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War Baby ......... stories by Eddy Newport no 26 ....
Another in the series by Eddy Newport taken from his book, History of a War Baby.Ted went to war, in the same way, as his dad David went to war in 1914. This was to set up a line of defence with...
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The case of Mrs Crowfoot's plum pudding ......... dark deeds at Well Hall in...
I don’t often go looking at the Proceedings of the Old Bailey which are now online and cover the period 1674-1913 which is my loss.*Well Hall Cottages, 1909They are “a fully searchable edition of the...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 6 ............ Gravel Lane
Now I know that strictly speaking Gravel Lane is neither lost nor forgotten.Gravel Lane, 2016It runs from Blackfriars Road up to Greengate, but that first chunk is hidden underneath the railway...
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Passing the time ............... early evening on the beach
An occasional series of pictures of people and places.Location; Alghero, Sardinia, ItalyPictures; People & Places Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, 2012 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Why did the Derby Poor Law Guardians lose grandad's place of birth?
Beware what you wish for is one of those warnings I have never really understood.William Henry Hall, circa 1930But then I have never really made that many wishes and likewise have never really been one...
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On Whitworth Street in May 2007
One from the archive.It is a scene you won’t see for much longer.And as I haven’t been down this way with a camera for a while it my already have changed.It was May 2007 and I was on Whitworth Street,...
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Rare pictures of the Horse and Jockey and a mysterious historian of Chorlton
This is one of three photographs that I doubt very few people have seen.It is the Horse and Jockey in 1933 and appears in a Short History of Chorlton-cum-Hardy published privately in that year.There...
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Salford pubs ................. nu 1 ........ The King's Arms and a bit of a...
Now here is a lesson in being overconfident and not looking for the simple answer.This is the King’s Arms in Bloom Street, the sign on the side of the pub says 1883 and from another source I got the...
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Pizza, pesto and a trip up country ........... getting closer to my Canadian...
Until recently I had no idea just how deeply my family’s past was linked to Canada.Our connections with Germany and Italy were pretty straightforward but the Canadian side rested on a few stories of my...
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War Baby ......... stories by Eddy Newport no 27 .... 1956
1956 was the year I started at OPC and my social life was running much as before. Chris Barber and band, 1957Steve Searl, Ron Devlin and Bob Taylor had secured apprenticeships in various firms and we...
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Stories from Naples in the spring of 1944
I am reading Naples '44* and it is one of those delightful moments when history and my fascination for Italy collide.It’s 1944 and Norman Lewis is a British intelligence officer with the allied armies...
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The places I usually don’t photograph ................... nu 3 the cut through
It was September 2014 and I was on my way to meet up.Location; ManchesterPicture; Manchester, 2014 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Rediscovering our recent past the Coldharbour Estate in Eltham sometime in...
I rather think that we often overlook our most recent past.There was one history teacher of mine at Samuel Pepys Secondary Modern School who maintained that if wasn’t at least a hundred years old it...
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Tall, elegant with a hint of decay .................. abandoned in the park...
It was one of those indifferent mornings which made going down to the beach a less than attractive idea so with the promise of cheap bikes for hire we went along to the park.It stretches for miles is...
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Beech Road in the summer of 1932
We are on Beech Road in the summer of 1932. Judging by the shadows and the activity it must be sometime in the morning. The manager of John Williams and Sons looks on as his assistant sweeps the...
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Random pictures of Deansgate ........... no 1
Take a fine day, the price of a tram ticket from Chorlton to town and you have a start of a new series.Andy Robertson introduced the new collection of photographs he sent over as “Random pictures of...
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Random pictures of Deansgate ........... no 2
Take a fine day, the price of a tram ticket from Chorlton to town and you have a start of a new series.Andy Robertson introduced the new collection of photographs he sent over as “Random pictures of...
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Looking for the bigger picture behind 12 Hope Street
The Hall family circa 1914Now I know that one person’s family history is another’s yawnI have in the past been all too guilty of boring the pants off friends with the intimate details of my great...
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War Baby ......... stories by Eddy Newport no 28 .........
Another in the series by Eddy Newport taken from his book, History of a War Baby, Eddy prefaced the next two stories with the comment that “I am afraid my blogs are not in any chronological order”...
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When horses raced on Middle Park Meadows
Middle Park Meadows circa 1900Well I had no idea that we had a race course and the hunt is on to found out more.And of course as ever the starting point has to be Mr Gregory’s book on Eltham published...
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