Now it all depends on how you come across Stevenson Place.
Enter it from Little Lever Street and you pass through a very narrow entry which on a cold day in late December with the light fading fast could be the prelude to a Dickensian story.
On the other hand were you to pass it from Lever Street it is more than likely it would strike you as an unremarkable courtyard with tall anonymous buildings on either side, coming almost to a dead end with just a narrow passage in the line of two properties.
And like all our lost and forgotten streets there will be stories here and a cursory glance at the maps of the mid 19th century show private dwellings which no doubt will give up their secrets when I plunge into the census returns.
But for now they act as a backdrop to the next bit of the project which is to encourage people to come up with their own nominations for the lost and forgotten streets.
Now I have shed loads more but it will be fun to see what others have.
Like Cromford Place which Maureen remembered.
She wondered if I had come across it, which I had but only by trawling the old maps.
It was one of those that went under the Arndale, and was accessed from Market Street or Corporation Street, and Maureen went on to tell me of the cafes and some of the posh places that were three.
Location; Manchester
Pictures; Stevenson Place, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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| From Little Lever Street, 2016 |
On the other hand were you to pass it from Lever Street it is more than likely it would strike you as an unremarkable courtyard with tall anonymous buildings on either side, coming almost to a dead end with just a narrow passage in the line of two properties.
And like all our lost and forgotten streets there will be stories here and a cursory glance at the maps of the mid 19th century show private dwellings which no doubt will give up their secrets when I plunge into the census returns.
But for now they act as a backdrop to the next bit of the project which is to encourage people to come up with their own nominations for the lost and forgotten streets.
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| From Lever Street, 2016 |
Like Cromford Place which Maureen remembered.
She wondered if I had come across it, which I had but only by trawling the old maps.
It was one of those that went under the Arndale, and was accessed from Market Street or Corporation Street, and Maureen went on to tell me of the cafes and some of the posh places that were three.
Location; Manchester
Pictures; Stevenson Place, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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