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The way we lived in 1949 Part 7
An occasional series showing adverts in the year I was born.It was ten years since the last world war began and only 4 years since it ended. And reflecting on that decade Picture Post issued a special...
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Discover Chorlton’s past this Sunday by walking our history
The walk will start at the Horse and Jockey at 2pm on Sunday November 22 and finish at 3 at the Edge on Manchester Road where you can enjoy a bowl of soup, bread roll and a muled beverage in the...
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Wandering down Court Yard letting the magic wash over you
When I was growing up the area around the Palace was a pretty magical place.*Of course the old hall was only open at certain times but that just meant you were forced back to wander down Court Yard and...
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Walking from Cornbrook ..... a picture a day part 1 ... starting out
Now I have decided to follow one of Andy Robertson’s walks from Cornbrook. It’s an area which has been much neglected but is on the cusp of change.I could go in to detail about the history of the...
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Living at 523 Barlow Moor Road in the 1940s
I am back with the memories of my friend Ann who grew up in a big house on Barlow Moor Road in the 1940s and 50s.Her parents ran an undertaker’s business and along with descriptions of the house there...
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Looking for four people and discovering Willow Bank Hospital on Moss Lane...
Four young people, circa 1914I doubt we will ever know who these four people are and even getting a date will be next to impossible.But there is a chance that we can identify the hospital and that will...
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The New Inn at the Market Place ............ the bit of Buxton I missed
Now I thought I knew Buxton pretty well, after all I have visited the Opera House, sat in the gardens and even collected my share of water from St Ann’s Well.But until Peter showed me his painting of...
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The way we lived in 1949 Part 9
An occasional series showing adverts in the year I was born.It was ten years since the last world war began and only 4 years since it ended. And reflecting on that decade Picture Post issued a special...
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Walking Cornbrook and on till morning part 2 ............... soon to be gone
Now I have decided to follow one of Andy Robertson’s walks from Cornbrook. It’s an area which has been much neglected but is on the cusp of change.I could go in detail about the history of the place...
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The Feathers on Barlow Moor Road, from a pint in 1959 to a packet of salad 57...
I can’t really decide whether I mourn the loss of the old Feathers or accept that its present use as a mini supermarket was a “good thing.”Food, wine and the other convenience things, 2014Now I say...
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Crossing the river at Woolwich
Growing up in Eltham meant that you were never far from the River.But this was the working part of the Thames and not that pretty bit admired by tourists or the picturesque section further up river...
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Pictures from an Eltham bus
The top deck of a London bus has to be a pretty neat way of seeing the world below.And when it is the same bus at about the same time every day then you have got yourself a project.All you need is a...
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The way we lived in 1949 Part 8
An occasional series showing adverts in the year I was born.It was ten years since the last world war began and only 4 years since it ended. And reflecting on that decade Picture Post issued a special...
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Pictures of Eltham I wish I had taken ................ down by the Palace
You can never get enough pictures of Eltham and so here is one from Ryan which he sent up to me yesterday.For those of us who left Eltham a long time ago pictures like this one are a link with where we...
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Walking Cornbrook and on till morning part 3 ............... St Georges...
Now I have decided to follow one of Andy Robertson’s walks from Cornbrook. It’s an area which has been much neglected but is on the cusp of change.I could go in detail about the history of the place...
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Searching for my great uncle Roger and thinking about British Home Children
I have no idea if my great uncle Roger ever married or if he had children or even if he stayed in Canada.Middlemore report on great uncle Roger, 1915He was migrated in the care of Middlemore who were...
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Mr Gratrix's clay pipe lost in our garden in 1845
The pipe found in the garden, 2014It is not much of a piece of history but I found it in our front garden which makes it special and takes me back to sometime in the 19th century.It is a bit of clay...
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At Victoria Station ............... today and everyday ....... remembering...
I am pleased at the way the authorities have imaginatively treated the archway at Victoria Station through which thousands of men passed on their way to the battlefields of the Great War.For years the...
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Walking Cornbrook and on till morning part 4 ............... canal side wall...
Now I have decided to follow one of Andy Robertson’s walks from Cornbrook. It’s an area which has been much neglected but is on the cusp of change.I could go in detail about the history of the place...
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Remembering Tower Bridge
Now like many Londoners I have to say that Tower Bridge is an iconic building.It remains an impressive piece of engineering, is instantly recognizable and brings back shed loads of memories.For me...
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