When there were cars in St Ann's Square

I like this picture of St Ann’s Square sometime in the late 1950s or early 60s.

It is how I first remember it, all full of cars with grimy soot encrusted statues of the worthy with the memorial to the Boer War away in the distance.

And in its way it is now as dated as those images from the beginning of the last century.

Picture; St Ann’s Square, from the series Manchester, Lillywhite, issued by Tuck & Sons, courtesy of TuckDB http://tuckdb.org/history