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Always look up ............ Hollins Chambers
Another from Andy RobertsonLocation; Hollins Chambers, Bridge Street, ManchesterPicture; Manchester, 2017, from the collection of Andy Robertson
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ...... nu 45 Queen Street .... a car...
Now this is one of those stories which I know will require a lot more research and will I suspect also lead to a few cross words.The Gravestone in the carpark, 2016We are a car park where Clement...
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The Four freedoms, Free Speech 5 Listening
A 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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The magic of Well Hall half a century on
Now I have been thinking about what made Well Hall and the Progress estate such a magical place when I was growing up in the 1960s.It started with the roads that led off in all sorts of directions...
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The mystery of Cardiff Road in Chorlton
I wonder if there is any one left who lived in Cardiff Road in Chorlton.In 1907It was a small road of just eleven houses and I guess it owed its existence to our brick works which stretched along...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ...... nu 46 Lamb Court
It was called Lamb Court and ran from Chapel Street past the chapel and joined Lamb Lane.Location; SalfordPicture; Lamb Court, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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The Four freedoms, Free Speech 6 Listening
A 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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In Well Hall in the April of 1851
History is messy and rarely fits with that neat simplistic model we were taught at school. So take for example that idea that people rarely travelled and that most of us would have lived our life in...
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Looking for Lloyd Street ........... the lost roads of Chorlton part 2
Now you won’t find it in Chorlton but it did exist and it was that short stretch of Whitelow Road running from the corner of Beech Road to that point where Whitelow bends to the left.*This was once...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ... nu 47 less a street and more a pub
Now on the surface who could lose the junction of Chapel Street and New Bailey Street?On Chapel Street in 2016I bet it will have been just as busy back when the New Bailey Prison stood dark and...
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A little bit of our history down at the Co-op
2d token issued by the R.A.C.S., date unknownIt’s so easy to lose so much of our history.Now the big things like the homes of the great and good, as well as the not so good but still very powerful and...
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A little bit of how elections used to be fought, out with Dr. I. Richmond in...
It is 67 years since Dr I Richmond, JP stood for election in the Kirkdale Ward.I have no idea whether he was elected and without a lot of research I guess I never will.But it is one of those...
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King Cholera ......... stories of Public Health
We are a house of sickness. It was something we ate and now while fifty per cent of the family are laid up, quietly sipping the medication between bouts of sleep and the rest of us put on a brave face...
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A chance photograph, some demolished houses, a lost Chorlton road and a...
It is one of those curious things that it is often the most recent history that goes unrecorded.I must have walked down Ransfield Road loads of times in the late 70s and early 80s, but cannot remember...
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Looking for the lost ...... one street over time in Ancoats ..... no 4 the...
Thestory of one streetin Ancoats, and the people who lived and worked there.*Homer Street was located just south of St Andrew’s Church and was bordered by the canal to the north, the river to the south...
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St Ann's Ragged School on Queen Street, a story revealed
I went looking for St Ann’s Ragged School today But with no success.It stood on Queen Street which once stretched from Deansgate up to Albert Square but now runs up against Heron House which is that...
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A photograph, and an election campaign in the summer of 1945
A photograph is not much without the story that goes behind it.This one was supplied to me by my old friend Andrew Simcock who of course also supplied the story.It is 1945 and we are in Stone in...
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Bandstands ........... Nu 1 Victoria Park Swinton, 1897
Now anyone old enough to remember municipal bandstands in their hey day will have watched their slow decline.It was a combination of things from that war time push to recycle old iron which robbed the...
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Travelling by tram round the Well Hall Circus
Now I have no idea when this picture was taken. I do know that it will date from after 1931 when the roundabout was built which according to Eltham and Woolwich Tramways was constructed as part of the...
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On a warm sunny afternoon on Barlow Moor Road, sometime before 1939
I like the way that old postcards can reveal our past in many different ways.It’s every much as good as a detective story.You start with the picture, move on to the postmark and the message and if you...
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