Dr Tony Shaw

Near Saint Peter's Square, Stockport: "STOCKPORT GARRICK SOCIETY The country's oldest 'Little Theatre' was ...

I could hardly believe it when I arrived in Stockport: there were frogs all over! Giant ones! An odd feeling came over me when I thought ba...

This post updates and corrects a former one I made last year on William Hoyle, and I'm very grateful to Frances Mary Clifford for po...

In a way, particularly at the beginning of this book, which is non-fiction, it could be said that much of it deals with the writer and mu...

Rosa Grindon donated the Shakespeare window, which stands at the main entrance to the Central Library in Manchester, in memory of her hus...

'CHERISHED MEMORIES OF ERIC (Sketchbook) THOMPSON, THE DEAREST DARLING HUSBAND OF MARJORIE, WHO LOST HIS LIFE IN THE MUNICH...

'THE SHRINE OF BELOVED LEO. H. GRINDON. MOST GENTLE AND WINSOME, TEACHER OF NATURE'S WAYS. HE JOINED THE COMMUNION ...

'IN LOVING MEMORY OF GEORGE FREEMANTLE, who died May 21st. 1864 aged 61 years.'     'This memorial was erected...

The superb Gorton Monastery, Gorton, Manchester, UK, is the popular name for the Saint Francis Church and Friary. Built by Franciscan fr...

I'd looked for Lemn Sissay's wall poem 'RAIN' several years ago, but it may have been the foliage in front of it that pr...