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“No destitute child in the city need be without food and shelter” ....... the...
In 1912 Manchester was by any criteria a fine example of enterprise, innovation and success.It had built on its earlier history as a centre of textile production, diversified into engineering and with...
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Today at The Lloyds .......Your chance to ge a signed book of Chorlton pubs...
From 2 in the afternoon till 6, we will be in the pub signing that new book which can be purchased from us for just £14.99.
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A message to everyone at the Bulls Head Greengate, 1916 from MC
Now this picture of the Bulls Head will be familiar to many who have a fascination for Salford’s history.But it has left me perplexed. The message on the back is dated 1916 and signed M/C and just...
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On Church Parade outside the Royal Artillery at Woolwich in 1939
Now this would be a fascinating enough picture for any of us who know Woolwich but the date it was sent gives it an added interest.We are at a church parade outside the Royal Artillery Barracks and the...
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An unfamiliar photograph and a lost cottage
Sometimes you come across a picture which you know has rarely seen the light of day and yet must at one time have been familiar to everyone in the township. It’s of the parish church looking north from...
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Harold Morris of Eltham and Welling, a life lived out in service to the...
This is the young Harold Morris sometime in the early 1920s.It is a wonderful picture not least because it takes us into a lost world when milk was still marketed by small independent businesses and...
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Today ...........Manchester Remembering 1914-18 ......... at the Imperial War...
Today ................ another opportunity to meet the author and get a signed copy of Manchester Remembering 1914-18.*Sunday 11 am to 1 pm and again from 2 pm to 4 pm.**Manchester and the Great War,...
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The day Salford came to Southport
Here is another of those examples of the long reach of Salford.On the evening of August 21 1909 Mabel posted a message from Southport to her friend Miss Wingman of Churchtown in Southport.It was a...
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The story behind the poster ......... Manchester General Cemetery.
Now I am pretty convinced that there is always a story behind whatever you come across.An important notice in 1958That said I know I am skirting on the edge of my knowledge with the Manchester General...
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Outside the Red Cross Hospital in Sale in 1915 with a gramophone, a nurse and...
During the Great War the Red Cross established hospitals across the country to care for the wounded returning from the battlefield.They were the product of prewar planning, were opened in our cities,...
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Harold Morris of Eltham and Welling, a life lived out in service to the...
In that great sweep of history marked by revolutions, wars and natural disasters most of us will not even get a footnote in some long and detailed history of the 20th century.Ours are “little lives...
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One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 86 ......... looking for the...
The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.*Raphael, 1993It is still the case that even after all our children have...
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No Fear Here ............. reflections from Manchester on the London outrage
As my adopted city prepares for that concert today my thoughts are with London where I was born spent my youth and where many of my family live.I won’t attempt to write about the terrible incident,...
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1931 on Vine Street Kersal .........with a link to Manchester and Sheffield
Now here is one of those little mysteries which I know we will never quite get to the bottom of.The picture postcard is entitled Kersal from the Cliff and is a fascinating snap shot of the river and...
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Walking Well Hall in the April of 1844
Well Hall in 1746Walk along Well Hall Road which runs from the High Street north to Shooters Hill on a sunny day and it is a pleasant enough trip which starts with the church takes in the Tudor Barn...
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One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 87 ......... the smart meter
The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.*Reading the smart meter, 2017Now I wonder what Joe and Mary Ann would...
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At the Imperial War Museum North .......... stories behind the book nu 27...
An occasional serieson the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War*Now in the course of writing the book I put on record my thanks to a lot of people, from those like David Harrop...
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Tram 3022 ........ the one with the bee
Now I was only reading about the new tram which carried the busy bee emblem yesterday, and today Andy Robertson sent over a photograph of the very tram.So on the day after the concert which I...
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Celebrating the history of the Lloyds ........... with that new book on...
Now there are lots of ways of making new friends and a book signing is not a bad one, especially if its a book about pubs and bars and takes place in a pub.And yes this is another bit of outrageous...
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Down at Media City ........ no. 1
Now the weather and the light were against me but I was determined to take some pictures.I suppose the foreboding sky will have been a suitable backdrop of the Imperial War Museum North, but that is...
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