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Painting Salford .................
Here is a painting which needs little in the way of words.When Peter told me he was planning a series of paintings on Salford Quays I was quite excited and here is one he did earlier back in 2011.I...
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A little bit of history for just £1.28 ............ be the first to revive...
Now I love technology.I text, and use WHATSAPP, have a facebook and Twitter account and could be persuaded to use instagram but I am rather taken with the idea of the picture postcard.And so is Peter...
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Rediscovering our recent past the Coldharbour Estate in Eltham sometime in...
I rather think that we often overlook our most recent past.There was one history teacher of mine at Samuel Pepys Secondary Modern School who maintained that if wasn’t at least a hundred years old it...
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Out in Chorlton with the football team in 1920
Now I say 1920 but it could equally be any time between then and 1922.And this I know because it comes from a collection of family photographs belonging to Peter McLoughlin.Unlike many collections...
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Bargains and pictures in Bury Market on a day in March
Now the thing about Bury Market is that it offers up a shed load of stalls to wander around.My sisters and our Geoff are particularly taken by the food side of the market but once that has been done,...
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Heading towards the twin cities along the canal towpath
You don’t have to travel far to get to some large and very impressive expanses of water in the city.Out to the south along with the two water parks there is the Mersey.And for those with less grandiose...
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So what was he doing in Haywards Heath in the arms of a Red Cross nurse?
Now this postcard has set me thinking.The caption is easy enough to follow...........“The Manchesters are holding their own at Haywards Heath.”It leaves little to the imagination but perhaps offers up...
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When there was only Egerton Road
This is Egerton Road sometime in the early 20th century.We now know it as Egerton Road North and there by hangs the clue to its date.Now I am not sure at present when Egerton Road South was cut but it...
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At the Kings Arms waiting for Fred Wisdom to pull a pint
Now this is one of those familiar pictures of the High Street, looking east towards the church and Court Yard some time in 1915.It comes from an excellent collection from Greenwich Heritage Centre...
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At the Islington Mill on James Street in Salford
Well this offers you three for one.It started with Andy asking what the building on James Street was once used for, rolled on to a search of the records and finishes with one of the ghost signs.That...
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Remembering Eltham in 1977
Nothing dates more than the recent past.I am looking at pictures of Eltham taken in 1977 and what strikes me most is how different the place looked just under 40 years ago.It is a mix of the colour...
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St Peter's Square a full century and a bit ago
Now here is a scene which has completely vanished.There will be many who remember the cross which was erected in 1908 after the church had been demolished the year before.And there will less people but...
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Hailing a cab in Chorlton in the 1920s
Charles Croton was one of our taxi drivers and successful enough to have moved from horse and cab to motor vehicle by the 1920s and was listed in the telephone book by 1911.All of which makes him a...
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The Holly Hotel on Palatine Road ........... once a family home and now just...
Here is a building I always passed by without a second glance.The Peace Inn, 2014It is the Peace Hotel, which was the Holly Hotel and before that just Holly House and it is on Palatine Road.I say is...
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New memorials for those of the Great War.......... stories behind the book nu...
An occasional series on the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War*Now I have been thinking of just how we remember those who took part in that conflict which is a century away...
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Revealing the history of Eltham High Street behind its buildings in the...
I like this picture which was taken in 1977 of the northern side of the High Street looking down to the parish church.And the reason why I like it is that it is a good starting point to learning a...
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Where was the Grey Horse Hotel?
Now here is a detective story for which someone will have an ending.Ron sent me this picture which he had come “across in a collection of old postcards that were given to me in the mid seventies. They...
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"See better days and do better things," the sad end of the Chorlton Liberal...
The Chorlton Liberal Club had opened in the October of 1897. It wasn’t the first club the Liberals had had here, that was on Wilbraham Road but the new one on Manchester Road was more “commodious and...
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In Salford at the end of the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal, with a story
Looking across to Manchester, May 2014Now the thing about Andy Robertson’s pictures is that there is always a good story behind them.He recently was out on the old Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal in...
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Remembering them ...... 100 years after the Battle of the Somme part 1...
As we approach the centenary of the Somme preparations across the city are well in hand to mark the Battle which began on July 1 1916.Claude Simpson Alsop, 1890-1916There will be a service in the...
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