So who took the name sign of the Railway Inn at Cornbrook?

Now there is that old saying about stealing pennies from a blind man which might well apply to the missing sign above what is left of the Railway Inn on the corner of Cornbrook Road and Dover Street.*

Time hasn’t been kind to the remains of the place.

But the stealing of the sign seems to be the last straw.

Of course it may have been taken down to preserve it in which case it should in the fullness of time appear in a museum but I suspect it is more likely it now graces someone’s house having been sold on by the person or persons who took it down.

There will be those who say that even this is better than just letting it slowly decay but I am not so sure.

Of course even a pub sign has a history even if this one will date from recently and as such there is an argument for its preservation but equally taking it away robs it of its context.

All of which leaves me wondering where it has gone and whether it will ever be seen by the public again.

I owe both pictures to Andy Robertson who having taken the first image last year and by chance was passing again to record this little bit of vandalism



Pictures; the Railway Inn, 2014, and 2015 from the collection of Andy Robertson

*Cornbrook, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Cornbrook