I think this might be the last in the series of Didsbury in the 1960s.
I say that but I am sure it’s a promise I won’t keep.
This picture from 1967 is one of my favourites from the collection and features a building whose story I keep coming back to.*
For now I shall reflect that I doubt many of those sipping their coffee on Costa will know that the corner plot was once occupied by the National Coal Board, or that the distinctive ghost sign on the gable end was hidden under a layer of black paint.
What really caught mu interest was BSM Radio with its advert for BBC 2.
This was after all 1967, and until the arrival of BBC 2, we had just the two channels, which were black and white.
The first colour transmission I saw weas the following year, when in London at least BBC 2 broadcast live coverage of Wimbledon in colour.
Just how many of those passing along Wilmslow Road on that winter’s day had BBC 2 is unknown, but I doubt it will have been that many.
And in the same vein I wonder just who remembers Price’s the bakery shop, BSM Radio or Distinctive Fashions, which is now also part of Costa Coffee?
Location; Didsbury
Picture; Wilmslow Road, 1967, Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection, https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR35NR9v6lzJfkiSsHgHdQyL2CCuQUHuCuVr8xnd403q534MNgY5g1nAZfY
This picture from 1967 is one of my favourites from the collection and features a building whose story I keep coming back to.*
For now I shall reflect that I doubt many of those sipping their coffee on Costa will know that the corner plot was once occupied by the National Coal Board, or that the distinctive ghost sign on the gable end was hidden under a layer of black paint.
What really caught mu interest was BSM Radio with its advert for BBC 2.
This was after all 1967, and until the arrival of BBC 2, we had just the two channels, which were black and white.
Just how many of those passing along Wilmslow Road on that winter’s day had BBC 2 is unknown, but I doubt it will have been that many.
And in the same vein I wonder just who remembers Price’s the bakery shop, BSM Radio or Distinctive Fashions, which is now also part of Costa Coffee?
Location; Didsbury
Picture; Wilmslow Road, 1967, Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection, https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR35NR9v6lzJfkiSsHgHdQyL2CCuQUHuCuVr8xnd403q534MNgY5g1nAZfY
I certainly remember prices
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Toms the barbershop
The bike shop
And the cobblers all on wilmslow road
Merrills
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