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Ten minutes in a railway station .............. Piccadilly July 14 2015...
Now I like railway stations which are only bettered by airports.But unlike airports there is no air side which is really the mark of when the holiday begins.Until then you have the hassle of the taxi,...
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Missing the River Thames
I am back with pictures of the Tall Ships Festival in Greenwich in 2014.My friend Bernard took a series of pictures of the ships as they made their way up the Thames and later as they settled for the...
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Forgotten Chorlton ................. nu 3 clocking the changes at the tram...
Now this is the last of the pictures from that excellent siterun by Mark Fynn.*And as a bonus here are two. I was going to say in the series of then and now, but quite clearly both are from then.The...
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Outside the Wellington Inn at Didsbury posing for the camera sometime after 1865
Today I am in Didsbury outside the Wellington Inn and it is sometime after 1865. Now I can be fairly certain about the date because 1865 was the year the Manchester Carriage Company was formed from a...
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What have they done in Woolwich?
Now when you spend so much of your time crawling over the past you are apt to forget that when places change it is not all for the worse.So when Colin and Liz went out one Sunday into Woolwich armed...
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Ten minutes in a railway station .............. Piccadilly July 14 2015 ........
Now I like railway stations which are only bettered by airports.It is that mix of bustle and purposeful determination on the part of the passengers passing through and of course the promise of...
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OK you can come in now....Chorlton gets its first proper municipal Library
Opening the library in 1914I say first proper municipal library because we had had a few private ones and a temporary one but this building opened in November 1914 was a proper first.It arrived after...
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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.Pictures; around...
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In St Peter's Square waiting for a tram .... at a time before now
Not much really to say.I was in St Peter's Square at the Metro stop that has now vanished looking out at the building site opposite.Location; ManchesterPicture; at the Metro stop, 2014, from the...
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Revisiting favourite places with a twist of history ............... nu 5 St...
An occasional series which just aims to reflect old places or places with a story.Location, ManchesterPicture; St Mary's Gate, 2014, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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One to do ..... Trams around Shooters Hill .... the talk ... tomorrow
Now here is one to read and do from that excellent site Shooters Hill, which has news of a talk on Trams around Shooters Hill.Woolwich TramshedNow I missed the old trams but have never lost a...
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Barlow Hall, a court case and the promise of a park for Chorlton and Didsbury...
It was one of those stories that you uncover by accident and will require lots more research but that won’t stop me beginning the tale.Now I have been crawling over the Manchester Guardian looking for...
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Discovering more about John and Elizabeth Garland and their home on Eltham...
Queenscroft todayI am back with John and Elizabeth Garland who lived in that fine house called Queenscroft on Eltham Hill in 1841.*The house is still there sandwiched between other properties and is...
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Afternoons in a city ............... nu 1 Deansgate
A short series of places I like.Location; ManchesterPicture; Deansgate; 2010 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Of Naples in 1961 and Little Italy in Ancoats in 1901
Rosa in Naples 1961This is one of my favourite pictures of Rosa. It was taken in Naples when she was just 21 during the summer of 1961 just after she had collected her passport. Later that year she...
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A delivery van, a lane in North Cray and a little bit of Eltham’s history
A short series looking at the story behind the picture.This is not just an old van in a country lane but once belonged to Tudor's of Eltham - Cane furniture specialists. I remember it well and here...
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Afternoons in a city ............... nu 2 Alghero
A short series of places I like.Location; Alghero, Sardinia, ItalyPicture; softdrink sellerAlghero, 2011 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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On Chorlton Green during the annual Whit Walks sometime in the 1970s
We are on Chorlton Green sometime in the 1970s during one of the annual Whit Walks.And of course this is entirely appropriate given that every year thousands of people turned out to parade through the...
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Number 3 Jersey Street in the heart of Little Italy
I have tried finding a picture of number 3 Jersey Street but with out successIt has gone now, and the site has been developed as one of those swish inner city set of apartments. But once it’s three...
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Back with H T Burt's on Wilbraham Road with a nod to Stevenson's
I wonder how long it will be before Burt's the Gents Outfitters on Wilbraham Road fades from memory?The shop will have opened for business not long after the stretch of houses between Keppel Road and...
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