Now there is that oft quoted observation, that if you count the number of cranes in the sky, that is a pretty good measure of the prosperity of a city.
Of course there will be those in Salford and for that matter in Manchester who might deplore all the new development.
Certainly you can’t move far without seeing a building site, hence Andy’s comment “Crane crazy”, but it does mean that the place is busy and that people want to settle here even if some of what is going up is less than attractive.
The historian in me wonders just want an observer in 1830 might have thought of the whole sale development of great chunks of Salford and over the river into that “other place”.
Some I expect would shudder and wish for the green fields, while others might nod with approval at how the twin cities were at the cutting age of business an innovation.
Just leaving those who had to live in the cheaply produced cottages and back to back properties, to mutter something else.
Location; Salford
Pictures; Salford Cranes, 2018 from the collection of Andy Robertson
Certainly you can’t move far without seeing a building site, hence Andy’s comment “Crane crazy”, but it does mean that the place is busy and that people want to settle here even if some of what is going up is less than attractive.
The historian in me wonders just want an observer in 1830 might have thought of the whole sale development of great chunks of Salford and over the river into that “other place”.
Some I expect would shudder and wish for the green fields, while others might nod with approval at how the twin cities were at the cutting age of business an innovation.
Just leaving those who had to live in the cheaply produced cottages and back to back properties, to mutter something else.
Location; Salford
Pictures; Salford Cranes, 2018 from the collection of Andy Robertson
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