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One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 76 ...... the sound of other...
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.*A little bit of France in Chorlton, circa 1976Now it seems odd today...
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When a comic story holds more than a truth .............. stories from the Eagle
Now I have no recollection of post war rationing after all I was only four when it was finally abandoned.But there will be plenty who not only remember it but will have stories of its impact on their...
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Tony Goulding’s ...... CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY HISTORY QUIZ - CHRISTMAS 2016 Part...
Yesterday Tony challenged you ........... how well did you go?1)What was the surname of the 2 brothers charged with the murder of P.C. Cock in 1876? Ans. Habron, William and his older brother John....
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What Charles Dickens might have said about the book Manchester Pubs and New...
Now it has to be pretty much a given that most people will be not be doing much on New Year’s Day.You could of course go for a bracing walk, write an entry in the diary cousin Mary gave you for...
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A little bit of 1949 and a thank you to Mike Billington
Now I know Christmas is behind us, but in the cold bleak month of January I would still be reading the books I had been given as presents.So for no other reason than I like the image here is the front...
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Dolly and her Zebra ................. at the Longford in Stretford this...
Now when you spend your time writing about the past sometimes you know pretty much when to let the story tell itself.So here we are at the Longford in Stretford with Dolly & her Zebra. It was...
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Beresford Square circa 1900
Beresford Square is one of those places I remember with fondness.And it is a place I keep coming back to, so here is another of the place, in its heyday sometime at the beginning of the 20th century.In...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ...................... nu 18 St Simon...
Now you can still walk along St Simon Street but it no longer follows the route that it did when it led from Blackfriars Street to the Anaconda Works of Frederick Smith and Co who were producing some...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 19 ........ compare and contrast
Now I am the first to admit I have become fixated by Greengate.Greengate, 1980And that is all the more ironic given that I wasn’t born in Salford and until a couple of decades ago was only vaguely...
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As others saw us ........... Eltham in 1858 according to the Melville & Co's...
Front cover of the Directory“Eltham is a small ancient but pleasant town and suburb of London adjoing Lee, eight miles S.E.from London, in the lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, Blackheath hundred, union of...
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Mr Gratrix's clay pipe lost in our garden in 1845
The pipe found in the garden, 2014It is not much of a piece of history but I found it in our front garden which makes it special and takes me back to sometime in the 19th century.It is a bit of clay...
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Stories behind the book ........ nu 3 making new friends
Now what I like about writing books is that once the research and the writing has been done and the finished product sits there on the shelf the fun has only just begun.Since we published Manchester...
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Celebrating our Municipal Town Halls part 3 .......... Woolwich Town Hall
It is all too easy to become cynical about public service and the achievements of local government.Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries local government more so than Westminster was at the...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ............ nu 20 remembering a bit of...
Now I don’t go in for nostalgia and rarely spend a lot of time reflecting on what might have been.But a long time ago I regularly waited outside the solicitor’s which was housed in that tall glass...
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Today I walked the old road .......... Part One
Today I walked the old road.It is little more than a narrow paved track but for centuries it was one of the main routes out of the village to Manchester. Along this road went the farmers with their...
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The links that bind us to Canada ...... reflections on the 150th anniversary
Now my connection with Canada goes back a long time and strictly speaking predates my birth and that of my mother’s and began in 1914 when my great uncle Roger was shipped over as a British Home Child...
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A day on Dane Road in Sale
Now I fairly confident that as soon as Andy’s picture of the Bridge Inn goes live on the blog someone will offer up a detailed history of the pub and more than a few interesting stories.And while I...
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The story of one house in Lausanne Road number 51 ............. watching the...
The story of one house in Lausanne Road over a century and a half and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Eagle Annual, 1963Now most of us will be able to remember where we were when the news...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ............. nu 22 that bit of...
Greengate, 2016Now I just can’t get away from Greengate, which is not surprising given that it is locked into so many people’s memories.And it is the start of that road that I am back with and in...
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Down at the Castle in the High Street with a bit of historical magic
Now one of the best things about history is when you get to touch it.And for me it doesn’t that matter much whether it’s a Roman coin or a glass medicine bottle from the beginning of the last...
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