This is Beech Road as it was just forty years ago.
Where today there is a studio, a gallery, and a clothes shop, there was a flower shop which offered a selection of fruit and veg as a side line, an old fashioned hardware store and Dave the Butcher.
Now if you are of a certain age the smell of a hardware shop is a powerful reminder of how we once did things.
The floor was invariably always the bare timbers, and there was that pungent smell of paraffin, and waxed string.
You could buy anything from a small nut and bolt, to sheets of brown wrapping paper and sealing wax.
And had I been on Beech Road a full decade earlier I could have asked Mr Heger, the relative merits of pink paraffin, and just how many nails I would need to fasten down a lose floor board.
That said back then we did have our own photographic shop which traded from what is now Pottery Corner.
So some things haven’t changed.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; Beech Road, 1979 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Now if you are of a certain age the smell of a hardware shop is a powerful reminder of how we once did things.
The floor was invariably always the bare timbers, and there was that pungent smell of paraffin, and waxed string.
You could buy anything from a small nut and bolt, to sheets of brown wrapping paper and sealing wax.
And had I been on Beech Road a full decade earlier I could have asked Mr Heger, the relative merits of pink paraffin, and just how many nails I would need to fasten down a lose floor board.
That said back then we did have our own photographic shop which traded from what is now Pottery Corner.
So some things haven’t changed.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; Beech Road, 1979 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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