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Who knew W M Rawlinson of Eccles?
Now I say Eccles because that is the place name which was written on the back of this picture postcard.I don’t have a date, and so far I have been unable to track W M Rawlinson down.His large sign says...
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Remembering some of Canada’s war dead in south Manchester
Now I don’t know where my great uncle is buried in Canada. The grave of T WilliamsHe was sent by the Derby Guardians in the care of Middlemore in the May of 1914, served in the Canadian Expeditionary...
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A park bench, a Radio Station and a reggae singer ............. Piccadilly...
Now as soon as you post a picture of Piccadilly Gardens you can be confident there will be a deluge of comments.Most favour the old layout and I have to say I am one of them. In my case it is a mix of...
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The story of one building in Chorlton over three centuries ............. part...
The Travellers Rest, 1901The continuing story of one building in Chorlton over three centuries*For just seventy years number 70 Beech Road was a beer shop, trading variously as the Robin Hood, the...
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Harold Morris of Eltham and Welling, a life lived out in service to the...
This is the young Harold Morris sometime in the early 1920s.It is a wonderful picture not least because it takes us into a lost world when milk was still marketed by small independent businesses and...
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A scene now lost in time ............. looking out from the short lived cafe...
Now that I grant you is not the most imaginative title but it does the business for this scene looking out across the city.It was taken just over the railway station had its makeover. Back then this...
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Another day another walk along the canal .............. pictures of change
I continue to be impressed with what you can see of our past and what is yet to come just by taking a walk along the canal.Andy Robertson set off on what was one of the last nice days in November and...
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The Duke of York on Marlborough Road ............ a pub with a history yet to...
Now given its distinctive appearance you would think there would be more stories about the Duke of York on Marlborough Road.After all Peter’s painting captures the place at its best but unless I have...
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The story of one building in Chorlton over three centuries ............. part...
The continuing story of one building in Chorlton over three centuries*Number 70 Beech Road, 2015Now it is a lesson to us all, well to me any way that it is so easy to take a building for granted.So...
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Uncovering a bit of the life of Lewis St J R Clutterbuck of Westmount Road in...
Gertie's postcard 1915Yesterday I was with Gertie about to send her postcard from Westmount Road in 1915.*She was keen to tell her friend E of how“I like the nursery work so much better so have taken a...
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Remembering our British Home Child who served with the Canadian Expeditionary...
Now over the last few days I have been reflecting on my great uncle’s involvement in the First World War.Canada in Khaki, 1917He arrived in Canada in the May of 1914 with the Middlemore organisation,...
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The Vine in Sale, the Ainscow Hotel on Trinity Way and a bit of a detective...
Now it started with a picture of the Vine on Washway Road, and ended with the Ainscow Hotel on Trinity Way in Salford.The Vine, 2015All of which makes perfect sense given that both are in a similar...
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Thomas Williams of the Canadian Expeditionary Force ............. born in...
Now sometimes stories just have a habit of evolving and so it is with this one.Over the space of the last few days I have been moving effortlessly from my great uncle Roger who was both a BHC and...
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That impressive building on Canal Street ................ once the offices of...
Now I will have passed this building on Canal Street countless times in the early 1970s.The old College of Knowledge which had me as one of its students is just around the corner, and Canal Street was...
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So what is the story behind the tram on Well Hall Road, one sunny spring day?
Now there is a fine line between nostalgia and remembering the past.The first pretty much takes you nowhere and often distorts the past by making it seem somehow better than it was.On the other hand...
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A vanished pond and a sinister story
Now I am just an old romantic, and so I would love there to be something in the story of Sally’s Hole.It was a pond on the edge of the meadows just to one side of the old road that ran from the village...
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A building on Chester Road, a painting by Peter and the promise of a lot more...
Now I like the way stories come together.This is Peter’s painting of the Greatstone Hotel on Chester Road. And as these things happen I have just had a long conversation with Adrian the owner who...
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Technical School Salford, 1905
Now the date for this postcard is June 26th 1905 which will be the date it first went on sale.It comes from the collection of Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd who I wrote about yesterday. The card was...
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Remembering those from New Zealand and Australia who rest in Southern Cemetery
Now as we reach that mid point in the Great War here is a book from the end of the conflict.Final Campaign NumberIt belongs to Allan Dodson who lives in New Zealand and there is something poignant in...
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The lost road names of Chorlton
Now there are a lot of lost road names in Chorlton. I say lost but most are just name changes.I guess it was matter of eliminating duplicate names which appeared elsewhere in the city.So Regent became...
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