Another from the Chorlton of the 1970s

This is another of those scenes which countless photographers have taken over the years.

In the collection I have one from the around 1900 and another from three decades later, but what I like about this one is that soon after it was taken the scene would have changed forever.

We are in the winter of 1976 and within a few years the churchyard beyond that wall was landscaped and most of the gravestones taken away.

Later still the barn to our left just outside the camera shot was converted into residential properties and more recently the Horse and Jockey went through the start of the many alterations which have transformed its appearance adding the sitting area with its roof and heaters.

That said something of what has been lost can be seen again in earlier blogs of Chorlton in the 1970s.*

Picture; looking towards Chorlton green in 1976 from the collection of Lois Elsden

*Chorlton in the 1970s, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Chorlton%20in%20the%201970s