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What once we had in Chorlton but now you have to go to Sale ....Eyebrow Cottage
Eyebrow Cottage, 2014Now I rarely get down to Sale and so I have totally missed Eye Brow Cottage at 120 Cross Street.It was built between 1660 and 1680.The elaborate header bricks or "Eye Brows" over...
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Of trams and pubs and bandstands ......... down at Crich Tramway Village
Now yesterday I was at Crich Tramway Village with LCC tram number 1622 which Dad would have used from time to travel from New Cross to Westminster via the Embankment.Mother once told me of the time...
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Oswald Field, five cottages, a slice of rural Chorlton, and a bit of a...
I think this will be the last of the stories on Oswald Field.Over the last few days I have walked its field boundary, explored the five cottages and tried to discover something of the people who lived...
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A little bit of Australia in Eltham, the story of Yemmerrawanne and his death...
Rev Shaw Brooke's entry in the parish records, 1794“Yemmurrvonyea Kebarrah, a native of New South Wales, died May 18th 1794, supposed to be aged 19 years at the house of Mr Edward Kent.”It is not much...
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Watching Eltham change .............. nu 2 down at Court Yard
Now on a steamed up bus on the way to work Larissa still had time to record the developments down at Court Yard.And for those like me who live along way from where we grew up it's good to keep up with...
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When the Thames was a working river nu 3
It is just one of those simple things that as you get older there are more and more things you can use as a bench mark marking the passage of time.And this is one of them for while the painting dates...
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Back at Hulme Hall Road ........... one month on
Andy has called this his dolls house picture and you can see why.This was the state of the warehouse on Hulme Hall Road a little over a month and a but since that fire which led to its partial...
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Annie Morris, Lady Kirby and a neat little history lesson
Annie Morris circa 1900What connects a reward issued by the Lord Mayor of London at the height of the Whitechapel Murders with Avery Hill and Mrs Morris of Court Yard?This was the question I posed last...
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Tracking the history of Beaumont Road
Now if you want to dig deep into the history of a place deeds are a pretty neat start.Of course there are a few draw backs. First you have to own the house and secondly are prepared to be baffled by...
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Down at the New Cross Speedway with Stan Greatrex and the New Cross Rangers...
Now I never went to Speedway even given that while I was growing up the New Cross Speedway Track was not far from where we lived.Plenty of my friends did go and would sport the black and gold badge...
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See it before it goes ............ another bit of our industrial past soon to...
I maintain and I maintain most strongly that you can never get enough pictures of our industrial past especially when that bit of the past will not be with us for much longer.Now this bit of our past...
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Waking up to the day Chorlton was flooded .............. the Brook on an...
Now I know I shouldn’t have been surprised at seeing pictures of the Brook overflowing its banks earlier last month.They were posted on social network by Michael J Thompson who wrote , “we had a...
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Uncovering the story of Eltham's trams ........... and a bit more too
I have long had a fascination for trams and I have just bought Eltham and Woolwich Tramways which contains “a wealth of nostalgia with many previously unpublished photographs depicting street scenes...
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Sweet Thames Flow Softly*
The Thames Flows Down is another of those wonderful children's books written in the 1950s.It was the companion to A Valley Grows Up by Edward Osmond.*The Thames Flows Down was written by Laurie...
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When a ghost sign might just not be what it seems ......... out in...
Now here is a detective story and this one will have the lot.It started with a holiday in Bridlington where Ron spotted and recorded two ghost signs which are the names and adverts for long gone...
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With Alice McIlwrick, fighting elections in the 1920s in Chorlton and Didsbury
Alice McIlwrick should be remembered. She was the first Labour candidate to contest a local election here in Chorlton in the November of 1928 and she did very well gaining 14% of the vote.* But beyond...
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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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Railway Terrace and the changing shops of Chorlton
Now It is an awful confession but Railway Terrace on the corner of Manchester Road and Buckingham Road was until fairly recently just a stop on the bus into Chorlton from town.I became aware of the...
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More stories of MACFADYEN MEMORIAL CHURCH from Tony Goulding
Rev. Alfred Allan LeeA great tragedy occurred whilst this man was serving as the minister at McFadyen’s Memorial Congregational Church standing on the corner of Barlow Moor Road and (then) Holland...
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Looking for photographs of New Cross, Peckham and pretty much any where in...
Now when you no longer live in an area you write about sourcing images can be a problem.After all we left Lausanne Road in the spring of 1964 when I was just 14 for Eltham and five years later I went...
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