Now there will be a lot of people with fond memories of the Crown on Blackfriars Street.
It was a pub I have always been meaning to go in and finally when I had the time and was in the right place I discovered it had closed.
And before anyone points out that it has been closed a long time, I shall just say “I knew that.”
More recently it was Cillians’s specialising in “Nails, Hair and Beauty.”
All of which makes this picture by John Casey a bit of history.
I think John took the photograph sometime in the 1980s and it comes from a collection he has kindly given me permission to use.
Comparing the scene with today I have to say it is an example of how things can only get better.
The rather ugly modern exterior of the property two doors up has had a makeover which I guess happened when it became The Gentry Grooming Co.
Likewise the two shops in between which sold LPs and wall paper looks a little more elegant as an Interior business but I bet the record shop was fun to visit.
And that is what makes John’s picture so important because we don’t do very recent history well.
A street scene from just twenty or thirty years ago hardly causes a stir and yet some of the most dramatic changes to our urban landscapes have happened very recently.
So I thank John for sharing his collection I will dip into them again and again.
Location; Blackfriars Road, circa 1980s
Picture; Blackfriars Street, circa 1980s from the collection of John Casey
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| Blackfriars Street circa 1980 |
And before anyone points out that it has been closed a long time, I shall just say “I knew that.”
More recently it was Cillians’s specialising in “Nails, Hair and Beauty.”
All of which makes this picture by John Casey a bit of history.
I think John took the photograph sometime in the 1980s and it comes from a collection he has kindly given me permission to use.
Comparing the scene with today I have to say it is an example of how things can only get better.
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| Blackfriars Street, 2016 |
Likewise the two shops in between which sold LPs and wall paper looks a little more elegant as an Interior business but I bet the record shop was fun to visit.
And that is what makes John’s picture so important because we don’t do very recent history well.
A street scene from just twenty or thirty years ago hardly causes a stir and yet some of the most dramatic changes to our urban landscapes have happened very recently.
So I thank John for sharing his collection I will dip into them again and again.
Location; Blackfriars Road, circa 1980s
Picture; Blackfriars Street, circa 1980s from the collection of John Casey
Why do you keep calling it Blackfriars Road, when it's clearly Blackfriars Street & is identified as such on the photos?
ReplyDeleteApologies Salford for confusing a road with a street, all changed, but facebook won't recognise the corrected title. So best read it on the blog first. Ah well, thanks to Sid for telling me. Must update my AtoZ
ReplyDeleteI was a regular in The Crown and Robinsons Records next door.
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