Now I fully expected that this old building would have been swept away by now, but it continues to cling on despite the absence of any other contemporary buildings.
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It stands on Pollard Street just off Great Ancoats Street between what is left of Boond Street and Mundy Street.
I was first alerted to it by Angie who told me that
“it dates from 1889 and was the private dining rooms for Hetherington’s Vulcan Works on Pollard Street".*
I wrote about it back in July and said at the time I thought it would soon vanish from the scene.
And yet as Andy Robertson’s pictures show it is still there looking all the more forlorn with its boarded up windows and the gaping holes in its roof.
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Added to this the surrounding area is being filled by new flats which adds to the sense that this once proud and busy building has had its day.
But it hasn’t gone yet and maybe it won’t. With a bit of tender care, and a fair amount of money I reckon it could be back in business again, after all there must be plenty of people passing it on the tram who might just think they could do something with it.
I do hope so. Consent was granted back in 2013 to demolish it but it has yet to fall to the bulldozer.
But on the day the story was posted news came in from people passing that the fencing had gone up and I guess the next time I visit the place it will just be a hole in the ground with the promise of something new which if I am honest may not be as exciting.
Pictures; the old Hetherington’s Vulcan Works August 2014, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*Another little bit of our history soon to disappear? ............. Out on Pollard Street, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/another-little-bit-of-our-history-soon.html
I was first alerted to it by Angie who told me that
“it dates from 1889 and was the private dining rooms for Hetherington’s Vulcan Works on Pollard Street".*
I wrote about it back in July and said at the time I thought it would soon vanish from the scene.
And yet as Andy Robertson’s pictures show it is still there looking all the more forlorn with its boarded up windows and the gaping holes in its roof.
But it hasn’t gone yet and maybe it won’t. With a bit of tender care, and a fair amount of money I reckon it could be back in business again, after all there must be plenty of people passing it on the tram who might just think they could do something with it.
I do hope so. Consent was granted back in 2013 to demolish it but it has yet to fall to the bulldozer.
But on the day the story was posted news came in from people passing that the fencing had gone up and I guess the next time I visit the place it will just be a hole in the ground with the promise of something new which if I am honest may not be as exciting.
Pictures; the old Hetherington’s Vulcan Works August 2014, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*Another little bit of our history soon to disappear? ............. Out on Pollard Street, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/another-little-bit-of-our-history-soon.html
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