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On Court Yard in 1911 with Mrs Morris and memories of Eltham in the 19th century
I am looking at number 25 Court Yard, and there in the picture are Mrs Annie Morris and her sons David and Harold.I don’t know the date but I reckon it will have been sometime around 1911 because in...
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A site waiting for its turn
Now when Andy set off from Deansgate to Cornbrook he did as we would expect record the journey, and amongst the pictures of old buildings, exciting new developments was this spot.I don’t suppose it...
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A little bit of gentle fun ............. "Ma Makes a pair of trousers”
A short series reflecting on a bit of gentle fun from a time before now.It comes from the series Johnny's Ma and was adapted by Jimmy who changed the Johhy to Jimmy and wrote on the back "Jimmy Cheese...
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War Baby ......... stories by Eddy Newport no 22..... Dad and mum
Another in the series by Eddy Newport taken from his book, History of a War Baby.The Queens Own Territorial Drum and Bugle BandAs I said before, father met mother about five years before they got...
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Changing Chorlton .......... no 2 Conrad’s on Wilbraham Road and a for sale sign
Now in an age of online shopping which vies with huge supermarket chains, there is something very pleasant about shopping at Conrad’s.There is just so much in the place that it is pretty much like an...
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Private Thomas Leon Goldie of the Canadian Expeditionary Force ............
This is the ongoing story of the men from Canada who enlisted to fight in the Great War and are buried in south Manchester.Private Thomas Goldie was 6’ 2” tall gave his occupation as a mining engineer...
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Yesterday at Knott Mill
Another from Andy RobertsonLocation; at Knott MillPicture; from the collection of Andy Robertson, 2017
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Me, a camera and bits of the City I like ..............Nu 4 Castlefield
Now all these pictures have already appeared but that has never stopped me wanting to use them all over again to explore my City.Location, Castlefield, ManchesterPicture; Castlefield, 2003, from the...
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Poverty, TB, and a declining trade ........... Derby 1848
“The poor you will always have with you” Jane Lowe, circa 1870sSo might have begun any one of countless sermons in churches across Derbyshire in the summer of 1848. Its message would not have been lost...
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Photographs from the Royal Herbert during the Great War ............ a unique...
The Royal Herbert, date unknownNow the story of the Royal Herbert has just got a lot more exciting and that has a lot to do with a fascinating photograph album from the Great War.It belongs to my old...
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Eric, the Manchester Pubs book and the Bodleian Library not forgetting...
Now you know you have arrived when you get an email that begins, “on behalf of the Legal Deposit Libraries” with a request to hand over five copies of one of your books.The libraries in question are,...
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From Naples, to Cologne, and Manchester
Rosa in Naples 1961This is one of my favourite pictures of Rosa.It was taken in Naples when she was just 21 during the summer of 1961 just after she had collected her passport.Later that year she left...
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War Baby ......... stories by Eddy Newport no 23 .... grandparents and the...
Another in the series by Eddy Newport taken from his book, History of a War Baby.Grandad on leave, 1914Dad was born the third child to David and Jane (Jenny) Newport at number 10 Tarn Street Southwark...
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The Soldier’s Friend ..........
Now I was introduced to crested porcelain figures by my old friend David Harrop.He has a growing collection made as souvenirs during the Great War and some featured in the book, Manchester Remembering...
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Who remembers Traffic School in Derby?
Traffic School in 1990My mother, uncle and I guess both my great grandmother Eliza and her younger sister Maria, all attended Traffic Street School in Derby.It is also just possible that Eliza and...
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At the seaside in 1906
In the light of what was to come later this 1906 seaside picture postcard seems very tame. Sadly neither of the two in the collection has a message on the back which given the subject matter would...
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Me, a camera and bits of the City I like ..............Nu 5 Castlefield
Now all these pictures have already appeared but that has never stopped me wanting to use them all over again to explore my City.Location, Castlefield, ManchesterPicture; Castlefield, 2003, from the...
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Lost and forgotten Streets of Salford Nu 3 .......... Clowes Street
Of the threes streets that stretch from Chapel Street down to the river Clowes Street has fared the worst.Clowes Street, 2016True, at the bottom there are some new blocks of flats overlooking the Irk...
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Outside Venice ............
We were travelling back from the seaside west to Varese.There had been a vague plan to do Venice but in high summer with young kids that was never going to happen.Instead we stayed by the beach, and on...
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Sherard House and Church Row in Eltham in 1841 and Richard White census...
Sherard House from the garden, 1909This is Sherard House and once again I set out to describe the place and once again I have got side tracked.But I shall start with a little of what I know. It stood...
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