There is a gap in pictures of Chorlton, and it is pretty much the time between the 1960s and now.
Before then, there were still plenty of professional photographer’s who took pictures of local landmarks and private residences, which they sold on to commercial picture post card companies and individuals.
But all that fell out of fashion, as fewer people bought picture postcards and more people came to own cameras.
And what had been the carefully composed “professional study” became the family snap, which then were locked way in family albums, or more recently sit on a mobile phone or on a computer.
All of which is a shame because these family snaps offer up a wealth of detail about how we lived not that long ago.
So here is one of Beech Road, taken in 1975 and sent to me by Jude Eccles.
The focus is of course the two youngsters in the pram and a proud dad, but look closely and there are little insights to a Beech Road before the bar culture.
To our leftist is the old Police Station which back then was still offices for the City Council and next to it the Wool shop, Joy Seal’s Chemist and the Chinese takeaway.
Across the road, the factory beside Row House will have been in full production in what had once been a laundry and down in what had been the Co-op, would soon be the home of Strippo, which for a reasonable price would strip away decades of paint and created the pine look which was replicated with sanded wooden floors.
Leaving me just to point out that in the distance just out of sight was the Oven Door Bakery and to correct a slight slip.
Jude tells me that, "the proud dad is only dad to the little boy with the red hair. They lived across the road from us on Beaumont road. The other boy is my twin brother. The buggy is our twin buggy which they must have borrowed".
Brilliant! We too had one of those twin buggies along with the big Princess prams, ..... so perhaps a series on Chorlton prams is on its way.
Location; Beech Road
Picture; Beech Road, 1975, from the collection of Jude Eccles.
But all that fell out of fashion, as fewer people bought picture postcards and more people came to own cameras.
And what had been the carefully composed “professional study” became the family snap, which then were locked way in family albums, or more recently sit on a mobile phone or on a computer.
All of which is a shame because these family snaps offer up a wealth of detail about how we lived not that long ago.
So here is one of Beech Road, taken in 1975 and sent to me by Jude Eccles.
The focus is of course the two youngsters in the pram and a proud dad, but look closely and there are little insights to a Beech Road before the bar culture.
Across the road, the factory beside Row House will have been in full production in what had once been a laundry and down in what had been the Co-op, would soon be the home of Strippo, which for a reasonable price would strip away decades of paint and created the pine look which was replicated with sanded wooden floors.
Leaving me just to point out that in the distance just out of sight was the Oven Door Bakery and to correct a slight slip.
Jude tells me that, "the proud dad is only dad to the little boy with the red hair. They lived across the road from us on Beaumont road. The other boy is my twin brother. The buggy is our twin buggy which they must have borrowed".
Brilliant! We too had one of those twin buggies along with the big Princess prams, ..... so perhaps a series on Chorlton prams is on its way.
Location; Beech Road
Picture; Beech Road, 1975, from the collection of Jude Eccles.
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