Now for all those who will wander down Beech Road this Sunday here is a list of the shops you could have visited almost half a century ago.
Of course back then it would have been pretty much just window shopping given that Sunday trading was very different from today.
In fact go back to the 1950s and buying a packet of butter, and some eggs was much more difficult.
It involved the shop keeper carefully wrapping the produce up with a warning not to tell anyone that she had sold you the food, it being a Sunday.
So one Sunday morning having bought the butter on Queens Road I left the shop feeling very guilty to walk the few hundred yards to our house on Lausanne Road.
It was the walk of fear and I spent it clutching hard the brown wrapper containing my act of illegality while all the time looking out for the local policeman to apprehend me.
Such were the joys and perils of shopping on a Sunday in 1958.
And with that over and out of the way I doubt that I will be alone in saying that a full seven years after our list of 1969 shops and businesses I remember buying cakes in Richardson's, looking into the window of the draper's shop next door, calling in at Joy Seal's, and passing the time with Mr Henderson.
All of which just leaves the regular trips to the Trevor and the odd fish supper from Mr Chan's.
And that's it ...... if you want more take your own trip of nostalgia.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Beech Road, 2017, from the collection of Roger Shelley and in 1969 from Slater’s Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1969 courtesy of Andy Robertson
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| Beech Road, 2017 |
In fact go back to the 1950s and buying a packet of butter, and some eggs was much more difficult.
So one Sunday morning having bought the butter on Queens Road I left the shop feeling very guilty to walk the few hundred yards to our house on Lausanne Road.
It was the walk of fear and I spent it clutching hard the brown wrapper containing my act of illegality while all the time looking out for the local policeman to apprehend me.
Such were the joys and perils of shopping on a Sunday in 1958.
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| A bit more of Beech Road in 1969 |
And with that over and out of the way I doubt that I will be alone in saying that a full seven years after our list of 1969 shops and businesses I remember buying cakes in Richardson's, looking into the window of the draper's shop next door, calling in at Joy Seal's, and passing the time with Mr Henderson.
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| And a bit of Beech Road in 2017 |
And that's it ...... if you want more take your own trip of nostalgia.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Beech Road, 2017, from the collection of Roger Shelley and in 1969 from Slater’s Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1969 courtesy of Andy Robertson
You can't beat a good bit of nostalgia .... great!
ReplyDeleteMrs Annie Pugh was the grandmother of Maralyn Pugh who I grew up with. We used to go there for shoes.
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