Photo Thread.

[Soph]

It has information about Manchester from that year, the counselors, organisations, churches, businessses etc
There was one every year

I like the Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles of the Northern Counties: That is where I should be 



This is the area where my university is:
Oxford Street is oxford Road, where my building is
All Saints Church was there as well
It is just down the road from Little Ireland, where all the Irish immigrants went



And this is information about prices of graves in Manchester:



This is All Saints Church, on Oxford Rd:
It is in Grosvenor Square where my Sophie tree is
It got bombed by the Luftwaffe during the war

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I have a couple of books like that from where my relatives lived back then

[Soph]

I like books like that
There are loads in the library at uni
I went through a whole one in one day once, and made notes on it

[Soph]

I like books like that
There are loads in the library at uni
I went through a whole one in one day once, and made notes on it

Obviously I don't mean literally on the book
I wouldn't write on a 150 year old book

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I like old books in general my oldest is from the 1830's

[Soph]

I don't own any old books like that
I wish I did though

I found a local one in the reference-only section at the library before xmas
It had this picture of a cottage which was on the road my school is on:



And this is the church just round the corner from my house from the same book:

[Parts]

I have tons of books many old some new.  Probably about a dozen leather bound ones from the 1800's

I like the thatch roof on the cottage in the photo do any houses in your area still have them I know they get weird about historical house preservation there

[zaftig]

Where did you buy it? Ebay?

I like the Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles of the Northern Counties: That is where I should be 

Shush, you

This is the area where my university is:
Oxford Street is oxford Road, where my building isAll Saints Church was there as well
It is just down the road from Little Ireland, where all the Irish immigrants went

I always find it strange how immigrants alienate and seperate themselves from other people, and try to recreate their country all over again.  Like Chinatown and Southall here. 



Southhall doesn't look as spectacular but the minute you ride into it you can smell it.  Indian spices

And this is information about prices of graves in Manchester:

I wonder why did they sort it by such age groups.  It would have made more sense to have stillborns, under 1 year olds, 1 to 10 year olds, then 10 upwards.

I have a book about how Hanwell (my area) used to look like

[zaftig]

I found a local one in the reference-only section at the library before xmas
It had this picture of a cottage which was on the road my school is on:

What is now in its place? 

[Soph]

There are a couple that look just like that near here, but I don't think they have a thatched roof anymore. One is haunted apparently  P:eople keep buying it and then moving out after a few months

My house is not haunted though, I think it was built in the 60s 

I wish they were more bothered about historical preservation here
Urmston railway near where I live is being redeveloped
They're turning the old station uilding into a cafe or something

Here it is from about 1910:



And this is SSt Mary's church round the corner:

[Soph]

Where did you buy it? Ebay?

The 1899 book?
I took that picture when I was in the library, I can't keep it lol They wouldn't let me

This is the area where my university is:
Oxford Street is oxford Road, where my building isAll Saints Church was there as well
It is just down the road from Little Ireland, where all the Irish immigrants went

I always find it strange how immigrants alienate and seperate themselves from other people, and try to recreate their country all over again.  Like Chinatown and Southall here. 

Southhall doesn't look as spectacular but the minute you ride into it you can smell it.  Indian spices

I did a unit in first year about cultural identities, one of them was ethnicity - I studied Irish immigrants and Jews etc then

[Soph]

I found a local one in the reference-only section at the library before xmas
It had this picture of a cottage which was on the road my school is on:

What is now in its place? 

I'm not sure
It's a really long road so I dunno which part of the road it was on - I think that might ave been further up the other end that the one my school is on. The hospital is on that road as well. Iw as born in that hospital. It's called Trafford general now but when Iw as born there it was called park Hospital, it was the first NHS hospital to open in England, in 1948. If I'd been a month later been born a month and a day later, it would have been exactly 40 years after

[Soph]

This is th maternity ward at that hospital in 1929
The hospital already existed before it because the first NHS hospital, I think it was first opened in 1926, but I can't remember actually

[zaftig]

My area doesn't care about historical preservation either.

They planned to install a tram line to go through Ealing which would have totally screwed up the roads

There used to be a "haunted" house near mine.  It was dark green, old, mouldy and decaying but then someone bought it and restored it

We also had the 1st Middlesex County Asylum 

[Soph]

And here are some more:

This is when it was opened by A (can't remember how to spell his first name) Bevan, as an NHS hospital in 1948:



And thisis a theatre there in 1929:



And another picture of it from 1929:



You can still see that tower there now