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A church on Barlow Moor Road and a missing hall in Greenfield
Now I fully accept that I am being a tad lazy. Were I not I would have fully researched this postcard using the catalogue number from the Wrench Series but sometimes there are too many research...
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On Shooters Hill with Mrs Craven and George Field in the June of 1841
I have decided to head north of Well Hall to Shooters Hill in search of a story. Back in the 1830s and 40s, it was a mixed bunch of those deriving an income from the land and the well off. So of our...
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A week and a bit in the history of Beech Road Part 4
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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In St Peter's Square with that closed metro stop ............
Now this is a scene which will now have passed into history.It was taken by Julian Beach who comments “following your blog post earlier this week about documenting the passing of local landmarks, I...
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Blighty ............. a unique record from the Great War part 2 looking for...
This was the message that Private H F Jordan left in the autograph book of the St John’s Red Cross Hospital in Cheltenham.*He was recovering from wounds in December 1916 and as a mark of his gratitude...
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The story of one house in Peckham number 17 ........ a garden pond and a...
The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Now our pond would not have won any prizes in Home and Garden Magazine, but it was built by...
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Out on the Thames by Woolwich
I have never lost my love of the River Thames.Even now I never feel fully at home till the train pulls out over the bridge from Charing Cross heading towards Waterloo.As a child I played on that sandy...
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On Needham Avenue watching out for the first cakes from Parker's bakery
Now I am back with that building on Needham Avenue.Like many people I had often pondered on its origins, and only recently discovered it had been built by a baker who gave his name to part of what is...
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One house on Barlow Moor Road over a century and a bit
Our house on Barlow Moor Road in 1904Now I don’t usually go in for then and now pictures but today is different.We are on Barlow Moor Road at the junction with High Lane, and I am looking at the same...
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Revealing more on the story of Private Jordan .............. from Cheltenham...
This is one of those sad postscripts, but one that holds the promise of discovering more about a soldier of the Great War.Cairo War Memorial CemeteryYesterday I wrote about Private H F Jordan who spent...
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The magic of crossing the river at Woolwich by ferry
Now the ferry is just something that sticks with you no matter how many years it is since you were on it.And it still has the power to win friends. So when we were heading back to Manchester I...
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On Lausanne Road with that cast iron sewer pipe ................. now that’s...
Now I always took that tall cast iron sewer pipe beside the Swiss Tavern on the corner of Lausanne and Belfort Roads for granted.Down in PlumsteadIt was just one of those bits of street furniture you...
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Catching the 81X from Barlow Moor Road in the summer of 1961
At the bus terminus, July 1961We are at the bus station on Barlow Moor Road in the summer of 1961, and in front of us is the 81X which ran from Southern Cemetery to Hightown via Albert Square.Now I can...
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My Manchester, pictures without the words ............ The Refuge Building, 2010
The Refuge Building, 2010Picture; the Refuge Building , 2010 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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A week and a bit in the history of Beech Road Part 5
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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When you still sent your films off in the post ........... another of those...
Receipt, 1979It’s funny what you find on the cellar floor. I must have passed this receipt from Cherrytree Laboratories Ltd a dozen times and never bothered to pick it up.It will have fallen out of a...
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That lost picture of the Royal Oak in 1902 with young Thomas Kelsey
This is a picture of the old Royal Oak I have never seen before.The caption gives a date of 1902 and refers to “the boy Thomas Kelsey, son of the landlord of the inn at the time.”Now it is very unusual...
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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 week and a bit in the history of Beech Road Part 6
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 story of one house in Peckham number 18........... from bread and...
The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.*Now I suspect pretty much every generation thinks that there’s was the one which has seen...
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