Now there will be those who wonder at why Andy Robertson shared this picture of a door, and more might well want to know what stories might have happened behind it.
The door in question has been hidden for decades and once admitted customers to the Railway Inn which some will have fond memories of and others may only have glimpsed from the window of the tram.
I was one of those who saw it as the tram passed into the Cornbrook stop and long ago became fascinated by the remains of the pub which closed decades ago and was pretty much demolished, save for two walls.
Over the years I have written about it usually after Andy sent one of his pictures of the building chronicling its slow deterioration.*
But the door was always hidden but now for those who may once have walked through it, here is Andy’s picture with a tantalizing view of the space beyond.
I doubt that it has long left, because like so much of this bit of Cornbrook it will vanish to be replaced by another tall block of flats whose residents have no idea of what was once here.
Not that I am getting sentimental or nostalgic. The development of the area which included our pub will have in its turn replaced something else.
In the case of the Railway Inn or what was left of it, the surprise is that it lasted in its ruinous state for so long.
But as Cornbrook embraces the developers and new flats and offices rise from the derelict spaces I wish we had a few more stories of what the area was once like.
And that as they say is an invitation.
Pictures; of the Railway Inn, 2017 courtesy of Andy Robertson, and as it was in 1958, when E Stanley captured it, m 50339, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
*"See better days and do better things" ............ that ruin you see from the tram at Cornbrook, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/see-better-days-and-do-better-things.html
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| The door, 2017 |
I was one of those who saw it as the tram passed into the Cornbrook stop and long ago became fascinated by the remains of the pub which closed decades ago and was pretty much demolished, save for two walls.
Over the years I have written about it usually after Andy sent one of his pictures of the building chronicling its slow deterioration.*
But the door was always hidden but now for those who may once have walked through it, here is Andy’s picture with a tantalizing view of the space beyond.
I doubt that it has long left, because like so much of this bit of Cornbrook it will vanish to be replaced by another tall block of flats whose residents have no idea of what was once here.
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| The pub, 1958 |
In the case of the Railway Inn or what was left of it, the surprise is that it lasted in its ruinous state for so long.
But as Cornbrook embraces the developers and new flats and offices rise from the derelict spaces I wish we had a few more stories of what the area was once like.
And that as they say is an invitation.
Pictures; of the Railway Inn, 2017 courtesy of Andy Robertson, and as it was in 1958, when E Stanley captured it, m 50339, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
*"See better days and do better things" ............ that ruin you see from the tram at Cornbrook, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/see-better-days-and-do-better-things.html
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