Now there has been a flurry of comments across the social media platforms about the resurfacing work that is going on a pace across Chorlton.
And as ever to adapt President Abraham Lincoln, you can please all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot please all the people all the time.
So in the space of a few days we had those pinning for the lost of the stone setts and calling for the council to “leave our streets alone” to those who couldn’t abide the prospect of riding a bike or driving their car over the wibbly wobbly surface.
Added to which some people called them cobbles which they are not and no one picked up on the debate in the 19th century as to whether stone of wooden blocks would be better.
I do remember Dad coming home with wheelbarrows of the wooden variety lifted from the street round the corner and using them as fuel for our kitchen stove.
And this just left Andy Robertson to go out and photograph Oswald Road yesterday, and then remembering that there is a picture of Longford Road from the Lloyd Collection which regularly appears on the blog dating back to the early 20th century.
Enough said. Compare and contrast, answers on an old fashioned postcard, please.
And to start you off ...... anyone spot the litter?
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Oswald Road, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson and Longford Road circa 1900 from the Lloyd Collection
So in the space of a few days we had those pinning for the lost of the stone setts and calling for the council to “leave our streets alone” to those who couldn’t abide the prospect of riding a bike or driving their car over the wibbly wobbly surface.
Added to which some people called them cobbles which they are not and no one picked up on the debate in the 19th century as to whether stone of wooden blocks would be better.
And this just left Andy Robertson to go out and photograph Oswald Road yesterday, and then remembering that there is a picture of Longford Road from the Lloyd Collection which regularly appears on the blog dating back to the early 20th century.
Enough said. Compare and contrast, answers on an old fashioned postcard, please.
And to start you off ...... anyone spot the litter?
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Oswald Road, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson and Longford Road circa 1900 from the Lloyd Collection
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