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A taste of Sicily in Switzerland ......... oranges, chillies and a red onion
Varese, 2016Now the great thing about holidays is that you come back with a shed load of fresh experiences, a clutch of photographs and above all some new recipes.And so it was this time.We usually try...
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Rubbing shoulders with the rich in Lugano ............ nu 2
It had started snowing in the early hours of Tuesday morning and by 8 am there was a thick carpet of the stuff across the bit of Switzerlandwe were due to visit.*But a day and half later it had all but...
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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.Location; ManchesterAll have appeared before and some a long time...
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One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road, part 1, reflections
Well Hall Road and our house 2014The story of one house over a century and a bit.Last year was the birthday of the house we lived in for thirty years.We moved into 294 Well Hall Road in March 1964 and...
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Our tram terminus
It’s a personal opinion but I don’t think our tram terminus has fared so well.The lavatories are permanently closed the office building looks a little knocked about and it is the sort of place that you...
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Summer in Varese
Location Varese, ItalyPicture; Il Broletto from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road, part 2, looking for the...
Our house todayLast year was the birthday of the house we lived in for thirty years.We moved into 294 Well Hall Road in March 1964 and while us kids slowly moved out over the years it remained my dad’s...
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Watching people watching trams, on a Saturday in October
It was one of those less than promising days in town when the sun managed to come out for a few hours but you were never quite sure how long the rain would stay off or when the clouds would put a grey...
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Under the gas lamp on High Lane in the summer of 1905
I can see why Cissie decided to send this postcard to her young brother in the August of 1905.He was staying at the delightfully named Gas Works cottage, Ambleside in Westmoreland and it is more than...
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A busy Saturday on Market Street
It was sometime in 2014 and as ever I was waiting while the family explored one more shoe shop on Market Street.Location; ManchesterPicture; Market Street, 2014, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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A quiet afternoon in Varese part 1
It was one of those quiet afternoons in spring just a little on the cool side and there was a hint of rain but it didn’t stop people sitting out and watching as the crowds went byLocation, Varese,...
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Discovering a little of our common past from the 1950s
Now there are plenty of ways of exploring the history of the 1950s and I do spend a fair amount of time looking back at that decade.After all I was coming up to my tenth birthday as the decade...
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One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road, part 3, going back to 1915
Opposite our house on Well Hall Road, 1950Last year was the birthday of the house we lived in for thirty years.We moved into 294 Well Hall Road in March 1964 and while us kids slowly moved out over the...
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Wilbraham Road just 27 years ago
Now just occasionally I like to revisit an old photograph I have used before.This one comes courtesy of Tom McGrath and is from a series he took in the mid 1980s.27 years later he went back and...
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It happened here in Chorlton and also in Didsbury .............. National...
Just under a century ago a crowd assembled on the Rec opposite our house on Beech Road and listened to Mrs Jane Redford, Mr Peach and Miss Place of the Manchester & Salford Day Nurseries speak in...
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“willingly, smilingly and as though theirs is the privilege”* ............
An occasional series on the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War.**Now I was fully prepared and planned for a series of stories on the Red Cross during the writing of the book.It...
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Paris ................ a long time ago
It was one of those short breaks to Paris which coincided with my first proper camera, a Pentax K1000, SLR.So good was the camera that I bought a second a few months later.I continue to have a strong...
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Buying that armchair and bed from M E Coupe on the corner of Wilbraham Road...
Now I am never surprised at the interest shown in photographs of Chorlton in the recent past.In many ways they are more interesting than those from a century and a bit ago and I think it is because it...
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One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road, part 4, a bit of idle...
Gas fitting 1911This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.*Last year was the birthday of the house which we lived in for thirty...
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A quiet afternoon in Varese part 2
It was one of those quiet afternoons in spring just a little on the cool side and there was a hint of rain but it didn’t stop people sitting out and watching as the crowds went by.Location, Varese,...
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