“Rubble at Mill” .......... down by the Duke’s Canal at Hulme Hall Road

It has been sometime since I have featured the story of the building at Hulme Hall Road.

It was a subject I regularly covered as Andy Robertson, visited the site after a fire had ripped through the building, and he then went back recording its demolition.

And now he has returned, with a new series of pictures which I suspect will have the promise of many more.

In the intervening period Derek the Developer has got there and the posters along the side of the site announce “CANALSIDE LIVING IN THE HEART OF HISTORIC MANCHESTER” with "one, two and three bedroom apartments”.to the sky in a huge block

The finished project, judging from the artist’s impression will rise eight stories into the sky.

It is not on a par with the giant towers which are springing up nearby but is in keeping with others in the vicinity.

But it does look big.

So, where once tall warehouses, factories and mills stood by the canal side, we now have equally tall blocks of apartments, reflecting that move from manufacture to "Canalside living".

I could say more but will await events.

That said I will close with the image which prompted Andy’s title of “Rubble at Mill”.

Location; Hulme Hall Road







Pictures; Hulme Hall Road, from the collection of Andy Robertson