Now I am fully prepared to hear that many who call Salford their home will shake their heads with sad resignation about the new series “The cranes of Salford”.
And those cranes are pretty much everywhere helping build new blocks of flats and offices to multi story car parks.
They rise from open spaces which had once been factories, and warehouses along with those grand Edwardian shops and rows of terraced houses.
And in the midst of all this change Andy Robertson was on hand to record it and in the case of Collier Street captured the old and the new.
I will leave the debate on the worth of what was lost with the excitement of what is now going up to others, and just say before we get nostalgic for all those 19th century buildings, it is as well to remember that both the Victorians and Edwardians showed scant regard for the fine old properties which they swept away.
Location; Salford
Pictures; Collier Street, 2017, from the collection of Andy Robertson
And those cranes are pretty much everywhere helping build new blocks of flats and offices to multi story car parks.
And in the midst of all this change Andy Robertson was on hand to record it and in the case of Collier Street captured the old and the new.
I will leave the debate on the worth of what was lost with the excitement of what is now going up to others, and just say before we get nostalgic for all those 19th century buildings, it is as well to remember that both the Victorians and Edwardians showed scant regard for the fine old properties which they swept away.
Location; Salford
Pictures; Collier Street, 2017, from the collection of Andy Robertson
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