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Modern Salford bright and proud ................ nu 1seen before but well...
Now as much as I like the images of old Salford sometimes it is worth remembering that there are some very interesting new ones going up.Location; SalfordPictures; Salford today, from the collection of...
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Remembering those from New Zealand buried in Manchester and an appeal for help
New Zealand at the FrontYesterday and for most of the rest of June I will be reflecting on those men of the Commonwealth forces who are buried in Southern Cemetery in south Manchester.All of which has...
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One Acre Allotment and more stories of rural Eltham
One Acre Allotments, 1908Even in the most built up urban areas there are clues to our rural past.Here in Chorlton there is still the village green with the old school, the parish graveyard, two old...
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Cleaning, polishing and answering the door ........... domestic service in...
I have long been interested in domestic service, ever since I researched the working conditions in rural Chorltonin the first half of the 19th century.*By the end of that century even the most humble...
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Surviving a century ........... the silver inscribed watch
Now it always fascinates me how cherished items end up on eBay.The watchSome will be family treasures passed down, while others are just a simple holiday snap and yet all of them will have once marked...
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Ready for publication .......... stories behind the book nu 28 sending down...
An occasional series on the stories behind the new book on Manchester and the Great War*Now I say ready but it would be more accurate to say the text is complete the images have been assembled and all...
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Modern Salford bright and proud ................ nu 2 seen before but well...
Now as much as I like the images of old Salford sometimes it is worth remembering that there are some very interesting new ones going up.Location; SalfordPictures Salford today, from the collection of...
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Somewhere in Chorlton in 1929
I doubt that many of us could identify the road at first glance. It is 1929, and the houses have been up for about forty years and are still in that first relatively new phase before the roof and...
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Heating and hammering at the smithy on Eltham High Street in the June of 1840
The smithy close to the present library, 1909I like the way that Eltham is revealing more of its past.Now I say Eltham as if it was a person which it isn’t but in the last few months I rediscovered my...
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The Manchester Tennis and Racquets Club ........... the day Andy Robertson...
Now there might be some who are confused as to why in Blackfriars Street in Salford you could find the Manchester Tennis and Racquets Club.Well according to Andy Robertson who took the pictures it...
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A military academy in the High Street and that other Eltham Lodge
Cliefden House, 1909Mr Thomas Hopkirk ran his military academy from Cliefden House in the High Street during the middle decades of the 19th century.This grand 18th century property is still there on...
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Manchester Corporation Tram nu 765 does its bit for King and Country in 1914
Now here is a story just at its beginning.Manchester Corporation Tram nu 765, 2016This is tram number 765 of Manchester Corporation Tramways Department. It was built in 1914 at Hyde Road in Ardwick...
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Lime Bank in Chorlton, half hidden and half forgotten
The summer of 1848 was a fine one, and newspapers across England were predicting a good harvest.For Charles Morton the short walk on the early evening of Tuesday June 20 from his home at Lime Bank to...
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“A few more in near perfect light” .............. out by Pomona with Andy...
Earlier in the year Andy was back out on Pomona land and took these which are two in a series that will feature over the next few days.They were taken in "near perfect light"on a May day in...
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On Chapel Street ........... the day Andy Robertson wandered into Salford nu 5
Now here is a lesson in always looking closely at a building.For years I have regularly passed this one and never even given it much thought, and especially not the shape.I just hope that there will be...
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The Kickety Brook, Stretford, once a vital part of our flood defences
I first walked the Kickety Brook with my old botanist friend, David Bishop.It doesn’t look much but it was vital in its day for protecting the Duke’s Canal at Stretford.The Canal dates from the 1760s...
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Trams in Eltham a rattling good read
Trams and I mean those old stately early 20th century trams have a fascination for me.Sadly I am too young to remember them although it is just possible my father took me to see the last one clattering...
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A pocket watch, a Canadian war veteran and a story of the power of...
Now I grant you the above is not the most zippiest of titles but it delivers perfectly a turn of events.The inscribed sentiment on the back of the watchThis is the watch of Earle C Duffin, born in...
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Remembering them ...... 100 years after the Battle of the Somme part 2 Heaton...
Now I like the way that seemingly unrelated bits of history come together.Cap badge of Manchester RegimentSo here is a cap badge of the Manchester Regiment which I have chosen to sit beside the...
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More pictures of the Greyhound ....... once a mystery and now just a pub again
Now just a week ago Ron set me on search for this pub. He had come“across it in a collection of old postcards that were given to me in the mid seventies. They came from a dustbin! It was in the...
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