Rochdale Canal frozen at Walk Mill, Chadderton, Lancs Bridge painted white for night traffic, Boats are "Shamrock" and "Peter", picture taken 1 February 1895 #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #WINTER #winteriscoming

Fancy Dress Skating in 1930. Because of the date this is probably Manchester Ice Palace (Derby Street, Cheetham Hill), Britain's largest indoor rink when it opened in 1910. #History #HistoryMatters #Manchester #WINTER #WinterClassic

Sport, Skating in Manchester 1930. Sorry I am unable to identify the Park and Lake or pond. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #WINTER #WinterClassic

Ice Skating, Manchester 1920. Unfortunately I cannot identify the park #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snow

Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, Winter 1947 #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters #Manchester #snow

River Mersey, on the Chorlton - Didsbury border in winter 1932. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters #Manchester #snow

7 January 1916 2nd Lt Hamilton Maclaren Wylie of the Seaforth Highlanders was killed in action and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. He is also memorialised on the family grave (below) in Highgate Cemetery, London. Hamilton is also remembered at @pembroke1347.bsky.social #History #WW1

7 January 1917 Roy Menteith “Jim” Comyn (E/26618) of 9 Bn Cameronian Rifles was killed in action and was buried in Avesnes-le-Comte Cemetery Extension Jim is also remembered @kebleoxford.bsky.social #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

7 January 1918 Fl Lt William Basil Loxdale Jones of the Royal Naval Air Service was killed over the Adriatic and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. William is remembered at Harrow School and @kebleoxford.bsky.social #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

7 January 1917 2nd Lt Alfred Lushington Mather of 3 Bn York & Lancaster Regiment was killed in action and was buried in Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery. Alfred is remembered on the grave of his mother in St Cuthbert's churchyard, Halsall, Lancashire #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

7 January 1918 Lt Roger Charles Marshall of the Royal Field Artillery died from pleurisy, and pneumonia. He was buried in St Mary's Churchyard Doddington and remembered on the Chatteris War Memorial (Cambs) Roger is also remembered at @pembroke1347.bsky.social #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

7 January 1916 2nd Lt Mark Moyle Brodies of 10 Bn Seaforth Highlanders was killed in action and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. He is also on the family memorial at Hendon Cemetery, London. Mark is remembered at his old college Queens College, Cambridge #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

7 January 1916 Lt Charles Sandford Ward of 10 Bn Royal Warwickshire Regiment was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Charles is also remembered at Eton College & Christ Church, Oxford #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Tobogganing on Prestwich Clough, Bury/North Manchester 26 January 1952 #History #HistoryMatters #Manchester #Bury #snow

Boggart Hole Clough, Weir, Manchester in 1893 The frozen weir on a very cold day. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snow #ice

Birch Hall, Rusholme, Manchester on 26 December 1906. Birch Hall was demolished in 1926 and its former site is now in the grounds of Manchester Grammar School. #History #HistoryMatters #Manchester #snow

6 January 1917 2nd Lt Thomas J Onslow of 5 Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry was killed in action and buried in Agny Military Cemetery. Thomas was 19. Thomas is also remembered at Magdalene College, Cambridge #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

6 January 1918 Captain Samuel Geoffrey Scott of the Royal Army Medical Corps died of pneumonia while on active service in Italy. He was buried in Giavera British Cemetery and Memorial Samuel is also remembered at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social and Clifton College #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

6 January 1917 2nd Lt William Joseph Cornwall Laurie of the 124th Duchess of Connaught’s Own Baluchistan Infantry was killed in action in Mesopotamia. He is buried in the Amara War Cemetery. William is also remembered at his old college Christ Church, Oxford #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

6 January 1919 Lt-Col George Buckston Browne of the Royal Field Army died of pneumonia contracted while on active service. He was buried in Christ Church, Doncaster. He also served in the Boer War. George is also remembered at @caiuscollege.bsky.social #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

6 January 1917 Pte John Green (52656) of 11 Bn Cheshire Regiment was died and was buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery. John was 19. John is remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

5 January 1916 Captain Alfred Stanley Marsh of 8 Bn Somerset Light Infantry was killed in action and was buried in Cité Bonjean Military Cemetery Alfred is also remembered at Trinity College, Cambridge #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

5 January 1918 Rev Edgar Noel Moore MC attached to 20 Bn The King's (Liverpool Regiment) was killed in action and buried in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground Transport Farm. There is also a memorial at St Mary's Church, Primrose Hill. Edgar is also remembered at Exeter College, Oxford #WW1 #History

5 January 1917 2nd Lt Howard Glynn Williams of the King's Royal Rifles Corps died from wounds sustained on active service. He was buried in Corwen Churchyard, Wales. He is also remembered on the Corwen Memorial Gates. Howard is also remembered at St Catharine's College, Cambridge #WW1 #History

Maine Road, Moss Side, Manchester Once the home of @mancity.com Oh them side streets! #History #HistoryMatters #Manchester #ManchesterCity #football #footballlegend

Granada TV outside broadcast truck outside Maine Road for the Manchester Derby 6 November 1971. Manchester City 3 - 3 The Stretford lot #History #HistoryMatters #Manchester #ManchesterCity #football #footballbanter #footballlegend

Heaton Hall and Park in the winter of 1906. The Hall and Park were purchased by @mancitycouncil.bsky.social in 1902 from Lord Wilton. #History #HistoryMatters #Manchester #snow

Grosvenor Street, from the corner of Oxford Road, All Saint's Manchester 1958. Manchester School of art is on the left facing what was Cavendish Independent Church now demolished and what was the Chorlton Union Office #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snow

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” T.S. Eliot, 26th September 1888 – 4th January 1965 #Poetry #Poet #English

The so-called “liberation” of Poland brought murder, rape, theft, and torture to a nation already suffering under the brutal German occupation. 4 January 1944, Soviet troops crossed Poland’s pre-war border, unleashing a new wave of war crimes. #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters #Poland

4 January 1916 Francis Gerald Hudson died in mysterious circumstances. He was the Vice-Consul of Aalesund where he was in charge of monitoring “200 miles of the Norwegian coast against contraband and the machinations of the enemy”. He is remembered at @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social #WW1 #History

4 January 1917 Alfred Coxon also known as Cox (10237) of 11 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension. Alfred is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

4 January 1919 2nd Lt George White Willis of 1st Aircraft Supply Depot, Reception Park, was killed in a flying accident and was buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery. George is also remembered at Radley College and Christ Church, Oxford #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Junction of Bury Old Road and Sheepfoot Lane Cottage (demolished November 1947) in Prestwich, 1 March 1931. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snow

Hulme Street, looking from Oxford Road, Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester. The picture was taken 2 February 1912. No days off for snow - get on with it! #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snow

Alexandra Park, Moss Side, Manchester 1905. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #SnowWhitememory #snow

Mosley Street, Manchester, Snowstorm, 1900 Sometimes the City Centre of Manchester was badly hit by snow storms - but not often these days. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snow

As it used to be! A Manchestr Horse-drawn Cab, on the Winter Cab Stand, Ardwick Green, Manchester 1900. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snowfall

Boggart Hole Clough, Blackley, Rochdale Rd Entrance, Manchester in 1909. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snowfall

The Old Parsonage, Didsbury, Manchester 1950. A Grade II listed building, next to the original village green of Didsbury. The building and gardens were left to the citizens of Manchester by Alderman Fletcher Moss in 1919. #History #Manchester #HistoryMatters #snowfall

3 January 1919 Alfred Henry Allcorn of 2/4 Bn Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Regiment died from diabetes brought on by active service. He was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford. Alfred is also remembered on the Merton College, Oxford Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

3 January 1918 2nd Lt Leonard George Colbeck MC of the Royal Field Artillery and former Middlesex County Cricket Club player died aboard HMS Ormonde and is commemorated on Hollybrook War Memorial. Leonard scored 107 for Cambridge in the Varsity game in 1905 #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

3 January 1919 Captain Alexander Thomson Orr the Assistant Chemist Advanced G.H.Q, Royal Engineers died from Broncho-pneumonia at No. 24 Casualty Clearing Station, Italy. Alexander is commemorated on the Holyhead War Memorial & at the University of Manchester #WW1 #History

The Old Mill, Dunham Park, Dunham Massey, Cheshire, 1875. At the time of this snow scene, Dunham Massey was under the ownership of George Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford. The earl was also President of the MCC. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #Cheshire #snow

Snow covered cottages, Poundswick, Wythenshawe in 1920. Wythenshawe estate at this time was still in the hands of the Egertons. Before the Poundswick we know today was built. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters #snow #Wythenshawe

2 January 1918 Fred Wheeler (108548) of the Royal Engineers and formerly of @southamptonfc.bsky.social player was killed in action and buried in Giavera British Cemetery, Arcade, Italy. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

2 January 1917 Olympic Cyclist and Gold Medal Winner Léon Flameng was killed while trialing a new Sopwith biplane near Ève, Oise, there was a technical incident forcing the plane to crash to the ground killing Flameng. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

2 January 1916 John Jarvie (S/11278) of 2 Bn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and former @lutontown.co.uk footballer was killed in action and buried in Cambrin Churchyard. John was 27. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

2 January 1918 Private Edward Oliver Harrop of the Lancashire Fusiliers and Cheadle, Cheshire died from wounds and buried in St Mary's Graveyard. Edward is commemorated on the Cheadle War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

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