mid ‘50s, the chances are you were a fan of the Eagle comic.It is a topic I keep coming back to and the reason is that back then it...
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Christmas 1915 ............ thoughts from George to his wife Nellie
Last Christmas our Saul was not with us and he was missed.All of which makes me reflect on how much harder it must have been for thousands of families a century ago as we moved towards the second...
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Faces from the Royal Arsenal
I doubt we will ever get to know the identity of these eleven women and one man.I can’t even offer up a date or a location, although judging by the background I think we are in a photographer’s...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 10 .......... under the arches of...
The short trip through the gloom of the railway arches brings you out on a stretch of Bury Road flanked by modern retail and residential properties and ends in a narrow alley.Along the way you can...
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A pub book for Christmas .....Manchester Pubs - The Stories Behind The Doors...
Well it’s been a long time in coming but here today is the book that tells the story of 78 iconic Manchester pubs and drinking places.When we set out to write the book I don’t think that either of us...
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