It’s odd just what you forget.
Now Richard and Muriel’s green grocer’s shop on Beech Road is remembered with fondness by many of us but its neighbour on the corner with Acres Road has long been a mystery to me.
I know that back at the beginning of the 20th century it was an iron mongers and later before the last world war was a cycle shop that also did repairs.
After that I am a bit hazy until in the late 70s it was briefly a piano shop before its long association with food and booze, first as Cafe on the Green and then a succession of bars and restaurants.
My old friend Marjorie remembered that after the war it became a hairdressers which in 1969 was listed as “Joan Newman ladies Hairdresser”.
And I just assumed that by the time I washed up on Beech Road in 1976 it was already a piano shop.
But not so because in 1979 I took this picture of Richard and Muriel’s and clearly it was still a hair dressers, which begs the question did I imagine the piano shop or have I just got my chronology a bit wrong?
Location; Chorlton
Picture; Beech Road, 1979, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
I know that back at the beginning of the 20th century it was an iron mongers and later before the last world war was a cycle shop that also did repairs.
After that I am a bit hazy until in the late 70s it was briefly a piano shop before its long association with food and booze, first as Cafe on the Green and then a succession of bars and restaurants.
And I just assumed that by the time I washed up on Beech Road in 1976 it was already a piano shop.
But not so because in 1979 I took this picture of Richard and Muriel’s and clearly it was still a hair dressers, which begs the question did I imagine the piano shop or have I just got my chronology a bit wrong?
Location; Chorlton
Picture; Beech Road, 1979, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
There was a piano shop for a short while
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