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Mrs Crump of Chorlton-cum-Hardy and a piece of broadcasting history
Now this is another of those stories which has much more to offer.Back on January 1 1947 Mrs Elsie May Crump appeared on Woman’s Hour which had first aired three months earlier in October...
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Comics of the 1950s Part One
I still read the comics of my youth.To the despair and puzzlement of my partner I have sought out and bought entire sets of the comics and comic annual books. It is partly nostalgia but also they are...
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With the army in Grove Park near Eltham in 1916
Now at first glance there is little to connect these two pictures other than that the date for both is 1916 and the place is given as Grove Park.So to the detective bit. The A.C.S refers to the Army...
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Snaps of Chorlton No 7, a lost railway scene
An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton.I think we are sometime in the middle of 1960s and we are looking towards the Wilbraham Road bridge, beyond which is the...
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Saving a Century........... a major new photographic exhibition from the...
The Watts Warehouse, Manchester, 1851-6Now here is an exhibition not to be missed combining the story of the Victorian Society’s ongoing work to save our historic buildings with a fine collection of...
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Tomorrow ............... in Furness Vale
Drawing on his extensive collection of photographs, Chris Simpson takes us on a pictorial journey through the Goyt Valley.* Furness Vale Local History Society,...
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Looking inside great grandma’s house
The range complete with catIf like me you were born in the first half of the last century you will remember the old cooking ranges, the small gas stoves, and those brass light switches which long ago...
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Rational Rationing down at the gas showrooms with Miss Arscott of Whalley...
Now this is one of those little bits of history which deserves to be brought out and explored.It is another advert from my friend Sally who unearthed it from a back edition of the Manchester Evening...
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523 Barlow Moor Road, captured in a moment in time in 1960
Now I am back at 523 Barlow Moor Road where my friend Ann Love lived during the 1950s and 60s.It is still there today but has undergone conversion into flats.Over the last few months Ann has been...
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Comics of the 1950s Part Two
“No man can have in his mind a conception of the future for the future is not yet. But of the conceptions of the past we make a future.” Thomas Hobbs Which is a pretty neat way of summing up how comics...
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A pub by another name .............. the English Lounge on High Street
Now my old friend Walter was forever complaining about the way that some pubs seemed to change their name with regularity which both confused and annoyed him.The English Lounge, 2015It wasn’t so much...
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As others remember .............. Barny and the coach trips to Ewell
The second of an occasional series contributed by readers who also grew up in south east London.Here Barny remembers the school trips from Samuel Pepys to Ewell playing fields in the early 1960sWho...
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When the Markheaton Brook burst its banks, May 1932
My mother never spoke of the Sunday the centre of Derby flooded.It was 1932 and she would have been 12, but neither she nor my grandparents ever mentioned it.And yet at the time it was a big event,...
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A mystery cottage two lost brothers and a joint adventure, Chislehurst in...
Now I know there is a story behind this postcard of a cottage in Sidcup, just south of Eltham.The trouble is I am not yet sure what the story is.It is a picturesque enough cottage on Perry Street which...
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Reflections from a tram window ....... in St Peter’s Square in May 2014
Now here is one of those indulgent moments when I feature a picture I like and wonder if it will set off a series of pictures in the same vein.And it would be fun to have a story to go with it.So here...
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Looking for Miss Wright of Chorlton in 1928 ............. and hoping for more...
From the 1928 church Bazaar bookI wonder if I will ever find out anything about Miss Wright, President of the Girls’ Friendly Society.In the November of 1928 she was on the G.F.S. stall along with...
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A Roman street and Neapolitan pizza from Pizzeria I Decumani........ just...
We were in Naples and having chosen not to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum I suppose we felt more than a little guilty.Walking the Roman streetAfter all here were those two Roman towns frozen in that...
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Dark deeds in Nunhead and Blackheath ............... another story from Barny
My dear old dad used to mention, on more than one occasion, a notorious villain that resided in the idyllic hamlet of Nunhead, name of Charley Peace.Newspaper account, 1879It was only just a few years...
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That mysterious cottage in Chislehurst
The cottages in 1905We are back with that mystery cottage on Perry Street and the firm who marketed the postcard.It is a story that draws you in, presents endless avenues of research and still throws...
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Back on High Street ....... with memories of Bachers, a tram, a hand painted...
Now I like the way a story goes off on one.So on Monday I wroteabout the English Lounge on High Street which was once the Hogshead and long before that the Wheatsheaf Hotel.*It was a pub I have never...
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