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Before the Beetham Tower ...... one of those lost Manchester scenes
Trafford Street and Deansgate, March 2003We are on Deansgate, looking towards Trafford Street and this is one of those lost scenes of Manchester.It is one I have been familiar with for over thirty...
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With Charlie and Chippy in bombed out London on February 5th 1941 and the...
On leave , 1941There is something quite sobering in realizing that events which were still fresh in many people’s memories when I was growing up are now 75 years old.For my generation the Battle of...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 11 ............ down in Deptford and...
The storyof one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Now if you have to go swimming I can’t think of anywhere better than the baths at Deptford...
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This day 200 years ago .......... the first day of peace across Europe
The Waterloo MedaqlBy now Europe was getting the news that "the Corsican Ogre’s 100 days were over.The combined forces of Britain and Prussia had stopped the French and finally the long wars with...
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Eltham Palace and Eltham People, revisiting a story
Now all too often when you come across books on Eltham Palace they concentrate quite rightly on the building, its history and the people of plenty who occupied the place.All of which is fine but begs...
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Lost views of Chepstow Street and the Peveril of the Peak, 1994
“I took this in 1996. I don't think you've seen it before. You won't be able to view the Peveril from this angle anymore. When re-viewing this photo just now I was rather (selfishly) hoping that that...
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Down on College Road looking for Beech Hurst and Doenberg
Now I am back with gateposts and the stories they have to reveal.Beech Hurst Close, September 2014Andy Roberston recorded this one on College Road earlier this month. Today it leads to Beech Hurst...
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Our tram terminus
It’s a personal opinion but I don’t think our tram terminus has fared so well.The lavatories are permanently closed the office building looks a little knocked about and it is the sort of place that you...
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Almost finally the last of the building which was Blockbusters, E Boydell &...
Now there is something pretty final about these pictures of the old Blockbuster building.Work to demolish it began last week and yesterday evening all that was left was a pile of bricks, a bit of wall...
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Twin Cities in Past and Present: Two Day Conference June 26-27 2015
Now this is a conference I am looking forward to. Sunlight House, 2014The Manchester Centre for Regional History is hosting a two-day Conferenceon Twin Cities to be held at the Manchester Centre for...
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Round About A Pound A Week ......... London life and London Poor ..... 1913
Round About A Pound A Week,Now back in 1893 when Charles Booth made his London poverty maps our house on Lausanne Road was shown as “fairly comfortable, good ordinary earnings” while behind on St...
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The continuing story of the Waterloo Medal and the two names engraved on its rim
The Waterloo MedalI am back with the Waterloo Medal and a story which is one of those that if you made it up people wouldn’t believe you.The medal was issued in 1816 to every Officer, Non-Commissioned...
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So where is this hole in the ground?
It is a lesson in not only naming a picture but giving some detail. I should know I have shed loads of photographs which might as well have been taken on the moon because I never bothered to date them...
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Somewhere in Chorlton in 1929
I doubt that many of us could identify the road at first glance. It is 1929, and the houses have been up for about forty years and are still in that first relatively new phase before the roof and...
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Looking into the future of Eltham High Street in 1975
The High Street in 1910Now I don’t normally go in for then and now pictures but I have made an exception with these two images from a 1975 document issued by the Council.*The book was part of a...
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Walking down Kender Street looking for the cocoa works and finding a lost cinema
It will be something well over half a century since I last walked down Kender Street and even now it’s the smell of cocoa which is the first thing that comes to mind.Kender Street, 1872We lived at...
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Out in Blackpool and a picture to remember
I just like this picture.It was posted by Adge on facebook recently and shows his mum, her sister and a friend on a day out at Blackpool.Many of us will have similar pictures taken on a whim and kept...
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Eltham High Street in the summer of 1915 and again sometime in the 1960s
At first glance it looks familiar enough. We are looking at the parish church on a warm summer’s morning sometime in 1915.It is a picture I have grown to like and given that I have just bought the...
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Of floods and weirs and floating hay ricks
"It was," wrote Thomas Ellwood the local historian“no uncommon thing to see the great level of green fields completely covered with water presenting the appearance of a large lake , several miles in...
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Another day and another picture of the old Masonic Lodge on Edge Lane
I am so pleased that Andy Robertson has continued to follow the story of the old Masonic Lodge on Edge Lane.*Whenever it is featured on the blog it brings forth a shed full of memories, from people who...
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