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A shop before its time and a family search abandoned
It was one of those shops which with its quirky concept and interesting objects should have done well on Beech Road.Take an everyday object past its sell by date and no use to any one and turn it into...
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A little bit of gentle fun at the seaside in the 1930s ............. no 17...
A short series reflecting on a bit of gentle fun from the seaside.Location; at the seaside in WalesPicture; courtesy of Ron Stubley
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Paris ................ a long time ago
It was one of those short breaks to Paris which coincided with my first proper camera, a Pentax K1000, SLR.So good was the camera that I bought a second a few months later.I continue to have a strong...
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Celebrating a year of peace on Salford streets in the summer of 1919
Now my grandparents never talked about the Great War.It was something they lived through and seemed happy not to dwell on.Nor did they or my mum and dad spend much time looking back at the rerun.To be...
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Paris ................ a long time ago
It was one of those short breaks to Paris which coincided with my first proper camera, a Pentax K1000, SLR.So good was the camera that I bought a second a few months later.I continue to have a strong...
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A little bit of gentle fun at the seaside in the 1930s ............. no 18...
A short series reflecting on a bit of gentle fun from the seaside.Location; at the seaside in WalesPicture; courtesy of Ron Stubley
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For those with fond memories of Salford Lads’ Club
Now the story of Salford Lad’s Club is pretty well known.It was founded by the two brothers James and William Groves in 1903, opened a year later and has offered thousands of young people a heap of...
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REMEMBERING THE EMPLOYEES OF MANCHESTER CORPORATION TRAMWAYS ............
In my research of the Manchester Corporation Transport Employees on the WW1 Memorial Plaque I am greatly indebted to the Museum of Transport Manchester. In their vast archive of Manchester transport...
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A week and a bit in the history of Beech Road Part 1
Here for no other reason than I have the images are a selection of pictures of Beech Road during the last thirty years.I don’t claim they are all great photographs, some are just snaps others a bit...
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A century of shopping on Powis Street in Woolwich
I am back in Woolwich this time on Powis Street separated by just over a century.And I had forgotten how narrow the road is and how crowded it must have been when traffic including buses travelled...
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Arguing for peace in 1937 with Alice McIlwrick in Platt Fields
I shouldn’t have been surprised that Alice McIlwrick was involved in the Manchester and Salford Peace Week of 1937.She was “socialist by conviction and anti establishment by nature”* who had stood nine...
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A little bit of gentle fun at the seaside in the 1930s ............. no 19...
A short series reflecting on a bit of gentle fun from the seaside.Location; at the seaside in WalesPicture; courtesy of Ron Stubley
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Letters to Germany ........ from Derby in 1947
Union Street near Hope Street, late 1940sWhat did my grandfather do on a muggy Monday evening in 1947?Well there were plenty of cinemas in the town but I doubt that he would have bothered with a...
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The Letter Box graveyeard and other posty stories
In The Woolwich Drill Hall circa 1965Now one of the places I wish I had visited back in 1965 was the old Woolwich Drill Hall in the company of my friend Jean because there I would have seen a pretty...
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No 200 Upper Chorlton Road ...... part 1 looking for stories
Now I don’t suppose I would ever have been drawn into the story of no 200 Upper Chorlton Road if Mr Armstead had not asked me to research the house and its neighbour.*200 and 198 Upper Chorlton Road,...
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A week and a bit in the history of Beech Road Part 2
Here for no other reason than I have the images are a selection of pictures of Beech Road during the last thirty years.I don’t claim they are all great photographs, some are just snaps others a bit...
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A week and a bit in the history of Beech Road Part 3
Here for no other reason than I have the images are a selection of pictures of Beech Road during the last thirty years.I don’t claim they are all great photographs, some are just snaps others a bit...
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Sarah Sutton, a life lived out on the Row
There are no pictures of Sarah Sutton, nor to my knowledge has she left a diary, or anything which might tell me about her life.She was born in 1821 in Withington and lived with her husband in a wattle...
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Salford women in uniform nu 3 .......... the inspector of “clippies”
The first clippies were taken on in the May of 1915 by Salford Corporation.And in the way of things they also employed tram inspectorsLocation; SalfordPicture; Salford tramways inspectors, 1917,...
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Telling the story of Signaller Thomas Roberts of the 17th Manchester's and a...
I never tire of those old picture postcards which ask “can you pick out our house?”Didsbury Road, 1915I just think that in one sentence they bring you a little closer to the people who sent and...
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