In the last five years ..........

Beech Road continues to change. Just over thirty years ago, it had a hardware shop, green grocer’s two bakeries, two grocery shops and a haberdashery. Many of these can be seen on the Manchester Local Image collection at http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/448/archives_and_local_studies/326/photographs
Just go back another decade and we had more butchers, more grocery shops and a fish monger. In an age when few homes had fridges or freezers, shopping for fresh food meant a daily visit to the shops. Many people can still remember buying loose biscuits and having food weighed in front of them.
And now some familiar faces including the last greengrocer's have gone.
Photographs of The Nose, Murial's, Buonissimo, and Egerton Garden Centre from the collection of Andrew Simpson