Now I wonder what a future local historian will make of this row of houses on Moss Lane East.
Look closely and two of those on our left are clearly not the same as the rest of the design.
Of course some will mutter so what, but there is a story here and it is one that I guess will soon be lost as memories fade and the residents move on.
I have to admit I had no idea of the story until Andy sent me these pictures he took between February 2014 and this month.
And even then I doubt I would have turned up the tale had I not gone looking for Moss Lane East on Google maps and by chance turned up a story by Amy Glendining from November 2013.
I am not one to lift another’s research so I shall just say that the row which the Council had wanted redevelop in the 1980s and later still demolish fell through because the owners of those two “different houses” refused to budge.
It led to one of those simple compromises which left the two still standing and incorporated them in a new design.
The original story is well worth reading and I hope will still be around in the future when some one ponders on the history of this row of houses.
Pictures, Moss Lane East , February 2014, and June 2015, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*Row of shops demolished for new houses – but two residents are staying put, Manchester Evening News, Amy Glendining, November 21 2013, http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-moss-side-shops-demolished-6323146
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| Moss Lane East 2015 |
Of course some will mutter so what, but there is a story here and it is one that I guess will soon be lost as memories fade and the residents move on.
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| Moss lane East 2014 |
And even then I doubt I would have turned up the tale had I not gone looking for Moss Lane East on Google maps and by chance turned up a story by Amy Glendining from November 2013.
I am not one to lift another’s research so I shall just say that the row which the Council had wanted redevelop in the 1980s and later still demolish fell through because the owners of those two “different houses” refused to budge.
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| 2014 |
The original story is well worth reading and I hope will still be around in the future when some one ponders on the history of this row of houses.
Pictures, Moss Lane East , February 2014, and June 2015, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*Row of shops demolished for new houses – but two residents are staying put, Manchester Evening News, Amy Glendining, November 21 2013, http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-moss-side-shops-demolished-6323146
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