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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ....... nu 30 Chapel Street sometime in...
This is another of those images from John Casey.Location; SalfordPicture; Chapel Street, circa 1980, from the collection of John Casey
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Eltham High Street in the summer of 1915 and again sometime in the 1960s
At first glance it looks familiar enough. We are looking at the parish church on a warm summer’s morning sometime in 1915.It is a picture I have grown to like and given that I have just bought the...
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Taking up the new craze of Glider Skating down at the Gliderdrome on Barlow...
I wonder if there is anyone who was in the former Chorlton Palais on Barlow Moor Road in 1939 and joined the fun that was Glider Skating.The dance hall had been renamed the Manchester Gliderdrome and...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ....... nu 31 the old Ship Inn
This was the very first picture John Casey shared with me.John took the photograph in the early 1980s and posted it beside a story I ran on the old Ship Inn.And any one who has recently wandered down...
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Lost scenes of the Far East.......... Ceylon 75 years ago .... no 9 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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On Shooters Hill in 1872
I am on one of those journeys and I am pretty much going to let the map do the business. We are on Shooters Hill in 1872 and we are looking at the OS map of London for that year.Now maps especially...
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“that plague has entered almost every house in the village which contains...
The April and May of 1886 were anxious times for any in the township with children for we were in the grip of a measles epidemic. This according to one resident “has been ranging for many weeks now”...
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Madge Addy ........ nurse and secret agent comes out of the shadows
Now the remarkable story of Madge Addy is about to reach a much wider audience and with that I hope we are one step nearer commemorating her achievements in two of the major armed conflicts of the 20th...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ....... nu 32 the Old Shears Greengate
Now this is a story for which all the credit goes elsewhere.The picture is another from the camera of John Casey and the description of the pub was taken from that excellent site on the history of...
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Wandering the city in July .......... nu 1 a statute
It was the one day lat July when the weather was just about OK.And that really is all there is to say.Location; ManchesterPicture; St Ann’s Square, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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On Shooters Hill in 1909
Looking down Shooters Hill in 1909I am back on Shooters Hill in the June of 1841 thinking about the small community of 58 people who lived on this northern boundary of Eltham.I had planned to write...
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When flooding stopped the trains
It might seem a last exhausted stab at stories about Chorlton and flooding but this one is interesting and set me off on one of those little historical adventures.The picture is undated and could be...
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Just thirty years ago on Withy Grove .......... from the new collection
Now I maintain and I maintain most strongly that some of the most fascinating images of the twin cities come from the last four decades.The old black and white photographs from the late 19th and early...
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Wandering the city in July .......... nu 2 a shop
It was the one day last July when weather was just about OK.And that really is all there is to say.Location; ManchesterPicture; St Ann’s Churchyard, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ... nu 33 Chapel Street and a question
Now I wonder how many people showed an interest in buying this rather run down property.And there must have been a lot given that according to the for sale sign “this valuable site [was]on sale...
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Lost pubs of Manchester ......... no 15 Swan With Two Necks at Withy Grove
Now I never visited the Swan With Two Necks on Withy Grove and now I never will.Swan With Two Necks, 1980sAccording to one sourceit had been doing the business of serving up beer from 1795 and...
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The story behind the story of an Eltham postcard
Now as everyone knows there can always be more than one story behind a picture postcard.The first is the image on the front which in an instant tells you so much about a place in the past.And then...
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In search of the Rough Leech Gutter
Every winter we get the Edge Lane Lake which depending on the amount of rain that has fallen can either be a puddle or some quite extraordinary expanse of water. Not that I ever gave it much thought...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ... nu 34 a reassuring discovery
Sometimes amidst shed loads of change along Chapel Street it’s reassuring to see that some things have stayed the same.And so it is with the Salford Arms.Not that I have ever been inside and I am sure...
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Looking into the future of Eltham High Street in 1975
The High Street in 1910Now I don’t normally go in for then and now pictures but I have made an exception with these two images from a 1975 document issued by the Council.*The book was part of a...
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