Now we are walking the subway between Bromley Street and Dalton Street and if you ever wanted to get a sense of the power and permanence of the railway these two pictures do it for me.
They are part of the new series by Andy Robertson, who one fine day this week walked out towards Collyhurst.
His journey took him from Miller Street via Dantzic Street and on to Collyhurst Road with a stop to capture the River Irk in full flow.
It is an area waiting for something to happen and with the onward march of the developer it won’t be long before flats, offices and shops fill the empty wasteland.
Of course it wasn’t always so, had Andy walked his walk, a century and a bit, the place would have looked very different.
A little to the south east there was the Rochdale Road Gas Works and in a bend in the river by what is now Warford Street there were two more gasometers while the rest was a maze of small streets filled with houses.
And for good measure just a short stroll away and there were dye works, and chemical works, a mill and a tannery all of which competed for noise with the railway and its complex of sidings known as Newton Sidings.
This was the busy but unfashionable bit of the city, and tomorrow there will be more.
Location; Manchester
Pictures; down by Bromley Street, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson, nd detail from the OS map of South Lancashire, 1894, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
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| 2018 |
His journey took him from Miller Street via Dantzic Street and on to Collyhurst Road with a stop to capture the River Irk in full flow.
It is an area waiting for something to happen and with the onward march of the developer it won’t be long before flats, offices and shops fill the empty wasteland.
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| 2018 |
A little to the south east there was the Rochdale Road Gas Works and in a bend in the river by what is now Warford Street there were two more gasometers while the rest was a maze of small streets filled with houses.
And for good measure just a short stroll away and there were dye works, and chemical works, a mill and a tannery all of which competed for noise with the railway and its complex of sidings known as Newton Sidings.
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| 1894 |
Location; Manchester
Pictures; down by Bromley Street, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson, nd detail from the OS map of South Lancashire, 1894, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
Lots of graffiti in this tunnel
ReplyDeleteBro, i gre up there in the late 70’s and early 80’s as a 5 yr old i would walk up that scary tunnel to St Patricks school… tear it down
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