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Walking past the Montague Arms, on Queens Road
Now the Monatgue Arms is one of the places that does not loom large in my memory.I would have passed it regularly enough, given that Lausanne Road where we lived was on the route via Queens Road and...
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At number 78 Barlow Moor Road with the Chapman family in 1904
I am back on Barlow Moor Road at what was once number 78 and is now 503.*This was one of those big houses at this end of Chorlton. It had thirteen rooms and that magnificent tower which marked it off...
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The Post Office on Shooters Hill
A short series looking at the story behind the picture.We are on Shooters Hill at number 53, and today it is a convenience store but once it a post office, and I am indebted to my friend Jean who...
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Walking in a cemetery ........... with thoughts of Nunhead
Now I have been wandering through Nunhead Cemetery with the help of a set of pictures taken by Adrian Parfitt, and decided to close with this one which I have to confess is a bit of a cheat.It was...
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Growing up in New Cross nu 5 off to Samuel Pepys
The one sure certainty of failing the 11 plus was that you went to a secondary modern school.Beginning Samuel Pepys, 1961Not of course that this over surprised me.My mother had been told by my year 6...
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Past the Four Banks and up to Redgate Farm in the summer of 1900
Looking across the Isles, 1882This is another one of those walks I would like to have taken if only to set the contrast from what I would have seen just fifty years earlier in the summer of 1853.Now I...
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Sorting Eltham's letters at Blackheath in 1830
A short series looking at the story behind the picture.Back in the 1977 my friend Jean gave a talk on the postal service in Eltham during the 19th century which she later turned into a set of articles...
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On a summer's day in Piccadilly Gardens in 1955
Now this just captures a carefree summer’s day in Piccadilly Gardens back in the 1950s.It was taken in 1955 and pretty much has the lot.The two stylish young women attract some but perhaps not that...
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The Yanks came again to Saddleworth accompanied by lots of people
Well the Yanks arrived again in Saddleworth and a lot more people, proving that such events are both popular and useful.No more so than my old mate David Harrop whose collection of memorabilia from...
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Growing up in New Cross nu 5 .......... a heap of electoral rolls and the...
Miss Elsie Mabel Carly lived in our house on Lausanne Road for just under half a century.Lausanne Road, 1953The family were there sometime around 1904 and moved out in 1951 when my dad and mum bought...
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The sandwich board ............ a century apart
Advertising the Palace Theatre, 1896Once the man with a sandwich board was a common site on the streets of all our towns and cities.And then sometime after the last world war they seemed to disappear....
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The story of one house in Peckham number 38 ............ the Cubs, Bob a Job...
The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Now for obvious reasons I have no memory of being baptized in All Saints Hatcham Park.But...
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Heating and hammering at the smithy on Eltham High Street in the June of 1840
The smithy close to the present library, 1909I like the way that Eltham is revealing more of its past.Now I say Eltham as if it was a person which it isn’t but in the last few months I rediscovered my...
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A Wilbraham Road now lost to living memory
The junction of Wilbraham Road with Albany and Corklands Roads, circa 1903-13This is one of those scenes of Chorlton which has pretty much vanished from living memory. So while there will be many...
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Summer in the City
Now for no particular reason other than I took them and they are of Manchester, here is a short series celebrating places I like.All have appeared before and some a long time ago.Pictures; around...
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Growing up in New Cross nu 6 .................. Muffin the Mule, Sunday Night...
Now I belong to that first telly generation which means I can remember a time when there were only two television channels which shut down by 10.30 and offered up a mix of quiz programmes, home grown...
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What we have lost ....... inside the Corn Exchange
Now I am guessing this wonderful structure has gone.It was in the Corn Exchange beside Exchange Square, and I always thought it was an innovative way to fill a space.Added to that I rather enjoyed...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 39 ............ a garden shed a story
Thestory of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Now I don’t usually do then and now stories but the tale of our shed has something more than...
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At the toll-gate on the Lee-Eltham Road with Jean Gammons
Now it has been some time since I have included a story from my friend Jean and so here is a short piece on the toll-gate on the Lee-Eltham Road which was part of a talk she gave to the Eltham...
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A little of what we have lost, Wilbraham Road in 1955
Sometimes I think it is the more recent photographs of Chorlton which are the more fascinating, and in their way the more revealing of how we lived.And so I am drawn to this one of Wilbraham Road...
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