Altrincham then and now ……………..

Now yesterday I posted a picture of the Station Approach and New Stamford Street in Altrincham at the turn of the last century and bewailed the fact that I couldn’t find any of the photographs I had taken of the same place a few years ago.*

And quick as a flash George Cieslik came up with an even better one of the roads sometime around 1900, but alas nobody has sent over a modern image.

But all that is now put right because that tenacious photographer Andy Robertson, he of countless photographic projects dropped some off he taken in 2015, commenting” the best I could come up with, February 2015.

Well he needn’t have apologized because they were just what I wanted.

So here from George and Andy are two images of the place separated by perhaps a hundred years.

Location; Altrincham




Pictures; Station Approach and New Stamford Street in Altrincham, circa 1900 courtesy of George Cieslik, and in 2015 from the collection of Andy Robertson



*At Altrincham ......... looking for pictures, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/at-altrincham-looking-for-pictures.html