Now if like me you were born in the first half of the last century, grew up with free school milk, thrilled to the sound of She Loves You, and thought the light had gone out of the world at hearing of the death of Ottis Reading and Dr King, then the de-industrialization of great chunks of east and north Manchester will be familiar.
When I lived off Grey Mare Lane in the early 1970s, there were still plenty of steel and engineering works, and if Bradford Colliery had closed there was still Clayton Aniline and a host of small workshops, garages and yards within walking distance of our house.
But in the following two decades pretty much all of it has gone.
All of which makes Andy’s picture of one of the gates posts at the Oldham Road Goods Yard both sad and a reminder of what we have lost.
Not that this is nostalgic trip aimed to call back a golden age. Working down the mine or in a foundry could he hard and at times dangerous and the rewards were not always that good, but it was how many of us derived a living.
Location; Manchester
Picture; gate post, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson
But in the following two decades pretty much all of it has gone.
All of which makes Andy’s picture of one of the gates posts at the Oldham Road Goods Yard both sad and a reminder of what we have lost.
Not that this is nostalgic trip aimed to call back a golden age. Working down the mine or in a foundry could he hard and at times dangerous and the rewards were not always that good, but it was how many of us derived a living.
Location; Manchester
Picture; gate post, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson
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