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Snaps of Manchester number 4 Piccadilly in the late 1920s
Now I can’t be sure but I think we are looking at Piccadilly sometime before 1932.It is difficult to be sure but I don’t think that the Ryland’s Building which is now Debenhams’s is there near the...
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When Harold married Alma in the April of 1928 at Dartford
I am looking at two images which are now 88 years old.This was the wedding celebrations of Harold Morris and Alma Minnie Shove in April 1928.We all have pictures like this but many of them will be...
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My Manchester
My Manchester, pictures without the words, ............ Looking out onto Exchange Square, 2013Picture; Looking out on Exchange Square,2013 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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A little bit of continuity on Chorlton Green
Now I like the way that some buildings almost return to what they once were.floral affair, 2017So this is number 15 Chorlton Green which has been floral affair from 2015 and a century and a bit ago was...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester ........... nu 3 how things change
I recently included much the same view along the river in the 1850s by the artist C W Clennell.And now I am back in 2016.Location SalfordPicture; the river and the bridge, 2016 from the collection of...
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Lost images of Whalley Range part 3 the Whalley Hotel
I only ever once visited the Whalley Hotel which I think was sometime around the summer of 1975.There was never any particular reason for this other than it was always somewhere I passed on the bus...
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St Ann's Square, Snaps of Manchester nu 6
I have to say that there often seems to be building work on the corner where Old Bank Street runs into St Ann’s Square.And so it as when this snap was taken sometime I think in the 1930s.Back then the...
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Painting Well Hall and Eltham ....... nu 7 tram sheds and missing the tram
An occasional series featuring buildings and places I like and painted by Peter Topping.The Tram sheds, 2017 painted from a photograph, 1977Now I always took the bus shelters for granted after all they...
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Remembering the meadows in the 1940s ..... the power of oral testimony
The Meadows as they were“I was interested to hear what you said about the way the Corporation tipped rubbish on the meadows. You see I was at school in the 1940s and we did our cross country runs from...
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Wednesday May 24 ................. My Manchester
We will all have our own slightly different feelings about the events of Monday night and yesterday.For all of us it will begin with the loss of life and the impact that those deaths will have on...
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On King Street, dodging the cars
Most of the images we see of Manchester in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were the work of professional photographers. They focused on the popular bits and sold them on to the postcard...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester ........... nu 4 two for one
Now I am the first to admit the lighting is all wrong and I suspect the composition is iffy but its a picture of a bridge.Which actually contains two ....... one behind the other and three if you count...
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Painting Well Hall and Eltham ....... nu 8 ....... magic days and evenings by...
An occasional series featuring buildings and places I like and painted by Peter Topping.The Barn, 2017I am guessing we all have our favourite memories of the Tudor Barn and the Pleasaunce.Mine run from...
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The mystery of the pub sign on Chorlton Green
Actually it is less a mystery and more just an opportunity to show off two pub signs from the same pub separated by just a few decades.The first was taken by Tony Walker in the mid 1970s and if you can...
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The bridges of Salford and Manchester .......... nu 5 the Irwell Street Bridge
Now I have always taken this one for granted which is a shame because it is not only a fine looking bridge but stands out on the river.Location; SalfordPicture; the Irwell Street Bridge, 2016 from the...
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Revisiting the Great War nu 1 ............ who spoke in favour?
That image of people cheering the news that we were at war in August 1914 and turning out on the streets pretty much sums up what we think was the mood of the country facing its first major continental...
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Pictures from a family album, Dartford 1928
I have to confess I am drawn to old family photographs.Nor does it matter that they are not my family. In fact very few of ours have survived. Now this may be simply bad luck or a tendency that runs...
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Waiting for the rush hour at Oxford Road ............
Now I have a soft spot for Oxford Road Station and like plenty of others I have taken more than a few pictures of that reflection of the Refuge Building.I can’t remember exactly when or why I was there...
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The Southern Hotel and the fields to the south of Mauldeth Road West from the...
An occasional series dedicated to looking down at Chorlton from the air. Here is the Southern Hotel in 1933.Despite the presence of fields and barns, the development of Corporation housing hints at the...
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Revisiting favourite places with a twist of history ............... nu 1 Rome
An occasional series which just aims to reflect old places and places with a story.We were not far from the Colosseum wandering the back streets of Rome.Picture; Rome, 2013, from the collection of...
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