Now anyone who has been following the progress of that garage on the corner of Wilbraham and Buckingham Roads will like me be pleased that Andy Robertson has been including the work in his collection of photographs of changing Chorlton.
He has already documented the construction of the new school building at Oswald Road, keeps going back to the developments on Darley Avenue and had chronicled all that has gone on with the old Masonic Hall in Edge Lane.
But like him I have been fascinated by the garage.
It was once our variety theatre, and first cinema, and was transformed into a petrol station and shop, modernised in the 1970s and here is undergoing a new transformation.
When it and Andy have finished we will have a unique record of how a little bit of where we live was made over.
Pictures; the new petrol station and garage on Wilbraham Road courtesy of Andy Robertson
But like him I have been fascinated by the garage.
It was once our variety theatre, and first cinema, and was transformed into a petrol station and shop, modernised in the 1970s and here is undergoing a new transformation.
Pictures; the new petrol station and garage on Wilbraham Road courtesy of Andy Robertson
*The story of a garage, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/The%20story%20of%20a%20garage
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