It is a scene of Beech Road which will be familiar to many and was not that long ago.
I can’t now remember the exact date I took the picture, but it will be some time in the early 2000s, which is a lesson always to date photographs.
But this one I didn’t, but it will be in the region of seventeen years ago and perhaps a bit less.
And as you would expect almost all the shops have changed and most no longer sell anything other than food and booze.
Muriel and Richard’s is an estate agent, the deli is the Spanish tapas bar and stretching up the road only the clothes shop and Etchells are now trading.
Even the Nose has closed.
I could now state the obvious and reflect on the bar culture, bit won’t and instead I shall invite stories of the buildings in the picture.
And to start off I will offer up two, which are the red fronted building was Diamond Dogs opened by Martha and Atlanta in what had been Bryan the Books place, and next door was the Mr Jackson’s barber shop which was once taken over by a TV company who blew out the shop front during a scene in the show they were filming.
And Diamond Dogs has helped fasten the date because Martha reminded me she and Aalanta opened the cafe in 2002.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; Beech Road, circa 2002s, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
But this one I didn’t, but it will be in the region of seventeen years ago and perhaps a bit less.
And as you would expect almost all the shops have changed and most no longer sell anything other than food and booze.
Muriel and Richard’s is an estate agent, the deli is the Spanish tapas bar and stretching up the road only the clothes shop and Etchells are now trading.
Even the Nose has closed.
I could now state the obvious and reflect on the bar culture, bit won’t and instead I shall invite stories of the buildings in the picture.
And Diamond Dogs has helped fasten the date because Martha reminded me she and Aalanta opened the cafe in 2002.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; Beech Road, circa 2002s, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
The TV show was 'Bullman' we watched them filming that, theywere on at the builders on the corner to move their van so they could do a stunt when the window was blown out, they eventually parked it down by the bookies. they did the stunt, the driver lost control of the car and crashed into the builders van.....:)
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