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A little bit of our history down at the Co-op
2d token issued by the R.A.C.S., date unknownIt’s so easy to lose so much of our history.Now the big things like the homes of the great and good, as well as the not so good but still very powerful and...
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Down at Albert's with Mr Babayan from Constantinople
This is the Albert on Barlow Moor Road, but there will be some who remember it as a pub and a few who if pushed will own up a few late nights in the bar as guests of a resident when it was a hotel.And...
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Salford pubs ................. nu 1 ........ The King's Arms and a bit of a...
Now here is a lesson in being overconfident and not looking for the simple answer.This is the King’s Arms in Bloom Street, the sign on the side of the pub says 1883 and from another source I got the...
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Lamenting the loss of the fountain on Chorlton green
Odd how most of us think of Chorlton green as an open space of grass ringed by trees because this was not how it has always been.Before the turn of the 19th century it may have been much bigger and...
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Tall, elegant with a hint of decay .................. abandoned in the park...
It was one of those indifferent mornings which made going down to the beach a less than attractive idea so with the promise of cheap bikes for hire we went along to the park.It stretches for miles is...
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The Salford I am discovering for the first time part 1, the Black Horse
From the archive one from 2014.Now it isn’t so much that I haven’t discovered the places in this series, just that I have passed them by without much of a second glance.So here over the next few weeks...
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Down at Parrs Wood, deciding on a film, a meal or a game of bowling just a...
The Parrs Wood entertainment complex slipped in while I wasn’t looking.The Parrs Wood complex, 2014Now given its size and the fact that it has been there since 2001 that I agree is pretty...
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"I had been bull ward in the bull ring, and once kept one of the gamest bulls...
Now every so often you come across accounts of the bull baiting that went on in the township. The Bowling Green late 19th centuryThe stories usually appear on a slow week in one of the local...
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Magic nights in Well Hall
I can picture the poster now.It featured a guitar and a set of unlaced boots, was finely drawn in black ink resting on a white background, and advertised a folk and blues night at Well Hall...
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Down by the Oven Door on Beech Road in 1976
I could have cleaned the picture up, played with the settings and achieved a clearer image but that would have been to lose something of what Lois took in the winter of 1976.*It is, and I know Lois...
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Beware what you going looking for......... stories behind the book nu 22, the...
An occasional series on the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War*Students at St Clement's school. Chorlton-cum-Hardy, date unknownNow one of the concerns exercising many people...
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Salford I am discovering for the first time part 2, Ye Old Nelson
Another from the archive.Now it isn’t so much that I haven’t discovered the places in this series, just that I have passed them by without much of a second glance.So here over the next few weeks are a...
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Watching the hail storm and much more in the Bay of Naples
The VIA R. REGINALDO GIULIANI July 23rdNever underestimate the surprises offered up in the Bay of NaplesWe arrived in Sorrento in the blistering heat of late afternoon and that was how it was for two...
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The Horse & Jockey on the green sometime in the 1970s
This is one of those pictures of the Horse and Jockey which I remember.And yet despite it dating back just a few decades it looks as dated as a picture of the pub and green from 1900.It starts of...
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Looking at Eltham in 1930 with the drawings of Llwyd Roberts
Way to the PalaceToday I received a wonderful collection of drawings from my friend Margaret whose husband like me grew up in Eltham.There are 27 of them in all and they were drawn by Mr Llwyd Roberts...
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On Blackfriars Street in 1894
We are on Blackfriars Street sometime at the beginning of April 1894.Now I can be pretty certain of that because our old friend Samuel L Coulthurst wrote the location on the picture and the dates on...
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At the Tasty Corner in Sorrento and a lesson in why you should always wander
Now it is one of those little streets which you only find by accident.We were following the line of shops along Via San Cesareo and cut through an arch in a building which opened up on the even...
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Salford Central the one you miss
It’s the one you miss. Salford Central Station is on New Bailey Street and is set back between two railway viaducts.So travelling out of Manchester into Salford even on foot it was not the most visible...
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Back on Pound Place a long time before now
Pound Place was always somewhere I tended to walk past and looking down it now I can’t even remember what stood on the site of the Council Offices.Ihave written about it in the past not least because...
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Lunch time on the green by the lych gate in 1910
We are sometime in the summer of 1910 and judging by the collection of young people I think it must be dinner time.A few are young enough to be at school but four at least of the central group will...
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