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Holiday snaps ....... I keep coming back to nu 3 ... the end of the road
We had become grown up and hired a car and this pretty much was the end of the roadLocation:; GreeceTomorrow ............... RomePicture, Greece, 2012, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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So where is this chap?
Now never one to pass up a detective story here is one for anyone with a magnifying glass, a second hand violin and time on their hands after solving the case of the Red Toad Diamonds.It is the mystery...
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Looking across a sky line ............... different uses for a car park nu 1
Now the thing about sky lines and roof tops is that you don’t often get to see them.So unless you are in a very tall block of flats or have climbed to the top of a church tower or chimney stack you...
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Going to school in Eltham in 1840
Now the National School was opened in 1814 by the Reverend J.K. Shaw Brooke.These were church schools and provided elementary education for the children of the poor. They were the product of the...
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Tracking the history of Beaumont Road
Now if you want to dig deep into the history of a place deeds are a pretty neat start.Of course there are a few draw backs. First you have to own the house and secondly are prepared to be baffled by...
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Holiday snaps ....... I keep coming back to nu 4 ... beside the Pantheon
We were looking for somewhere to eat and found the Pantheon.Nothing to say really.Location: RomePicture, Rome, 2011, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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Down in Dorking with a mystery never to be told
Now I have never been to Dorking but I know someone who has and while walking down the High Street Lois came across a faded painted sign announcing “Antique Furniture China Curios & Prints Repairs...
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In one of the six Alms Houses on Eltham High Street in 1851
The Alms Houses in 1909For many of us the Workhouse with its stigma and the horrors that went with being shut up behind its grim walls is just a few generations away.In my case it was my great...
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Leaf Street Baths in Hulme .............what was lost has been found...
Open to the sunlight again .............. the pool, 2016I am always fascinated when a bit of our collective history is found.In this case it is the pool of the Leaf Street Baths in Hulme which vanished...
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Rare pictures of an Edwardian sitting room in Chorlton
It is rare to see the inside of a Chorlton house from the beginning of the 20th century and so I am grateful to Mr Ray Jones for sharing this one.What is all the more remarkable is that his family...
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When in Rome Part 4
Now we had gone looking for that floating dance floor, the one Gregory Peck took Audrey Hepburn to in Roman Holiday.I was determined to find it having just seen another Italian movie with an equally...
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A prize for Park Brow Farm in Chorlton
Now here is a little bit of our history which often gets over looked.In 1916 Park Brow Farm was awarded a certificate of Merit at the Manchester Show “in the Competition for supplying Milk daily from...
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When in Rome part 2
Now when in Rome I do the ruins, like any tourist, after all if you have had a love affair with Roman history since you were seven it is obligatory.Left to myself I can get lost at the Forum, and...
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A last chance to go visiting Leaf Street Baths in Hulme
Yesterday I suggested that anyone interested in the old Leaf Street Baths in Hulme should get down there because after half a century of being buried they are briefly open again to the sunlight.It has...
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Uncovering more of those who lived in Eltham's Alms Houses in the April of 1851
The Alms Houses in 1909Sometimes the past can be quite stubborn about revealing the lives of people.But then I am constantly surprised at how much there is, particularly on the “little people” whose...
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Down on Maple Avenue with more rare pictures
This is another of those wonderful images from Ray Jones whose family owned one of the houses on Maple Avenue for over a century, spanning the old Queen’s Jubilee, two world wars, and much else.It was...
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Something new for Chorlton ....................
Now here is a smart idea.Think of somewhere in Chorlton that is special to you.It could be one of those iconic buildings like the Lych Gate by Chorlton Green, or the Library on Manchester Road or your...
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When in Rome part 3
A few days ago I was reflecting on that other Rome which most tourists only get to see by accident. Not that we are any different. You take the wrong turning compound that with asking the advice of a...
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In Jubilee Cottages behind the High Street in the spring of 1851
The High Street, with Fry's Buildings 1858-73Jubilee Cottages were one of those places I wish I had been able to visit but I missed them by just seven years.They were built in 1833 and demolished in...
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Warne’s Book of the Farm .............. one I wish I had been given
Now I am a great fan of children’s books especially the ones that were produced when I was growing up.Most of them were beautifully produced with a real care to detail and quality and of course with...
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