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Revisiting The Vintage Beauty Parlour on Kingshill Road and a lot more history
Now I always planned to revisit that corner shop on Kingshill Road partly because it has history and also because it is back doing what all corner shops should do which is to be interesting and offer...
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Back with Mrs Elsie May Crump, a bit of broadcasting history and Chorlton
Now I am pleased that a lot more people are going to read about Mrs Elise May Crump and her part in a little bit of broadcasting history.*In October 1946 she had appeared on the first broadcast of...
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Down in Castlefield
Now for no particular reason other than I took them and they are of Manchester, here is a short series celebrating places I like.All have appeared before and some a long time...
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Painting New Cross ..... my swimming baths
Now the other day I was telling Peter how I learnt to swim at Laurie Grove and how I still carry a small scar on my chin from the Boys Baths. That scar was the result of being too clever and...
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Walking in the City
Now for no particular reason other than I took them and they are of Manchester, here is a short series celebrating places I like.And yest this one is Salford, not Manchester.All have appeared before...
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Playing on the Nine Fields, all the way from Well Hall to Kidbrook
Kidbrook Lane in 1872 with the Nine Fields to the northNow I know there will be people who know of the existence of the Nine Fields just beyond Well Hall out towards Kidbrook.But I think there will not...
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Finding your way home ............... finger posts old and new and a challenge
Now here is another of those stories focusing on what we may be losing.Over the last few months I have wandered over a collection of old street furniture from water troughs, those red telephone kiosks...
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Another of our lost roads, a music school and that car park
The two remaining houses, 2014There will be few in Chorlton who will remember that once Manchester Road crossed Wilbraham Road and continued down through what is the car park and on past the...
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Painting Well Hall and Eltham ....... Nu 4 our house on Well Hall Road
An occasional series featuring buildings and places I like and painted by Peter Topping.Now there had to come a time when I decided my bit of Well Hall Road should be recorded.It came out of a...
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Trenches in Piccadilly ............ a New Use for the Old Infirmary Site June...
Looking across to the old Infirmary site, date unknownNow Piccadilly Gardens continues to excite a wealth of feelings from those who miss the old sunken gardens and have no love for that concrete slab...
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The picture of Annie Magee on Hawthorn Lane and that young Chorlton bandsman
Now if there is a simple lesson about old photographs it’s that you should never take them at face value.So here is a picture from Peter McLoughlin's collection of family pictures which shows his...
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Down in the Northern Quarter
I like the Northern Quarter.The name may be new and there is lots of new development but there are still a shed load of quirky shops and interesting things to see.Location; the Northern Quarter,...
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What was lost is found ............... remembering Alan Brown
I wish I had known Alan Brown longer than I did.Alan Brown at Brookburn School, 2011We got to know each other just a handful of years ago but quickly discovered a common fascination for Chorlton’s...
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Just so you don't get lost........ another story from Barny
from Ogilby's strip map, 1675 Now, you probably own some sort of Sat-Nav (satellite navigation), to help you find your way around. Not so long ago these systems were installed in the dash of many new...
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Chorlton by night nu 1 ............. Oswald Road School
Now this is one of those pictures which needs me to add very little.We are looking across at Oswald Road School pretty much as it has looked for a century.Andy Robertson took the image on an early...
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Summer in the City
Now for no particular reason other than I took them and they are of Manchester, here is a short series celebrating places I like.All have appeared before and some a long time ago.Location;...
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Remembering magic days in Alexandra Park
So yesterday I got to make the connection between a steel band, a 19th century flag pole and heap full of memories of days spent in a park with a picnic.It was the first of a series of meetings with...
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Painting Well Hall and Eltham ....... nu 6 outside the Park Tavern
Now I have been a wee bit harsh about Passey Place in the past.You turn off into it from the High Street and once you have passed the old post office you are flanked by drab modern buildings with the...
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Voting in the General Election at Eltham in the November of 1837
In the November of 1837 the electorate of Eltham went to the polls. Well Hall in 1844 with Well Hall House at 382All 67 of them, which if my sums are correct represented just over 13% of the adult...
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Painting Well Hall and Eltham ....... nu 5 Eltham Church
An occasional series featuring buildings and places I like and painted by Peter Topping.Now our parish church is one of those landmarks in Eltham withhistory.*Long before Burton’s became McDonald’s it...
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