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The Dark End of the Street 1967 .............. songs you never forget
I can’t remember listening to The Dark End of the Street when it was released in 1967 and it was only years later that I came across it.*All of which is a shame because it is the sort of song that my...
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Another picture of Castlefield
I discovered Castlefield nearly forty years ago and always find it a fascinating place.Location; Castlefield, ManchesterPicture, Castlefield, 2006, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Don't look back ... thoughts after finding Looking at Eltham, 1970
Front cover showing the High StreetNow Eltham is a long way from Chorlton but it was where I grew up and occasionally I am drawn back.It is in south east London and was once in Kent. It has an old...
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The Britannia Brass Works Ashton Under Lyne ........... a ghost sign that...
Now Hill Street was not a place I ever went to when I lived in Ashton, but we were walking back from the Portland Basin Museum and this was the route we took.The Brass Works, 2016I have to say I was...
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By train from Chorlton into the Hope Valley in the April of 1957 for a day of...
Now it is Sunday April 7th 1957 and I am on Chorlton railway station waiting for the train from Central which left at 9.45 am and is due here just twelve minutes later.The weather according to the...
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Outside Venice ............
We were travelling back from the seaside west to Varese.There had been a vague plan to do Venice but in high summer with young kids that was never going to happen.Instead we stayed by the beach, and on...
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Our little village .......... stories from the West country by Lois Elsden
Uphill is a very small village just south of Weston-super-Mare on the coast of the Bristol Channel where the Axe flows into the sea.This area has been inhabited since Neolithic times; there were caves...
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Peck's meat and fish pastes ............ a meal on its own
Peck's meat and fish pastes were something I grew up with.They came in small glass jars and offered up a variety of tastes, from fish, salmon, beef and chicken and were spread on bread.I had all but...
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Telling the story of that house in Sale ............ part 3
How do you tell the story of a house?Vernon Lodge, circa 1880sYou could start with the simple facts of when it was built, the additions over the years and its change of use from perhaps family home to...
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Tales from the Manchester tram and a look back to the 19th century
Now the Metro link is a pretty sophisticated transport system but yesterday in the heart of the city on the bit of the network that runs from Deansgate Castlefield to Mosley Street the tram was...
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Manchester Landmarks ......... the Rylands Warehouse
An occasional series describing a Manchester landmark in one sentence.It was built in 1932 for Rylands and Sons as a wholesale textile warehouse and acquired by Pauldens in 1957 and converted into a...
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Hough End Hall in the 1950s
Now the thing about very old buildings is that usually we focus on that very old bit.So it is with Hough End Hall built in 1596 and for a big chunk of its history the family home of the Mosley...
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Walking away with a bargain ...........in the market in Ashton on a Tuesday...
I had forgotten how much I like Ashton and in particular the market.We had taken the tram up from Chorlton on a bright sunny day which was perfect for a wander around the town.The plan had been to...
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So when did our Police Station close and does that help date my picture of a...
The Police Station 1959Now there are no prizes for knowing where this is although in the way of these things it may not be with us for much longer.It’s the police station on Barlow Moor Road and since...
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Well Hall Road and memories of collecting my National Insurance number in 1965
Now I left Eltham a long time ago and bits of the place have tended to fade faster than others. But Chrissie’s pictures of the parade of shops at the top end of Well Hall Road brought it all...
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Pictures I remember taking .............. along the Rochdale Canal
Now this one has featured before and will do so again.We are on that stretch of the Rochdale Canal by the Deansgate Tunnel.There will be plenty of people who like me will remember when the canal was a...
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One to do today ................. “CROSSROADS - AN ART EVENT BY KEN FOSTERS...
Now here is one to do today.“CROSSROADS - AN ART EVENT BY KEN FOSTERS CYCLES” involves six local artists have come together to celebrate Chorlton and its people.It opens today at 11.30.“The primary...
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Looking down on Eltham in the late 1960s
The aerial photograph has got to be one of those powerful ways of capturing a scene.So here we are flying over Eltham sometime in the late 1960s or early 70s.Over to our left just below the centre of...
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Back on Hardy Lane a long time before now
We are on Hardy Lane again. The caption just says “view from Hardy Lane, near Hardy Lane Farm looking across to Jackson’s Boat in the distance.”I don’t have a date but I guess it will be before the...
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Pictures I remember taking .............. down a side street looking for the...
It was the summer we went to Alghero and I had wandered off looking for the museum I had found the night before.And as you do I found so much more.Location, Alghero, SardiniaPicture; Alghero, 2013,...
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