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the star & garter
Roger Eastwood

Oil on Board

©️ Estate of the artist/Private collection

#Manchester #Manchesterartist #ManchesterMusic #art #oilpainting #ManchesterHistory
December 8, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Wet Sunday in Stalybridge
by Roger Eastwood 1984

Oil on Board

©️ Estate of the artist/Private collection

#Manchester #Manchesterartist #art #oilpainting #ManchesterHistory #Sunday #rain
December 8, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Strangeways , Manchester
Arthur Delaney (1927-1987)

Oil on board

©️ Estate of the artist

#Manchesterartist #Manchester #art #paintingsofmanchester #ManchesterHistory #oilpaintings
December 7, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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Manchester United Fans, Old Trafford, 1991
by Richard Davis.

© Richard Davis, all rights reserved

#Manchester #photography #artofmanchester #ManchesterHistory #OldTrafford
November 27, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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December 28, 1989 - Manchester Evening News - A profile on Sylvester McCoy.
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#1989
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#ClassicDoctorWho
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July 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Mamucian Auxilliary Roman Fort

Reconstruction of early 3rd century Gate, wall & Double defensive ditch. Plus foundation of original grain store & Vicus (outside civilian settlement)

#roman #romanmanchester #manchester #mamucian #romanempire #romanbritain #romanfort #romangate #manchesterhistory
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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February 1, 1990 - Manchester Evening News - Sylvester McCoy and Garfield come out to help in the appeal to save a children's hospital.
#SylvesterMcCoy #Garfield #ChildrensHospital #HospitalAppeal #ManchesterEveningNews #1990s #CharityAppeal #CommunitySupport #DoctorWho #RetroNews #ManchesterHistory
July 25, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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👋 bluesky bud: for those interested in #histTech #HSTM #Universityhistory #Manchesterhistory #Postwar #heritage #modernity #science #education & 'white heat', you may enjoy my paper on the history of UMIST for Bulletin of the John Rylands Library @manchesterup.bsky.social

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Forging the Future with the White Heat of the Past? Legacies of ‘the Tech’, and the Making of the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1966–74
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was created for the advancement of technical education in post-war Britain. Born of an existing technical college, fondly known...
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December 20, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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🍺 Manchester Series No. 2: Boddingtons

You can’t tell the story of Manchester without a pint of Boddingtons.

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July 21, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Did This Pillar Box Really Survive the IRA Bomb? #Manchester #localhistory #Manchesterhistory #history
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Did This Pillar Box Really Survive the IRA Bomb?
YouTube video by Wanderer Wes
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June 11, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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In 1950, in the very building that now houses the Child Study Centre, Alan Turing asked a question that changed the world: ‘Can machines think?’ His Manchester paper introduced the Turing Test, laying the foundations of artificial intelligence.
#artificialintelligence #STEM #manchesterhistory
December 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The family story with this is that my 4th Great-grandad, the grave digger, used to carry his son around on his back.
I doubt they could have afforded any sort of wheelchair (heck, it took a year before I could get a 'cheap' one and 6yrs for one that fits me via NHS).
#ManchesterHistory #AngelStreet
March 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Thanks to a very kind xmas offer, Stuart at
@babelcolour.bsky.social took a newly discovered 1906 photo of my gt grandfather in Prestwich Asylum (newly committed) and re-imagined it as if taken by modern photography. Quite the result. Gt grandf was held there 35 years #manchesterhistory #prestwich
Black and white mug shot of 33-year-old man taken in 1906. Colour reconstruction of 1905 photo as if taken today, of 33-yr-old man in a garden. Colour reconstruction of 1905 photo as if taken today, of 33-yr-old man with background of a glowing sunset.
December 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Kellogg’s has left Trafford Park after 88 years, taking 360 jobs and a piece of Manchester’s industrial heritage with it

#Kelloggs #Manchester #TraffordPark #Jobs #Industry #Manufacturing #ManchesterHistory #UKBusiness

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Kellogg’s has left Trafford Park after 88 years, taking 360 jobs and a piece of Manchester’s industrial heritage with it
The factory that once produced a million cereal boxes a day has stopped production, ending one of Trafford Park’s longest-running manufacturing stories
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September 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Fun fact: During the English Civil War, Clayton Hall was visited by Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Parliamentary forces—imagine Roundhead soldiers marching over that same stone bridge that still stands today! ⚔️🏰

#ManchesterHistory #ClaytonHall #CivilWarHistory
July 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Exploring Manchester’s Medieval Quarter, Manchester Cathedral & The Lega... youtube.com/clip/Ugkxz_h... via
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March 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A much loved local Manchester landmark ,oddly burnt down a few days ago ,
Please sign and share ,do not let the brown envelope brigade win
#hotspurpress #Manchesterhistory

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June 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Getting the 135 bus into town to spy the rooftop rioters #ManchesterHistory #theNineties
revealmcr.bsky.social Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · Apr 1
1 April 1990 A riot over conditions began at Strangeways Prison Manchester, lasting 25 days. An inquiry recommended major prison reforms.
April 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM