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Telephones Boxes I have known ............. part 7 down at Central Ref having...
Now it’s been a few weeks since I featured a telephone Kiosk, so here area a pair from just outside Central Ref.Back in the late 60's and early 70's I used them a lot.Mainly it was to track down a new...
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Christmas Postcards
This was sent on December 24th 1906 at 11.30 and given the frequent collections and deliveries would have arrived on the same day.There was no message but perhaps the caption was enough. The...
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A day in December on our High Street ................. nu 5 the Eltham Grill
Now if you still live where you grew up the chances are that you take it all for granted.For those of us who long ago moved away from Eltham that is something we can’t do.So here is the last of the...
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Snaps of Chorlton No 4 Bringing down the chimney of the Queen and Pasley...
An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton.I can’t remember exactly when this was but I reckon it was in the 1990s and points to that simple observation that much of...
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Hardy, lonely outpost on the edge of the township
Hardy is that bit of Chorlton-cum-Hardy that most people are vague about. It stretches east from the village and follows the river up past Hardy Lane and was a lonely outpost on the edge of the...
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Thank you
Now this is a thank you.A thank you to all those who have read the blog, passed on comments, offered up fresh memories and pictures and especially all those who have told their own story.Along the way...
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On Christmas Day with presents from the 1950s
Dinky toy, circa 1955Now I doubt that any one will be beating their way to a computer today and the readership of the blog will take a dip.Nevertheless as you are sitting back amongst the discarded...
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Christmas Day 1959 with the Swift Annual Nu 4
This is the third of those comic annuals produced by the Hulton Press in the 1950s.Swift like its companions, Eagle, Girl and Robin aimed to provide a mix of adventure stories, practical activities and...
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A little bit of gentle humour in 1903
Now I thought about digging out a Victorian Christmas card given the date, but I have done those already in the past and anyway Christmas is pretty much covered where ever you look, so instead here is...
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What did Mrs Wood of Eltham Lodge do during the day?
Eltham Lodge from the front, 2000I wonder how Anna Wood spent her days in Eltham Lodge.She was a woman of some wealth and standing in the community and there is plenty of information on how her class...
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Hardy, lonely outpost on the edge of the township
Hardy is that bit of Chorlton-cum-Hardy that most people are vague about. It stretches east from the village and follows the river up past Hardy Lane and was a lonely outpost on the edge of the...
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A not so festive request ................ in the event of being bombed out...
I cannot think how it must have felt to have sat down and planned for the unthinkable.But across the city and across the country that was what people were being asked to do in the event that their home...
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"A Pearl of Girl" ........... a picture postcard from 1912
Now as far as I know there is no connection between Eltham and the young woman staring back at us.Of course it is possible that the picture postcard was sold locally or may even have been sent to...
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Ours was a young community.... stories of Public Health
I think it must be the oldest picture of Chorlton children in the collection and I guess it was taken at the old school on the green. Even so when it was taken child mortality had improved and these...
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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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On Needham Avenue watching out for the first cakes from Parker's bakery
Now I am back with that building on Needham Avenue.Like many people I had often pondered on its origins, and only recently discovered it had been built by a baker who gave his name to part of what is...
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The not so different bits of where we live, part 4 ............. Blackheath
Now I am always intrigued at those more recent photographs of where we live.So while pictures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are fascinating often everything is so different that it is...
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Down at Eltham Palace in the summer of 1958
Now I am back at Eltham Palace, a place that first captured my imagination back in 1964 and continues to do so.*This is the cover to the 1958 Ministry of Works Official Guide-book price One Shilling.It...
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Of a time between Christmas and New Year .............. Lausanne Road 1958
We have reached that in between time, by which I mean that time after the presents have been opened and before the New Year bash begins.That said back in Lausanne Road there was no long break from...
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When pop music was Saturday Club at home in Well Hall
Saturday Club on the Light Programme still has the power to invoke fond memories.Now if you are my generation, born in the decade after the last World War who entered their teenage years to the sound...
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