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Walking in Alexandra Park sometime around 1906 courtesy of Valentine's Snapshots
Now like many people I have fond memories of Alexandra Park and was pleased that it had recently had a makeover.*The entranceAnd no sooner had I finished writing about the park than my friend Ann sent...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 8 ........ George Carly of Lausanne...
The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*"After a fight", 1916George Carly and I were neighbours separated by just 40 years and...
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Outside the police station on Beech Road circa 1925
Trying to make sense of an old photograph is not always easy. But that is all part of the fun.Now the caption on this photograph of the police station on Beech Road has no date but the historian John...
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So what's happened to the Wagon & Horses in Sale since we last looked?
Now for those who remembered the Wagon and Horses in Sale, and for a lot more who passed it on their way to work, this is just an update.After centuries of serving up happy pints on sad Mondays, and...
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On the High Street in 1873
I have moved a little south from Well Hall and am wandering the High Street sometime in 1873.It is a scene we will return to in detail later.For now what strikes you perhaps more than anything is the...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 9 ........ that Roll of Honour in...
Replica Cenotaph, circa 1920Thestoryof one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Growing up in Lausanne Road in the 1950s was to be untouched by...
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Bombs on Egerton Road South memories of Geoff Williams
Revisiting a story.One of the things I really like about the blog is the way people share their memories with me.So after I had posted the stories about Chorlton’s bomb maps,* Geoff got in touch and...
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Unique pictures of Manchester after the bombing, ......... July 1996
I am in Manchester in the July of 1996 just a few weeks after the Manchester bomb which been left by the Provisional IRA in a van on Corporation Street. Now the story of the bomb attack and the...
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When we had a piano shop on Beech Road
Sometimes a picture captures a moment which with hindsight allows you to see that things were just about to change. Here is another of those photographs taken by Tom McGrath in the middle 1980s. I...
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In Manchester voting in the Parliamentary election of 1844
“This day may be characterised as one of great activity, bustle and preliminary preparation, on both sides, for the completion of the canvas, and for bringing up the voters”*Manchester Guardian, May...
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Back on Pound Place a long time before now
Pound Place was always somewhere I tended to walk past and looking down it now I can’t even remember what stood on the site of the Council Offices.Ihave written about it in the past not least because...
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Rediscovering a lost adolescence ...... attending a secondary school in the...
It was early September 1961 and along with twenty or so others from Edmund Waller Junior School I was in the Annexe of Samuel Pepys Secondary Modern on Old James Street in Nunhead.Now I can’t be sure...
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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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Andy’s 1953 invitation to a Coronation Party and that simple truth...
I don’t remember Coronation Day.To be fair I was only four but all those stories of going round to watch it on a neighbour’s telly of the street parties and the weeks of pre coronation expectation are...
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Mrs Cordingley at Jackson’s Boat up in front of the magistrates for “selling...
The old bridge and pub, 1881Now I wonder how Mrs Cordingley felt after the magistrates threw out an alleged breach of the Licensing Act.It was June 1876 and she had been called up in front of the bench...
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All you ever wanted to know about Eltham's history but never knew who to ask
Eltham has a rich and varied history ranging from a medieval palace and Tudor Barn, some fine old houses, the historic Progress Estate and the impressive Sevendroog Castle high on Castle Woods.All of...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 10............ Peck’s fish paste...
The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Now Peck's meat and fish pastes were something I grew up with.They came in small glass jars...
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On Egerton Road again
It’s another picture of Egerton Road, this time looking east towards Wilbraham Road, and dates from the beginning of the 20th century.In its way it is typical of the new build which was beginning to...
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What will be the fate of Mr & Mrs Helm's fine home on the corner of Zetland...
Mr & Mrs Helm's house in 2015I just wonder what Mr and Mrs Helm would have made of the fate of their fine house on the corner of Zetland and Sandy Lane.The house dates from around 1907 and William...
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"I had been bull ward in the bull ring, and once kept one of the gamest bulls...
Now every so often you come across accounts of the bull baiting that went on in the township. The Bowling Green late 19th centuryThe stories usually appear on a slow week in one of the local...
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