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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 26 ........ at Salford Cross in...
Now sometimes it is best just to stay with the image and keep the words to the minimum.The Bulls Head, 1875The caption just says, “old houses, Salford Cross” and it was taken by James Mudd in 1875.I...
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Who remembers the ABC in Eltham?
Who remembers the ABC in Eltham?I thought I did, and was more or less certain it was where Pamela and I went for our first and only date in 1966.It was on the corner of Passey Place and the High Street...
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Looking for Madge Addy from Chorlton ........ a new development
This is thecontinuing story of Madge Addy who worked in Chorlton, was a nurse in the Spanish Civil War and was awarded an OBE for her wartime work as an undercover agent in occupied Europe during the...
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Discovering a little bit of Whalley Range’s history
Now here is a bit of history that I bet lots of people know but has passed me by and it concerns St Margaret’s playing fields in Whalley Range.The land is on Brantingham Road and was gifted by the wife...
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On Blackfriars Street sometime before now
Now there will be a lot of people with fond memories of the Crown on Blackfriars Street.Blackfriars Street circa 1980It was a pub I have always been meaning to go in and finally when I had the time and...
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Lost scenes of the Far East.......... Ceylon 75 years ago .... no 6 in the...
In 1944 a young Bob Ward was aboard HMS London stationed in the Far East.During his stay on the island of Ceylon he recorded some of the everyday scenes he came across.This is a record of some of what...
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A little bit of Manchester nearly 30 years ago ......... building the First...
I am looking at another one of John Casey’s photographs.It dates from the very early 1990s when the construction of the First City Crossing was well under way, and this is the section by Victoria...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ...... nu 28 Gore Street
It isn’t so much that Gore Street has been lost or even forgotten it is just that it has become another giant Salford car park.And what were once Morris, Beck, Ridings and Bolton Streets have suffered...
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Back with the Crown on Blackfriars Street
Now yesterday I featured one of John Casey’s photographs of Blackfriars Street in the 1980s.It drew a lot of attention as I knew it would with people remembering nights in the Crown and the two shops...
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The Woolwich we have lost
My sister and her husband had warned me just how much the centre of Woolwich had changed but when you don’t go there very often it is easy to forget that places can undergo a massive transformation.So...
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Outside Beech Road Police Station ........ revealing a little of the life of...
This is Police Constable Frederick George Ross standing with his colleagues outside the police station on Beech Road.Now I can’t be exactly sure when the picture was taken but one source has suggested...
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Lost scenes of the Far East.......... Ceylon 75 years ago .... no 7 the...
In 1944 a young Bob Ward was aboard HMS London stationed in the Far East.During his stay on the island of Ceylon he recorded some of the everyday scenes he came across.This is a record of some of what...
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Eltham Cinema and a word to the wise
Now here is a building that just passed me by.Eltham Cinema, 1913-1968It is the Eltham Cinema and was on the corner of the High Street and Westmount Road.It was opened in 1913 and demolished in 1968...
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Looking for lost pictures of Chorlton and memories of Cardiff Road
Longford Road,, and that lost Cardiff Road, 2015Now as pictures go it is not the most promising of images, but it offers a story.That said if you want to know about the lost road which once stood...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ....... nu 29 Blackfriars Street on a...
Now I am indebted to John Casey for sharing some of his wonderful photographs of Salford and Manchester.They were taken in the early 1980s and are a powerful reminder of just how much the area has...
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Push button A .............. making a telephone call in 1955
Now if you are old enough to remember Muffin the Mule, hid behind the sofa for bits of Quatermas and the Pit and thought the light had gone out of the world at hearing of the assassination of Dr King...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ....... nu 29 Blackfriars Road on a wet...
Now I am indebted to John Casey for sharing some of his wonderful photographs of Salford and Manchester.They were taken in the early 1980s and are a powerful reminder of just how much the area has...
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That post box which survived the IRA bomb ........ little known facts about...
Now if you live in Manchester the chances are you will remember where you were and what you were doing when the news of the IRA bomb came through.It went off at 11.47 am on the Saturday of June 15...
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Lost scenes of the Far East.......... Ceylon 75 years ago .... no 8 washing
In 1944 a young Bob Ward was aboard HMS London stationed in the Far East.During his stay on the island of Ceylon he recorded some of the everyday scenes he came across.This is a record of some of what...
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A Salford story from John Casey
Now John’s pictures have been a regular feature of the blog so when he sent over a story to accompany some of the Salford Bridge it was too good an opportunity to miss.As part of the Trinity Way road...
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