Tuesday, 18 March 2014

What we have lost


Beech Road, from the corner of Wilton down towards Chequers Road in 1958.

It is hard today to remember that there was a time, still well with in living memory when shopping even for televisions was a local experience.
R.E. Stanley took a series of photographs in the November of 1958 perfectly capturing a world that that has long gone.

 Any one walking down Beech Road today from Wilton Road will encounter first the Laundrette, a ceramic shop specialising in hand painted pots and plates, a boutique and two galleries. 

And the road now boasts wine bars restaurants, and takeaways along with more clothes shops and gift shops.

True there is still the pet shop, a newsagent and the fish and chip shop, but the butchers and green grocers have long gone. A development which prompted a friend to mutter that the “place was fine for buying antique Victorian silk but don’t bother if you want a bag of potatoes”.

Picture; 32-38 Beech Road by R E Stanley, 1958 m 17654 Courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council.

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