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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ....... nu 37 Francis Street and that...
Now Francis Street which is off Great Ducie Street is hardly likely to lift the heart of the casual tourist or I suspect anyone.In the back yard off Francis Street, 1873True there is a hotel on the...
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A silk from France .......... postcards from the Western Front
Now I have no idea if the soldier who purchased this embroidered silk postcard was from Eltham.A message from the 8th London Regiment, date unknownBut given that it carried the badge of the 8th London...
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Down at Duffy's thinking about Audrey's and the man who sold a nit comb
Now Duffy’s has been serving up pints with football for almost as long as I can remember.Duffy's in 2008That said I did once have a meal in the place when it was an Italian restaurant and just about...
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The Queen & Pasley
Sometimes it is amazing how quickly our recent past can vanish.The Pasley Laundry was opened in 1893 on what is now Crossland Road and did not reach its 100th birthday.Laundries are a measure not only...
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Little Tony, Rock and Roll and Italy in the 1960s
Little Tony in 1967I came across one of those old faded newspapers yesterday from the 1950s with a story of a local Watch Committee* deploring the “effect of that American style of music commonly known...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ........ nu 40 Chapel Street
Now I know Chapel Street is nether lost nor forgotten but over the next few days here are a few photographs that were taken on a June day last year.And like all good pictures and stories I leave the...
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Back on Hardy Lane a long time before now
We are on Hardy Lane again. The caption just says “view from Hardy Lane, near Hardy Lane Farm looking across to Jackson’s Boat in the distance.”I don’t have a date but I guess it will be before the...
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T Tube Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, now that's a zippy title
Now I don’t have a date for this post card of T Tube Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, nor can I find out anything about the Mollyneux Brothers who marketed it.Of course in time I will, and the answers often...
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Leaving the city ............ adventures and the promise of something new.
Now railway stations pretty much have it over airports. True you can’t travel as far and the duty free doesn’t exist but still they have been magical paces since the first train from Liverpool pulled...
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Two old houses, a shop called Audrey’s and new friends ................. how...
Now the connection between two old houses on Upper Chorlton Road, the much missed “fashion” shop which was Audrey’s and a growing group of new friends might seem an odd one.198 & 200 Upper Chorlton...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ........ nu 41 Chapel Street
Now I know Chapel Street is nether lost nor forgotten but over the next few days here are a few photographs that were taken on a June day this year.And like all good pictures and stories I leave the...
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What we found north of Bologna
We were heading back on the long journey from the coast to Milan and having heeded the warnings of heavy traffic we left Alba Adriatica at 5 in the morning.And sometime around 11 just north of Bologna...
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Memories of Woolwich Arsenal
Now of all the pictures in the collection of the Woolwich Arsenal this one I suppose best sums up what was done behind the high walls just beyond Beresford Square.This is the Bullet Factory, and while...
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Eltham Police Station .............. one of those buildings I have always...
I don’t suppose I am the only one who takes the more recent buildings of Eltham for granted.The big brick built police station at the High Street end of Well Hall Road doesn’t have the style or...
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The Four freedoms, Free Speech 1 Speaking
Andrew Simcock & Gerald Kaufman MPA series of pictures taken in the 1990s debating the future of the National Health Service. Originaly issued last year.In 1941 President Roosevelt spoke of looking...
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Looking out at the allotments towards Sandy Lane sometime in the 1960s
Now here are two images of Chorlton which at first glance look familiar. We are on the allotments with the Park to our rear looking out towards Sandy Lane.Back in 1903 my friend Ann’s grandfather...
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Walking Woolwich on an April day
Now Woolwich is almost a lost place to me.I left in the September of 1969 and do not go home regularly enough.And so when I do it all looks very different, and some places so unrecognizable that I am...
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Walking the Thames
Now I am the first to admit it’s a bit of a silly title but that is exactly what my friend Neil did, once under the river at Woolwich and then again at Greenwich.It’s not my chosen way of leaving...
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The Four freedoms, Free Speech 2 Speaking
Gary BetneyA series of pictures taken in the 1990s debating the future of the National Health ServicePicture; from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 42 Chapel Street in the 1980s
This one I like.I could go on about the composition and the the mix of the old and new but will just say that John Casey captured Chapel Street perfectly.Location; Chapel StreetPicture; Chapel Street,...
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