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Remembering a lost Chorlton farm from over 79 years ago
Now I am looking at two pictures of Park Brow Farm which was doing the business of growing food from before the start of the 19th century.And what makes the two pictures all the more remarkable is that...
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Stories of Empire, and a context for one British family
A shipping list of the hopefulsSometimes you can just lose perspective when researching a family relative.I always told myself that in telling their stories I wanted to put them into the bigger...
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War Baby ......... stories by Eddy Newport no 24 .... another war
Another in the series by Eddy Newport taken from his book, History of a War Baby, Father Ted, and mother Edie.Ted aged 23 as Corporal E Newport soon to be a sergeantTed’s war history has never been...
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“willingly, smilingly and as though theirs is the privilege”* ............
An occasional series on the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War.**Now I was fully prepared and planned for a series of stories on the Red Cross during the writing of the book.It...
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Home thoughts of Woolwich from Italy .......... June 1919
This is the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele in Faenza in Emilia-Romagna sometime in the early 20th century.It is a picture I like and is also one that reminds me of Varese where some of our family live.But...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 4 ............ Caxton Street
Caxton Street is the one that runs from Chapel Street to the railway viaduct but once upon a time ran on as Union Street under the train tracks to Posey Street..Now I say that but am well prepared to...
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The old church on the green in 1933
This is one of my favourite pictures of the old parish church.It was taken by F. Blyth and appeared in A Short History of Chorlton-cum-Hardy written by J. D. Blyth in 1933.Now at present I don’t know...
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My Manchester, pictures without the words ............nu 1 St Ann’s Church,...
Yes some of the pictures have featured before but I like them.St Ann's Church, June 2014And yes there is a total absence of a story.Location; ManchesterPicture; St Ann’s Church June 2014, from the...
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A little bit of Copenhagen on Oldham Road ........ lost Manchester pubs...
I have Andy Robertson to thank for introducing me to the Copenhagen.That said the invite was too late to allow me to get a drink in the place. Andy sent these pictures over yesterday and afternoon with...
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Clyne House in the Royal Botanical Gardens ............. another forgotten...
Patients and staff, Cyne House, 1917Now there will be some who know of Clyne House and can instantly point to where it was, but I am not one of them.All I had to go on was this picture postcard dated...
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Another story from Tony Goulding .... Brownhills Buildings and “Brownhills...
For much of my childhood I lived on Ansdell Avenue and have vivid memories of playing in this back entry, which ran alongside Brownhills Buildings. I first became aware of “ Brownhills the Saddlers”...
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War Baby ......... stories by Eddy Newport no 25 ....
Another in the series by Eddy Newport taken from his book, History of a War Baby.Edie and TedWhat was I doing when all this was going, well I getting myself ready to make an entry into a war-torn world...
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Making a new start, Canada in 1851, an introduction to a story of immigration
James Hampson was born in 1816 and married Sarah Tildesley in December 1838 at the Parish Church of Eccles. In 1841 he described himself as a cotton dyer and in that year was living in Pendleton....
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 5 ............ what you find on...
I am always fascinated by those narrow little passageways which hold the promise of all sorts of dark stories.Passageway, 2016Now this one has no name, and leads to Harding Street which today just...
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Me, a camera and bits of the City I like ..............Nu 6 Knott Mill
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; Knott Mill, 2003, from the...
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William & Julia Relph of the Rising Sun a promise fulfilled
This is William Relph who ran the Rising Sun on the High Street from sometime in the 1880s till his death in 1909.Now you can never be certain but it is more than likely that when a photographer turned...
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Reflecting on Mr Amato’s Italian deli and Del’s cakes ...... changing...
Now when they come to write the history of Beech Road, and they will, there will be a debate on what caused its regeneration.Buonissimo, 2000In the mid 1980s many of the shops were closing and it was...
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Of Naples in 1961 and Little Italy in Ancoats in 1901
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...
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In the Piazza Monte Grappa
The Piazza Monte Grappa would not be my first choice of a place to sit and watch the world go by. It is a rather drab place surrounded by unremarkable tall buildings and dominated by a fountain with...
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Leaving for Canada in 1849 .... a momentous step
I think you would have to be really poor of imagination not to feel something at seeing the marriage certificate of an ancestor.I am staring at the marriage certificate of James Hampson and Sarah...
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