A trip after school to take the kids to the Manchester Museum on Oxford Road. The trip although a quick one was so they could buy some toy dinosaurs after getting good school reports for this past school year.

I will through this collection be showing the preperations for Manchester's Metrlink tram systems extension to Chorlton. This work includes putting track back intot the disused track bed between Trafford Bar and Chorlton. Thereby partly reconstructing the old South District Line from Manchester's Central Station (now an exhibition centre, recently re-named), which the line will pass on its way out of Manchester.

The line was last used for normal passenger traffic on Sunday 1st January 1967 which was 87 years to the day after they began. As well as being used for local services, some London bound traffic also used this line. Now the current plan is for the line to be relaid as far as Chorlton with modern Metrolink trams, with at least one stop reintroduced at Chorlton, although the site of the former Chorlton-cum-Hardy railway station and goods yard is now the site of a Morrison's supermarket. Further plans hope to see this current extension, extended once again as far as East Didsbury, which is further along the same disused railway line.

A collection of photo's taken either of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, or from the grounds of the observatory looking out towards London's Docklands on a wet drizzly sunday afternoon.

This collection of photos are of items which at this moment in time, do not warrant their own seperate collection.