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The Story of the Coupe Family................. another from Tony Goluding
This story developed out of another I am researching which for me encapsulates the most fascinating and important aspect of history as a subject. How we are all intricately bound up with each other and...
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Coming Soon ......... an exhibition in Southern Cemetery ..............
It will soon be the centenary of the Battle of the Somme which began on July 1st 1916 and lasted in to November of that year.And to commemorate the event David Harrop is working on a new exhibition at...
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In Assos with the tourists and the ghosts
Asos in Cephalonia is a small classic Greek fishing village.It sits in a secluded cove protected from the open sea with a cluster of bars, restaurants and holiday homes on three sides and a Venetian...
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A lost Eltham Palace nu 1 ................ The Banqueting Hall
Now I have decided to run a few pictures of what Eltham Palace looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries.It had long been abandoned as a home for royalty and its grand days were a thing of the...
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Rare pictures of the Horse and Jockey and a mysterious historian of Chorlton
This is one of three photographs that I doubt very few people have seen.It is the Horse and Jockey in 1933 and appears in a Short History of Chorlton-cum-Hardy published privately in that year.There...
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Looking for the story behind the farm buildings on St Werburgh’s Road .......
Now even the most humble of buildings will have a story if you know where to look.Those farm buildings circa 1970sOf course in the great sweep of history most of us will plump for a Tatton Hall or...
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On eating Italian pasta on a Greek island
I often wonder what these small Greek villages are like in winter when the tourists have gone.Now my friend George who lives in Symi says that it's quieter with a bit of rain.But I rather think in the...
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What a difference 42 years can make ........ The Rochdale Canal transformed
Thirty eight years is pretty big chunk of any one’s life and in my case falls just short of the forty-three years I have lived here in the city.It is also the space between the pictures taken by a...
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So what would you do in Alexandra Park in 1906?
The TerreceI am back in Alexandra Park sometime after 1906.I can’t be sure exactly when but it will be sometime during that decade or a little later.Now the park had had that make over which not only...
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A little bit of Australia in Eltham, the story of Yemmerrawanne and his death...
Rev Shaw Brooke's entry in the parish records, 1794“Yemmurrvonyea Kebarrah, a native of New South Wales, died May 18th 1794, supposed to be aged 19 years at the house of Mr Edward Kent.”It is not much...
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Remembering a lost Chorlton farm from over 60 years ago
Now I am looking at two pictures of Park Brow Farm which was doing the business of growing food from before the start of the 19th century.And what makes the two pictures all the more remarkable is that...
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Picture postcards of Chorlton .................... the new ones
Now the age of the picture post card has gone.It flourished in the late 19th century into the middle decades of the next.It was helped along by the regular collection and delivery of mail which meant a...
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Back with Yemmerrawanne from Australia who was buried in Eltham in May 1794
His grave stone, 2011Yesterday I was in the parish graveyard reflecting on the life of the young Yemmerrawanne from Australia who died here in the May of I794.His was a short life and one that few...
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Holiday snaps ....... I keep coming back to nu 1 ... doing the Roman thing
Yes it’s Bath or Aquae Sulis as we fans of all things Roman say.I have to say the museum was well worth it.And that is all I am going to say.Tomorrow ............... GreeceLocation: BathPicture, Bath,...
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“All gone now” ................... after two centuries Mr Sharpe’s house on...
Now the last little bit of Mr Sharpe’s house which stood on Beech Road from early in the 19th century has gone.I suppose with hindsight its departure was never in doubt after the fire that destroyed...
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Chorlton farmers ............. Mr and Mrs Bancroft farming at Park Brow from...
Now I don’t have a picture of James Bancroft, but given that he was born in 1802 and spent his life at the plough I doubt he would have had the time or the inclination “to sit and be done in oils.”The...
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Holiday snaps ....... I keep coming back to nu 2 ... a Greek windmill and...
It was one of those places you find by accident.It had long ceased grinding corn but the enterprising owner had turned it in to a bar and the olives were good.But the display by four big cargo planes...
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Tell us the story about your Alexandra Park
Now the story of Alexandra Park is a fascinating one and becoming more so as people are offering up their own personal stories and pictures of their Alex Park.A few days ago we got some smashing images...
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Doing the business of running Eltham from a pub and charging the ratepayers...
The old Greyhound and other buildings, 1909Pubs and inns have always been more than just places to drink and relax, like the posh coffeehouses of the 17th century they were also venues for political...
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A little bit of the old Assize Courts in a farm house garden in Chorlton
Now this story appeared at the beginning of the year but given the interest in Park Brow Farm it just has to come out again.Now I have to confess that this picture of Manchester Assize Courts interests...
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