Still in Martledge in 1910 with Red Gate Farm in the distance

Yesterday we were in Martledge around 1910 just beyond the junction of Barlow Moor and Wilbraham Road.

Today we have moved just a little further along and looking down towards Manchester Road with Red Gate Farm in the distance behind the tram.

Until quite recently Manchester Road was a continuous thoroughfare which crossed Wilbraham Road and by degree twisted and turned all the way to West Point.

But the development of the precinct and the building of the car park cut the road, and so while once it ran on beside Sedge Lynn and Barlow Moor Road past the farm which became the library now it is in two halves.

What I like about the image are the trees which front the houses on our right, all now vanished save for a few spindly ones on the kerb side.

And there also is what I think will be one of the orginal street lamps.

Picture; from the Lloyd Collection, circa 1910