A woman claiming to be the sister of an artist who changed the face of modern film says she fears he may be dead after it was revealed his historic home had become a ‘Marie Celeste’ mansion. It has been abandoned for almost a decade. Martine Barnard-Delaroche saw an […]
Moston
In our town we have a house which was built four hundred years ago. It stands out like a battered thumb midst the Victorian school buildings, the Seventies ‘boxes’ and the dark Edwardian terraces. I say standing like a ‘battered thumb’ reluctantly because such a treasure should be standing with […]
Allow me to create a picture for you – a picture of the streets of Manchester seen through the eyes of my childhood. My childhood was World War II. Most nights were spent underground with the beetles in our Anderson Shelter in my Dad’s leafy garden in Moston. We […]
I’m looking back at many aspects of life in a small town, a suburb – my village; a typical Northern town where I happen to have been born and spent my entire life. Moston. I am reminded of a documentary on our TV screens a few years ago. It […]