I like this picture, which I am guessing is the morning rush hour, sometime in the 1930s.
Now I know it can’t be any later than 1938 because route 10 became a bus service in that year, with route 23 following the next year.
And for those wanting to know more, route 10, ran from Cheetham Hill to Alexandra Park via Deansgate, and number 23 went from Newton Heath to Chorlton via Junction and Brooks’s Bar.
I suppose it is just possible that we could be on a weekend in Spring, judging by the leaves on the trees and the number of overcoats.
The nerd in me is fascinated by the detail, which reveals that some of the houses on the corner of Beech and Barlow Moor Road have already become shops while the two two semis at the top of Beech Road have yet to be built.
Added to which there was a still a canopy running along the rear of the terminus.
But what I like most is the sheer volume of people going about their business, which can’t be matched in a rush hour today.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; tram terminus, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, circa 1930s, from the collection of Allan Brown
*Tram Services, Appendix 6, complied by Cliff Taylor, The Manchester Tramways, Ian Yearsley and Philip Groves, 1988
And for those wanting to know more, route 10, ran from Cheetham Hill to Alexandra Park via Deansgate, and number 23 went from Newton Heath to Chorlton via Junction and Brooks’s Bar.
I suppose it is just possible that we could be on a weekend in Spring, judging by the leaves on the trees and the number of overcoats.
Added to which there was a still a canopy running along the rear of the terminus.
But what I like most is the sheer volume of people going about their business, which can’t be matched in a rush hour today.
Picture; tram terminus, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, circa 1930s, from the collection of Allan Brown
*Tram Services, Appendix 6, complied by Cliff Taylor, The Manchester Tramways, Ian Yearsley and Philip Groves, 1988
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