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The old church on the green in 1933
This is one of my favourite pictures of the old parish church.It was taken by F. Blyth and appeared in A Short History of Chorlton-cum-Hardy written by J. D. Blyth in 1933.Now at present I don’t know...
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Tomorrow ............... 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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Walking Cornbrook and on till morning part 5 ............... rear wall of...
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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Mile By Mile, travelling our railways in 1947
“The object of this book is to encourage the passenger to anticipate his progress, and to enable him to know to a nicety, what he next will see from the window at any and every stage of the journey....
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In a very different Berseford Square
I have to thank Steve Bardrick for the collection of pictures of Woolwich he kindly agreed to share with me.Part of the pleasure of looking at them is that they remind me of the Woolwich I remember...
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Buying a TV from Park Wireless in the August of 1951
I am looking at an advert for Park Wireless a company which sold electrical goods across south Manchester including Chorlton.* The year is 1951 and therein is the first hint that the advert will...
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Another Chorlton clay pipe, a mystery and a chance to find out who owned it...
Now here is a little bit of a mystery.This is a clay pipe which Steve found on Nicholas Road.He sent me the image after a recentstory I posted on a similar pipe which I found in our front garden.*Now...
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A history of Didsbury in just 20 objects number 1 ........... a bus garage
The story of Didsbury in just twenty objects, chosen at random and delivered in a paragraph.This is all that remains of our bus garage which was opened in 1926. Since the beginning of the last century...
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Four years telling the stories of Chorlton in words and pictures
I am not a great one for anniversaries which for someone who spends his time writing about the past is all a bit odd, but there are some that are well worth dusting down and bringing back out for...
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Walking Cornbrook and on till morning part 6 ............... wall of...
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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Bell Water Gate, 1977 a little bit of that lost Woolwich
Bell Water Gate, 1977Its official I have joined that legion of grumpy old people who lament the passing of the places I knew as a youngster.Now I could blame my friend Jean who has dug out and sent me...
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Walking Chorlton’s past ................. the day afterwards
Now late November can be an iffy time to do a history walk around Chorlton.The last sunny autumnal days are behind us, there is usually more than a nip in the air and if you are very unlikely there can...
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Walking Cornbrook and on till morning part 7 ....... canal just past...
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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A history of Didsbury in just 20 objects number 2 ........... the postcard...
The story of Didsbury in just twenty objects, chosen at random and delivered in a paragraph.In the June of 1911 young Bertha Geary aged just 13 of School Lane heard history and wrote to her friend “We...
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Looking for great grandfather .............. new online records available
Southern Cemetery, Manchester, 2015Now I spend my time searching for relatives and many others whose stories have been forgotten aor never told, so I am pleased that more cemetery records from south...
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More from Tony Goulding ...............Another War Memorial Anomaly in...
I recently wrote about the curious double entry on one of Chorlton-cum-Hardy's War Memorials, the one at Manchester Road, Methodist's and it is with a certain amount of trepidation that I now refer to...
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A bit of Little Italy on Warwick Road South ............ another project from...
Never ever be surprised at how little bits of our history can turn up in the most unexpected places.That said I am rarely surprised at Andy Robertson’s ability to turn up those bits of history which...
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Passing the parish church one Sunday in November and remembering Bradshaw's...
Now I like Ryan’s picture of Eltham Church which got me thinking about how a modern guide book would describe it.Back in 1861 Bradshaw’s Illustrated Handbook to London and its Environs reported that...
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"the gates of hell" at Didsbury with more than one tall story
Now I like the story of the Devil’s Gate at Didsbury.According to the local historian Fletcher Moss it referred to “the remnant of the village green in front of the inns where the cock fighting and...
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On Moss Lane West part 2 .............. Sunday November 22 2015
Sunday was a rare day in what had been a pretty awful week of driving rain, heavy winds and more rain with perhaps the only difference that sometimes the rain was heavy and at other times that fine...
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