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Searching for the Girls’ Friendly Society in that big house on St Clements...
At a church garden party, date unknownNow I would dearly like to know lots more about the Girls’ Friendly Society or for that matter the night a chap from the Town Hall came to talk on the sanitation...
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The Parade Pickford Lane, Bexleyheath
Now I don’t have a date for this picture, but I bet there will be someone who does.And I hope will also have some stories to tell us.So I shall just leave it at that, the Parade, Pickford Lane,...
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The Swiss and Italian Lakes, a coach tour for just £45 in 1965
Dad to the right in 1955My dad spent his whole working life in the holiday trade taking people of modest means on sightseeing tours of Britain and mainland Europe.In the age before cheap air travel...
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Discovering a little bit more about that Victorian Hotel on High Street
Now here is a bit of a story I hadn’t planned on but which has taken me back to theold Victorian Hotel on High Street opposite the Arndale.*It was once known as the Wheatsheaf became the Hogshead and...
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Who remembers getting near hypothermia at Peckham Rye Lido? .................
Catford Lido, similar to Peckham LidoPeckham Rye Common north, on East Dulwich Road, was the location of Peckham Lido, (the posh name for "open air swimming pool") opened by the London County Council...
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The story of that Victorian pillar box on Edge Lane
Now I like theses two pictures of that post-box on the corner of Edge Lane and Hampton Road.They were taken by Robert Williamson who asked if it was the oldest pillar box in Chorlton and I rather think...
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What was going on in Piccadilly Gardens on that summer’s day?
Now I make no apology about revisiting this picture of Piccadilly Gardens sometime in the 1950s.There was something going on and the event has eluded me.At first I just took the image at face value....
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Down in Deptford remembering J Stone and Co ............ another story from...
Does anyone remember (or used to work for J Stone and Co Engineering in Arklow Road, Deptford?From 1881 to 1969 the industrial estate was Stone’s engineering works. J. Stone & Co had been founded...
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Discovering more about the Great War ............... War Diaries on line from...
Now for anyone interested in the Great War here is a bit of good news which will make research just a bit easier.*Today he National Archives have just announced that the “diaries of 247 First World War...
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Saving a Century........... a major new photographic exhibition from the...
Now 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 photographs from their collection.It's...
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What we have lost ....... inside the Corn Exchange
Now I am guessing this wonderful structure has gone.It was in the Corn Exchange beside Exchange Square, and I always thought it was an innovative way to fill a space.Added to that I rather enjoyed...
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On Barlow Moor Road with a mystery
Now here is a puzzle.Leon's 2015This is Peter’s painting of Leon’s on Barlow Moor Road and like many I have been coming here for years.And each time I walk into the shop I ponder on the age of the...
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Looking at the Well Hall we have lost, Nell Gwynne's Cottages, 1908
Now I never tire of writing about Well Hall and in particular during the mid 19th century.This will always be one of those fascinating times for me when many of our small rural communities were about...
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Looking for pictures of Eltham in 2015
Now I came late to the Eltham Society ......... fifty years to be exact but I am in it now and wonder why it took so long to join.It really does do what it says “Preserving the past, Conserving the...
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Never throw away those children's treasures
Now I am on a roll and have begun searching for the history books I read as a child.Not that this is just a voyage into nostalgia although I have no doubt that is a factor.No this is about looking...
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A little bit of Naples in 1890 ..... part 1
A street in Naples circa 1890I am fascinated by street scenes and especially of those taken in the late 19th century of the poorer and rundown bits of our city.But as ever wanting to branch out I...
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Remembering the sounds of of south east London in the 1950s with Barny
I can recall that back in the 50's, the journeymen (and women) of the day would form an almost continuous stream of vendors, peddling all sort of wares, often from horse drawn carts stopping outside...
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Walking down Sidcup High Street in the August of 1961
Now it would be a full three years after this picture postcard of Sidcup High Street was sent before we settled in Eltham and a lot longer before I wandered down into Sidcup.Well Hall had pretty much...
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If its Tuesday it is Lake Garda ........ travelling by the hotel labels in...
Now I don’t even know if hotels still give away suitcase labels.If they don’t that is a shame because I am sitting beside some of the ones my dad collected in his years as a coach driver and they are...
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Lost in the attic .............. a new collection of photographs of...
This is Whitelow Road sometime in the early 20th century and with the picture comes one of those intriguing little stories.It is one of a collection of images which were donated to St Clements Church...
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