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Walking in Well Hall ............. the moat and barn
Now you can never get enough pictures of the Pleasuance and the old Tudor Barn.So with that in mind here are two from a collection Ryan took yesterday when as he says, "I was just walking around the...
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A pub, a name and Mr Wahlhauser
Now I really would like to have met Mr Louis Wahlhauser if only to get his side of the story about the Waldorf on Gore Street.According to one history the pub dates from the 1880s when he named it...
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Walking Well Hall Lane in 1843, all fields and not a lot else
I am back in Well Hall, or to be more accurate just north of what was Well Hall House and heading north through what is now the Progress Estate.What is now Well Hall Pleasaunce is down at the bottom of...
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Looking for our vanished history on the side of the road ........... the...
I have to say I can never get enough of street furniture or the history that they have to tell.Recently I pondered on the demise of the finger post and before that the water trough and the iconic red...
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“that plague has entered almost every house in the village which contains...
The April and May of 1886 were anxious times for any in the township with children for we were in the grip of a measles epidemic. This according to one resident “has been ranging for many weeks now”...
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Passing the time ............... the glass of wine
An occasional series of pictures of people and places.Location; Beech Road, ManchesterPictures; People & Places Manchester, 2009 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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More of Well Hall from the camera of Ryan Ginn
Yesterday I was in the Pleasaunce with two of Ryan’s pictures and as you do I have decided to feature two more.For all of us who long ago left Eltham but remember it with fondness this collection is...
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Finger posts I have seen .................. down in Urmston
Now since I ran the story of finger posts a fair few people have reported sightings and here is one just down the road.It was taken today by my old friend Andy Robertson at the junction of Urmston Lane...
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Street grids I have known part 2 ................... the story of J and S...
That street grid, 2016Yesterday I pondered on the humble street drain cover.*They are one of those things we just take for granted and yet they also have a history.At the time I was interested in the...
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Sandcastles and deck chairs beside the River Thames at the Tower of London
It is one of those odd things about growing old that you do begin to question your own memories.I was telling a friend about building sandcastles beside the Thames in the shadow of Tower Bridge and...
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Walking Well Hall in the April of 1844
Well Hall in 1746Walk along Well Hall Road which runs from the High Street north to Shooters Hill on a sunny day and it is a pleasant enough trip which starts with the church takes in the Tudor Barn...
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Passing the time ............... watching
An occasional series of pictures of people and places.Location; Varese, ItalyPictures; People & Places,Varese, Italy, 2010, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Of floods and weirs and peaceful places, on the edge of Turn Moss
The weir in 1915I really don’t do enough pictures on the blog and rarely do those then and now sort of stories. So here with the help of Nigel Anderson and Michael J Thompson of Hardy Productions UK*...
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When you get it wrong ........ just own up ........ the corrected story of J...
Now I like the way that in the course of just 24 hours a story about a humble street drain cover excites a fair bit of interest and along the way corrects a little of what I had originally written and...
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Student days take 2 circa 1972 ............ a story from my friend Lois*
You know the phrase about returning to one's childhood, well, I think we are returning to our student-hood. For some reason we hadn't anything in particular for dinner tonight, so we peered into the...
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Snaps of Chorlton No 1 a lost road and a demolished house from Ida
Most of the images we see of Chorlton in the late 19thand early 20th centuries were the work of professional photographers. They arrived in the township, focused on the popular bits and sold them on to...
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When horses raced on Middle Park Meadows
Middle Park Meadows circa 1900Well I had no idea that we had a race course and the hunt is on to found out more.And of course as ever the starting point has to be Mr Gregory’s book on Eltham published...
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Doors I have known .............. now that’s a zippy title
Fairfield StreetNow there is nothing original in showing off a collection of doors.But I was reminded of just how many pictures of doors I have taken over the years after talking to my cousin Marisa in...
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Manchester and the Great War .................
August 1914I have to confess that I have been away from the project for a while but during the next few months I shall be working on a new book for the History Press on Manchester and the Great War.Now...
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Urmston ............. a new history
Now just by chance I stumbled across my copy of John Gorton’s Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland and as you do I went looking for what he said about Urmston.Urmston in 1833The...
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