Now here's a vanished scene, well almost.
They must date from before 2000, when I swapped smelly photography for digital.
And as you do the last old fashioned photographs were consigned to that very special box, on the equally special shelf, and promptly forgotten for decades.
In the intervening years, Bob and Del rented out the deli to Marcus who retained the name, but then moved on, which is how we now have that fine Spanish tapas bar, while next door Muriel and Richard retired and the last fruit and veg shop became a letting agency.
Nor was that all, because bit by bit Beech Road, slipped effortlessly into a strip of bars, cafés, restaurants and interesting shops.
All of which might well be summed up by the place on the corner with Acres Road, which I remember as a piano shop and and closed for better things.
And without ever wanting to sound like Methuselah I can claim to have eaten there from when it first opened as Café on the Green, and later when it was known variously as Blue Note, the Nose and Marmalade and the Parlour.
They must date from before 2000, when I swapped smelly photography for digital.
In the intervening years, Bob and Del rented out the deli to Marcus who retained the name, but then moved on, which is how we now have that fine Spanish tapas bar, while next door Muriel and Richard retired and the last fruit and veg shop became a letting agency.
Nor was that all, because bit by bit Beech Road, slipped effortlessly into a strip of bars, cafés, restaurants and interesting shops.
All of which might well be summed up by the place on the corner with Acres Road, which I remember as a piano shop and and closed for better things.
And without ever wanting to sound like Methuselah I can claim to have eaten there from when it first opened as Café on the Green, and later when it was known variously as Blue Note, the Nose and Marmalade and the Parlour.
And since the Parlour a heap more
Location; Beech Road
Pictures; Beech Road; sometime before now, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Love all your Chorlton posts Andrew, they bring back sweet Chorlton-cum-Hardy, thank you.
ReplyDeleteHi, Georgina and I started Cafe On The Green after converting it from an old disused piano shop. The Lime Tree crowd from Didsbury followed with the Lead Station - and the rest if history. Seems a long time ago now - just over 30 years in fact.
ReplyDeleteBobs shop was an off licence back in the sixties
ReplyDeleteRichard and Marie used to let me chose a piece of fruit every morning on the way to school. Loved growing up there x
ReplyDeleteMy sister Karen and Brother in law, Paul had their wedding reception at BlueNote. It was a fabulous day and night. They said we are a public bar so we will have to let members of the public in after 8! There was absolutely no room for them ! I think the whole of Chorlton turned up! Great memories, 25 years on.
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