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When we still had a furniture shop and a free car park .... down by the...
Now I am on a roll again with pictures from our most recent past.And so here is another of Andy Robertson’s taken I think in the early 1990s.I will leave you to identify the shops which have gone,...
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Standing on Willowbrook Road and wondering about the story behind the stone...
That stone, 1870Now I just wonder what Edward Dresser Rogers would have made of the state of his foundation stone on Willowbrook Road.It was laid in 1870 to mark the building of the replacement bridge...
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Lost Woolwich .......... no 2 Wellington Street 1905
Now of all the places I knew in my youth I have to say Woolwich is one of those that has been has undergone some of the most radical change.So much so that big chunks of it I have difficulty...
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A new tram service for Chorlton, ........... at the railway station in the...
We are approaching Chorlton along Wilbraham Road with the station just over the bridge on our right.I can’t be exactly sure of the date but it will be sometime in the summer of 1913. Now I can be...
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Already a lost scene ............ looking towards the bridge and the city ......
Now I know there will be many fine accounts of Hulme from just before it was cleared, and also stories of the Crescents and the Decks all accompanied by powerful pictures, but I wonder how many images...
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On Manchester Road in 1911 ........... when I thought I was on Wilbraham Road...
Now earlier today I posted a story of the year the tram came down Wilbraham Road to Chorlton.At the time I was quite pleased with the story, so pleased I reposted it today.*And it turns out I was wrong...
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Queen Tika, Gene Autry and a hidden city ............. at the Peckham Gaumont...
The Thunder Guard enter the secret rockI remain fascinated how one image has stayed with me for over half a century and still has the power to take me back to a Saturday morning in the Gaumont.So...
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Some of our forgotten Chorlton people ............ another story from Tony...
Now there are always those fascinating bits of Chorlton's history that someone has researched so here is another story from Tony Goulding which he has called SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE-THE HISTORY OF...
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So what will a future historian make of those houses on Moss Lane East?
Now I wonder what a future local historian will make of this row of houses on Moss Lane East.Moss Lane East 2015Look closely and two of those on our left are clearly not the same as the rest of the...
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A golden childhood growing up in Well Hall in the 1960's
Lost in the woods, 1977Now Eltham was a pretty good place to grow up in the 1960s especially when you had come from Peckham.It was partly the opportunity to wander over large areas of open and wooded...
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A week and a bit in the history of Beech Road Part 1
Here for no other reason than I have the images are a selection of pictures of Beech Road during the last thirty years.I don’t claim they are all great photographs, some are just snaps others a bit...
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Blighty ............. a unique record from the Great War part 1
I am looking at a picture of the staff and patients of the St John’s Red Cross Hospital in Cheltenham on March 1st 1916.And somewhere on the photograph will be Rachel Wattis who the following month...
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Looking through a shop window in the Northern Quarter
Picture; looking through a shop window in the Northern Quarter, 2014, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Visions of the future .... Orangery Lane, Eltham as it might have been
Now I have always been fascinated by how planners have thought the future might turn out. So here are two views of Orangery Lane as it was in the early 1970s and how it might have been.Pictures; from...
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On rediscovering where you were born ............. The General Lying in...
My hospital, 2007We all have little bits of our past which we stumble across.Most are too personal to warrant even a sentence in a history book but sometimes you know that there is a story and it is...
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At the Hydes Brewery ........... from beer to apartments
The Hydes Brewey site was one I pretty much took for granted, so much so that I doubt I often gave it a second glance as the bus passed on its way into town.And then it closed down having brewing on...
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The 1970s and the story of the man who muttered that he "was never playing...
Now I am the first to admit that as a society we still have a long way to go in addressing issues of equal opportunities.But that said from the standpoint of when I first began a “serious job” in 1973...
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A week and a bit in the history of Beech Road Part 3
Here for no other reason than I have the images are a selection of pictures of Beech Road during the last thirty years.I don’t claim they are all great photographs, some are just snaps others a bit...
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The photograph which begs a story
I have no idea who this woman is or where and when the picture was taken.But that doesn’t diminish my interest in the photograph.It comes from David Harrop who has kindly given me access to what is a...
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Heading towards the twin cities along the canal towpath
You don’t have to travel far to get to some large and very impressive expanses of water in the city.Out to the south along with the two water parks there is the Mersey.And for those with less grandiose...
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