We all remember those rows of little shops selling anything and everything you might want.
All of which was to the good when there were few supermarkets and few of us owned cars to get to do the big shop.
So with that in mind Andy Robertson was on Sandy Lane with his camera and followed it up with a bit of research on what you could have bought as you made your way down from Cleveleys corner.
Now that should start the memories going.
“Costcutter is the only shop now on that first block, but in 1969 from Cleveleys corner there was at
54 a grocer
56 a turf accountant
58 a grocer
60/2 a butcher
66 agrocer
(Whalley Avenue)
68 a plumbers
72 another plumber
74a hardware dealer
76/78/80 private residences
82 tobacconist”
Research © Andy Robertson
Pictures; Sandy Lane, September 2014, from the collection of Andy Robertson
So with that in mind Andy Robertson was on Sandy Lane with his camera and followed it up with a bit of research on what you could have bought as you made your way down from Cleveleys corner.
Now that should start the memories going.
54 a grocer
56 a turf accountant
58 a grocer
60/2 a butcher
66 agrocer
(Whalley Avenue)
68 a plumbers
72 another plumber
74a hardware dealer
76/78/80 private residences
82 tobacconist”
Research © Andy Robertson
Pictures; Sandy Lane, September 2014, from the collection of Andy Robertson
Just discovered your blog, so doing a bit of backtracking! My family have lived in Chorlton for the past 55 years. We first moved to Sandy Lane, then Dartmouth Road and then Zetland Road. When we first moved to Chorlton, my Dad, Peter Burns, owned the Plumber's shop, Rowbotham & Son, at 68 Sandy Lane. Together with my two brothers, the family lived above the shop, until we moved to Dartmouth Road.
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DeleteI remember you and your family well. In fact your father put a new window in my parents bedroom at 17 dartmouth.
Your brother and me were friends and in the same class at chorlton park juniors. I remember your parents moved to a house on zetland road.
You invited me and my sister to a bonfire night firework night in your garden. I remember there was a swing on a tree and you strummed a guitar rather well.
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DeleteI remember Rowbottom and Son, did you also have a flat to rent at the back? Do you remember Alan the Butcher?
DeleteWe had a flat above the shop and 2 garages and a work yard at the back. I remember the butcher's shop well, but only have a vague recollection of Alan.
DeleteI lived on Brookfield Avenue from 1979-1983 before moving to Corkland Road. I remember buying halfpenny sweets from one of the shops on that parade and then when they knocked them down to build the red brick houses which stand there today. Throughout the 1980s what's now Costcutter was Anwars and on the opposite side of Cleveley's corner was Hughes newsagency. I spent most of my pocket money there.
ReplyDeleteMy other memories of growing up near these shops include the rag and bone man who used to come riding around on a horse-drawn cart and there were always stray dogs roaming around in the park which was a bit scary as a 4-5 year old! I feel that Chorlton of that time had more in common with the world my grandparents lived in than the one my kids inhabit.
ReplyDeleteChrisN - I remember you as I lived on Dartmouth road too. Your brother Michael and me were in the same class at chorlton park juniors.
ReplyDeleteI remember your family moved to zetland road and you invited me and my sister to a bonfire night. There was a rope swing in your garden.
greg mcnulty
I remember you strumming a guitar very well.
The turf accountant was Arthur Roye and the window was red. As a ten year old I was puzzled by what a turf accountant was.
ReplyDeleteWe lived on Dartmouth and I was often send to the grocer for king edwards or lincolns and the butcher for mince meat.
The sweet and paper shop on the corner of cleveleys was Mr Forrester. There was another sweet shop tobacconist in the line of shops run by Mr Brailsford. He later moved up sandy lane
greg mcnulty
Alan the Butcher!
Delete"Any old rags, rag bone"
ReplyDeleteAlso the marching band of the boys' brigade some sundays.
52 Sandy Lane, corner shop, sweet shop and newsagents. My parents shop K Forrest (Kathleen and Alan Forrest) 1963 to 1971. Barbara Forrest (as was).
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