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Down behind Deansgate Station with the memory of a dark and forbidding period...
I think it must be a full decade since I wandered around the small network of streets behind Deansgate railway station.During the 1980s and into the turn of the last century the area bounded by...
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Looking down on Chorlton in the 1930s
I like this picture and it is not the first time it has featured on the blog.And the reason is obvious.We are looking down on Chorlton in 1933 and while much of what we know is there to see there is...
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Down by Hulme Hall Road and the passing of another bit of our history
Now I have to give it to Andy Robertson just hours after the news that on old mill had partially collapsed on Hume Hall Road he was there to record the building.I had spotted thenews story but let it...
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Telling the story of Alexandra Park ............ with your help ...... coming...
Walking in the park, 1906I keep coming back to this picture of Alexandra Park and of that boy staring back at us on a warm spring day in 1906.Of course his identity and what happened to him is...
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Another story from Tony Goulding .............. the tragic death of Peter Mee
The Mee family are an old Chorlton family so I was drawn to Tony's latest story.The Mersey by Jackson's BoatIn November 1923 a promising young footballer, Peter Mee, died tragically near this...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 33 ............ the works "Jolly" in...
Dad and a Glenton's coach circa 1949The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*I remember the first time I went to Brighton.It will...
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Alexandra Park the story ............ one day on and the stories and pictures...
Those steps in 2015 ...........Now yesterday I posted a story about our new book on the history of Alexandra Park.*It was partly an update on the project which will draw on the memories, research and...
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The Tudor Barn in 1909, one for the album
The Tudor Barn in 1909Now here is one for the picture album.This is the Tudor Barn back in 1909 and that really is about all I want to say.After all lots of people have written about it so I shall just...
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The lost road names of Chorlton
Now there are a lot of lost road names in Chorlton. I say lost but most are just name changes.I guess it was matter of eliminating duplicate names which appeared elsewhere in the city.So Regent became...
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Summer in the City
Now for no particular reason other than I took them and they are of Manchester, here is a short series celebrating places I like.All have appeared before and some a long time ago.Pictures; around...
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Summer in the City ............ meeting for a coffee
A short series using pictures taken over the last few years celebrating summer in the city.Picture; from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Continuing the search for Miss Robertson of Cheltenham ........ born in...
Now I know I will find out more about Miss Kathleen Roberts, but I fear it won’t be yet.And that is a shame because I have now seen the medals she was awarded by the Red Cross for her work during the...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 34 ............ that lost model shop...
The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Airfix, 1959Now it will seem daft but for the last few years I have wasted time looking for...
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Walking along Court Yard in the June of 1841, looking for John Martin and...
Court Yard, 1858-73“If you take up a position upon the spot where what we now call the Court-yard meets the High street, you will be standing at the centre of village activity and trade in olden...
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On arriving at Castlefield
Nothing quite prepares you for the entrance into the Castlefield Canal Basin.We had been walking the Duke’s Canal from Stretford into town one summer’s day. The route is a mix of the residential and...
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Back on Chorlton Green with a painting and a debate
Down on the Green, 2012Now here is one of those simple lessons about our recent past.This is the old village school on the green which along with the schoolmaster’s house was built by public...
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Telling the story of Alexandra Park ............ with your help ...... coming...
Walking in the park, 1906I keep coming back to this picture of Alexandra Park and of that boy staring back at us on a warm spring day in 1906.Of course his identity and what happened to him is...
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Alexandra Park the story ............ one day on and the stories and pictures...
Those steps in 2015 ...........Now yesterday I posted a story about the new book on the history of Alexandra Park.*It was partly an update on the project which will draw on the memories, research and...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 35 ............ New Cross Library,...
Thestory of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Dad, 1962Both mum and dad were voracious readers devouring two or three books a week.In the...
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Get there while you can ........... that 19th century building on Hulme Hall...
Now in the middle of the week I followed up on that story of the building on Hulme Hall Road which had suffered a partial collapse.The MEN covered the event and Andy Robertson went down to record the...
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