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With Elizabeth Jane Hunt and three children in a two roomed house in Eltham...
This is the White Hart on a summer’s day in 1909, and it was going to be the subject of the story.Mrs Ann Nunn who ran the five roomed pub was 59 years old had been born in Suffolk and was a widow....
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Out in Chorlton with the football team in 1920
Now I say 1920 but it could equally be any time between then and 1922.And this I know because it comes from a collection of family photographs belonging to Peter McLoughlin.Unlike many collections...
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Nicolas Road ........... sometime between 1909 and 1914
What became known as “new Chorlton” but historically was Martledge is often overlooked when collections of pictures of where we live are published.After all by the early 20th century much of the area...
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Another story from Tony Goulding Oak House Farm .............revisited
In a previous post on this blog about the history of the land on which Arden Court and Oakhouse Drive now stand I referred to a royal visit by Princess Anne. The invitationAs a consequence of...
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So why can't I find pictures of the inside of the Swiss Tavern?
Now one of the things that continues to puzzle me is the absence of pictures of the inside of pubs.I suppose the grand professional photographers never saw it as a suitable subject while everyone else...
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The Four freedoms, Free Speech 6 Listening
A series of pictures taken in the 1990s debating the future of the National Health ServicePicture; from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Working the river
These will be the last pictures of that stretch of the Thames from London Bridge to Tower Bridge.Over the last few days I have indulged myself with images of the Thames when it was still worked with...
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Sarah Sutton, a life lived out on the Row
There are no pictures of Sarah Sutton, nor to my knowledge has she left a diary, or anything which might tell me about her life.She was born in 1821 in Withington and lived with her husband in a wattle...
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Who put fish finger sandwiches on the pub menu?
Now to my surprise I discovered that the fish finger is sixty years old.The first rolled off Bird’s Eyes production line in September 1955 although according to one source the Americans had beaten us...
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As others saw us ........... Eltham in 1858 according to the Melville & Co's...
Front cover of the Directory“Eltham is a small ancient but pleasant town and suburb of London adjoing Lee, eight miles S.E.from London, in the lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, Blackheath hundred, union of...
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A short cut, a lost house and buildings soon to vanish
For years it was just one of those short cuts you took if you wanted to leave Beech Road and get on to Crossland Road. I must have done it countless times. The gap between what had been J.Johnny’s and...
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Lost in Manchester, looking for Jackson's Market and a bag of potatoes in the...
Now here is a mystery which I haven’t been able to solve.We are on a Manchester street in 1914 and according to the caption the long queue is waiting to buy potatoes.I wish there was more but there...
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Tram jam, ........ waiting for the shift to end at Trafford Park
The caption is not over helpful. Just “Car 929, AEI Trafford Park.” But I guess we will be sometime in the late 1930s or ‘40s. The photograph perfectly captures that moment just after the end of the...
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Hailing a cab in Chorlton in the 1920s
Charles Croton was one of our taxi drivers and successful enough to have moved from horse and cab to motor vehicle by the 1920s and was listed in the telephone book by 1911.All of which makes him a...
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On Court Yard in Eltham at the Crown thirty-eight years ago
I remember going in the Crown on Court Yard just the once.Now this wasn’t because there was anything wrong with the place, just it was not one of my usual haunts, and that is a pity because over the...
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Walking back in time through Eltham, Charlton and Greenwich with the pictures...
Now anyone with an interest in Eltham’s history will have come across the pictures of Mr Llwyd Roberts. *They first appeared in the Kentish Times in the 1920s and 30s have reappeared in collections...
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Find a sixpence and lose ten bob ............. another adventure down on...
Find a sixpence and lose ten bob appealed to mother’s sense of morality and has stuck with me all my life.And I can point to more than a few times when that momentary feeling of being flush with luck...
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Walkng the streets of Manchester in 1830 in the company of J. T. Slugg and in...
I am on the streets of Manchester in the early 1830s in the company of J T Slugg* and in search of Antonio Preduzzi.Over the last few days I have been exploring that Italian connection with the city...
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When there was only Egerton Road
This is Egerton Road sometime in the early 20th century.We now know it as Egerton Road North and there by hangs the clue to its date.Now I am not sure at present when Egerton Road South was cut but it...
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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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