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Shop doors I have known ................... Stamford Street Ashton-Under-Lyne
Now shop fronts and their entrances do get rather overlooked, which is a shame, because the old traditional ones which will date back a century or more are vanishing.I fully accept that back then they...
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Down at Duffy's thinking about Audrey's and the man who sold a nit comb
Now Duffy’s has been serving up pints with football for almost as long as I can remember.Duffy's in 2008That said I did once have a meal in the place when it was an Italian restaurant and just about...
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Standing outside Burton’s on Well Hall Road remembering a suit
Thinking of my first suit......... outside Burton's, 2015Now I am back with another one of those buildings that most of us take for granted.Added to which a large chunk of people will not even know...
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That fountain in Albert Square
Now I have to say that I can’t remember the fountain returning to Albert Square.It was designed by Thomas Worthington and erected in the square for the old Queens Golden Jubilee in 1897.There will be...
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Down at the Throstles Nest something is stirring
Now Andy Robertson has been out again on Seymour Grove with a new picture of the Throstles Nest.He was last there in July at which time I speculated on the future.* The one planning application just...
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What a difference a century makes ............. looking down to Eltham Hill...
Now I like this view from St John’s church yard down towards Eltham Hill.It is one I have taken for granted but nicely shows just how Eltham has changed in a century and reminds me how I have yet to...
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All glass and interesting shops .............. Barton Arcade
Now I know that people have taken better pictures of Barton Arcade but this is one of mine.Like most people who weren’t born in the city the first time you stumble across it is a revelation.All the...
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A moment on Barlow Moor Road in 1903 and an apology
I wonder just what the sketch was that N finished in the December of 1903.I know that it was late and he/she apologised for not competing it on time.That apology and the news that it was on the way was...
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Never pass up an opportunity to record a bit of history ............. down on...
Now St George’s House has fared much better than that other block of terraced houses a bit further down Chester Road.St Georges House, 2016So while St George's House looks neat and busy that other...
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A posh bag and an even posher meal ......... it just has to be the Gallieria
Now I have to say I don’t think there is any way you can do justice to the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan.Milan, 2009It is too big and too popular a place for an amateur like me to get a good...
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On the Thames in the summer of 1978
I have never lost my love of the river.We never lived far from the Thames and of course trips to town took you either under it or more likely over it, and once we moved to Eltham there was always the...
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You can never get enough of Castlefield.
I can never get enough of Castlefield.I remember it as a slightly shabby area waiting for something to happen.Once it had been a thriving area of factories, warehouses and timber yards and a busy...
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On Chorlton Green with Derrick A Lea in 1957
We are on the green sometime between 1955 and ’58 outside the Horse and Jockey.Now I know this because the artist who drew the scene completed a series of pictures of Chorlton during this period. He...
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The context behind a family story ............... discovering the dark secret...
Sooner or later most of us engaged in family history switch from collecting names and dates to probing behind the lives of those we encounter.Union Street, Borough Walk, Derby circa 1950It starts with...
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Sky lines I have seen ...................... Albert Square ...2007
Now I can do skylines, perhaps not as good as some but if you point the camera to the roof tops there is the picture.This tall one was another that I missed.For a big chunk of the 70s and early 80s I...
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The not so different bits of where we live, part 2 ............. Greenwich
Now I am always intrigued at those more recent photographs of where we live.So while pictures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are fascinating often everything is so different that it is...
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Who knew Derrick A. Lea of Illustrations & Design?
I am looking at one of eight illustrations produced by Derrick A. Lea. My eight are all greetings cards, some of which have a Christmas message and others with a more general inscription.Of the eight,...
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Why did the Derby Poor Law Guardians lose grandad's place of birth?
Beware what you wish for is one of those warnings I have never really understood.William Henry Hall, circa 1930But then I have never really made that many wishes and likewise have never really been one...
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Wishing I had a letter to post .............. waiting at the Airport for the...
Now of all the bits of street furniture I have come across these two do not rank very highly.At T3 waiting for the plane from Milan, 2016They are not that old and are not even on a street.If you wanted...
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Doing the double in Frodsham ............. making a telephone call and...
Now this is a telephone box with a difference.It is according to the blue plaque nearby a “Telephone Kiosk circa 1927 K4 style 'The Vermillion Giant'Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, only fifty were...
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