This will be the last for a while of Andy's pictures of a train journey along the Ordsall Chord, but I am going to save the rest of the photographs for later.
What I like about them is that they offer up new views across the Twin Cities.
I know that along the way we lost a bit of our heritage down near the old Liverpool Road Railway Station and for that I ma sad.
But in the building of the bits that we have now lost, I doubt that the 19th century businessmen, speculators, engineers and navvies who brought the Liverpool and Manchester Railway across the Irwell gave much thought to the green fields, meadows and pleasing scenes which vanished.
Not perhaps a serious defence of what was demolished but a little unoriginal thought on progress.
And as Andy's pictures testify that progress is everywhere.
From the new blocks of flats that rise from the old empty Salford plots which have so long been tatty car parks to the new leisure complexes, like the Home and the YMCA.
They straddle both side of the Salford and Manchester divide.
Location; The Ordsall Chord
Pictures; the Ordsall Chord, 2017, from the collections of Andy Robertson
I know that along the way we lost a bit of our heritage down near the old Liverpool Road Railway Station and for that I ma sad.
But in the building of the bits that we have now lost, I doubt that the 19th century businessmen, speculators, engineers and navvies who brought the Liverpool and Manchester Railway across the Irwell gave much thought to the green fields, meadows and pleasing scenes which vanished.
And as Andy's pictures testify that progress is everywhere.
From the new blocks of flats that rise from the old empty Salford plots which have so long been tatty car parks to the new leisure complexes, like the Home and the YMCA.
Location; The Ordsall Chord
Pictures; the Ordsall Chord, 2017, from the collections of Andy Robertson
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