I like this picture of the Rochdale Canal with the Central Station and the Beetham Tower.
It was one of a series Andy Robertson took a few days ago and neatly captures the changing skyline and also reveals more if you look more closely.
The canal runs from Castlefield up to the Dale Street Basin and cuts through the city and after decades of neglect is back as a working waterway.
In the same way some of the old railway track which ran into Central is now part of the Metro link while the old station has become the modern exhibition centre.
But what draws me is in the line of that ghost building to the left of the huge window and the ho;es in the brickwork which would have been for floor joists.
In time I shall go looking for the evidence of that ghost building and perhaps also descipher the ghost sign below the parapet.
Of course there may well be someone who can supply the answers and maybe come up with more of the history of this spot which for those who don’t know is the corner of Whitworth Street West and Albion Street.
Pictures; from the collection of Andy Robertson, 2014
The canal runs from Castlefield up to the Dale Street Basin and cuts through the city and after decades of neglect is back as a working waterway.
In the same way some of the old railway track which ran into Central is now part of the Metro link while the old station has become the modern exhibition centre.
In time I shall go looking for the evidence of that ghost building and perhaps also descipher the ghost sign below the parapet.
Of course there may well be someone who can supply the answers and maybe come up with more of the history of this spot which for those who don’t know is the corner of Whitworth Street West and Albion Street.
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