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Our tram terminus
It’s a personal opinion but I don’t think our tram terminus has fared so well.The lavatories are permanently closed the office building looks a little knocked about and it is the sort of place that you...
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So were you in the Eltham Hill Gaumont on Sunday September 12 1965?
Now you pretty much know it’s time to get a life when you go looking for the date for a film listing for the Eltham Hill Gaumont.Eltham Hill Gaumont, 1998The listing was posted recently by Kath May and...
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Another station another town
I don’t know whether it was the sun or the promise of Florence to come but at 8 o’clock on a Tuesday morning Viareggio station seemed a pretty good place to be.Now I like train stations and this one...
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A century and a bit of your front room
Now I am fascinated by the idea of taking one house and telling its story over a century and a bit.And it is a project which has led to three different sets of stories on the three places I have called...
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A kiss is just a kiss ......... postcards from Italy 1918
Now I have been thinking of the contribution made by the Italian community here in Manchester to the Great War and remembered this postcard from the collection of David Harrop.It was sent by Fred to...
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On Chapel Street with a pub question ................ another Salford pub story
Now I don’t do pub quizzes.The Rovers Return, 2014I get stumped at even the easiest of challenges like“what connects Chapel Street in Salford, with an English Admiral and a long running and much loved...
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Barlow Moor Road on a sunny morning sometime in the 1930s
We are on Barlow Moor Road sometime in the 1930s on what looks to be a sunny morning.Of course there is no way of knowing whether it is during the week or the weekend but the awning on the shop by the...
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On Deansgate where it joins Blackfriars Street in the 1920s
The corner of Blackfriars Street and Deansgate has never been a popular one for photographers.Now I know this because I have counted just three on the digital archive of the City and can think of just...
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Remembering those on our war memorial
The second in a series where I revisit stories about Eltham and the Great War© Rod AlldayI have been thinking about the contribution Eltham made to the Great War.*And a little later in the day I...
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Salford buildings that tell a story ........ part 3 Mrs Burke's beer shop on...
It is amazing what little bits of history you come across when you just set off wandering across the twin cities.Bank Place, 2014This is the corner of Bank and Encombe Place and it is somewhere you...
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Snaps of Manchester number 5 ... in Albert Square with trams and horses
Of all of the snaps of Manchester I have featured this is one of my favourites.We are in Albert Square sometime between the late 1920s and early 30s and we are at that cross over moment when horse...
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On Wilbraham Road in the spring of 1913
Now I tried standing in the road at this exact spot yesterday and failed dismally. It is that stretch of Wilbraham Road just past the old railway bridge at the corner of Buckingham Road, heading out...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester ....... nu 1 Blackfriars Bridge...
Now of course it does really depend on which way you cross the bridge.But I am not a pedant.And I am not inclined to add anything more, save to say it is another by the artist Mr C W Clennell who...
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So what is the story behind the tram on Well Hall Road, one sunny spring day?
Now there is a fine line between nostalgia and remembering the past.The first pretty much takes you nowhere and often distorts the past by making it seem somehow better than it was.On the other hand...
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Lost images of Whalley Range part 1 the cinema
I am on Upper Chorlton Road in 1960 with A.H. Downes who took a lot of pictures of the area.In the distance you can just make out the Whalley Hotel and the junction with Brooks Bar beyond.But what...
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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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Snaps of Manchester number 7 ....... the Town Hall and the Cathedral in the...
Now if you live in Manchester or like me claim it as your adopted city the chances are that you will have taken a picture of the Town Hall.It was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and finished in 1877, and...
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A deli called Buonissimo, Cafe on the Green and the story of what Beech Road...
Now I wish I had a picture of Cafe on the Green.Out on Beech Road, circa 2007It was the first of the wave of restaurants that set Beech Road off on what it is today.But I never bothered at the time to...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester ......... nu 2 Victoria Bridge,...
Now there is not much more to say. It is the work of C W Clennel sometime in the 1850s.But there is more.And for that I am indebted to Alan who quick as a flash, added that"Haha, I beg to differ...
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Lost images of Whalley Range part 2 the petrol pumps
I wonder when these petrol pumps on Upper Chorlton Road were taken away.They were recorded by A.H.Downes in the summer of 1960 and were on the site of the furniture store.In an age of big computer...
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