Now whatever you might have thought of Gavel Lane I doubt that it deserved to become just one big car park.
But that is pretty much all it offers from the moment you reappear from under the railway viaduct and head north past King Street, Norton Street and Queen Street to Greengate.
In all I counted five big cark parks where once there were houses, shops two pubs a beer shop, a chapel and even a school.
Today, while there are some tall flats on the corner with Viaduct Street and that glass office bock that straddles Gravel Lane and Greengate the rest of the street is an open landscape which is a home for cars.
All of which presents me with a puzzle, because sometime in 1900 that veteran photographer Samuel L Coulthurst took the picture of the Jolly Carter on Gravel Lane.
Of course I cannot believe he got the pubs name wrong but according to the directories for the period from 1895 through to 1903 there is no Jolly Carter on Gravel Lane.
There is instead the British Queen on the corner of Queen Street, a beer shop at nu 63 and finally the Legs of Man at 67 Gravel Lane.
So it does seem he mistook the name, which I think was the Legs of Man which stood on the corner of Gravel Lane and Greengate and is now under that glass office box.
Of course there will be someone who knows and I hope will come up with a solution to the problem.
As it was judging by the closed shutters and empty streets Mr Coulthurst had no one to ask.
In the meantime it just leaves me to point out that the wall to wall advertising of household products is not new and nor is the amount of litter that was strewn across the street.
And that is not all because before I made the second coffee of the morning Alan had written in with, "yes this is the Jolly Carter, it stood on the corner of Cable Street and Gravel Lane, it was used as a beer house for 60 years or so prior to its demolition in 1893 for 'Railway use.'"
So a thank you to Alan, apologies to Mr Coulthurst and a reminder to dig deeper into the directories.
Location; Salford
Additional research Alan Jennings
Picture; the Jolly Carter, Gravel Lane, 1900, Samuel L Coulhurst, m08787, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
In all I counted five big cark parks where once there were houses, shops two pubs a beer shop, a chapel and even a school.
Today, while there are some tall flats on the corner with Viaduct Street and that glass office bock that straddles Gravel Lane and Greengate the rest of the street is an open landscape which is a home for cars.
All of which presents me with a puzzle, because sometime in 1900 that veteran photographer Samuel L Coulthurst took the picture of the Jolly Carter on Gravel Lane.
There is instead the British Queen on the corner of Queen Street, a beer shop at nu 63 and finally the Legs of Man at 67 Gravel Lane.
So it does seem he mistook the name, which I think was the Legs of Man which stood on the corner of Gravel Lane and Greengate and is now under that glass office box.
Of course there will be someone who knows and I hope will come up with a solution to the problem.
As it was judging by the closed shutters and empty streets Mr Coulthurst had no one to ask.
In the meantime it just leaves me to point out that the wall to wall advertising of household products is not new and nor is the amount of litter that was strewn across the street.
And that is not all because before I made the second coffee of the morning Alan had written in with, "yes this is the Jolly Carter, it stood on the corner of Cable Street and Gravel Lane, it was used as a beer house for 60 years or so prior to its demolition in 1893 for 'Railway use.'"
So a thank you to Alan, apologies to Mr Coulthurst and a reminder to dig deeper into the directories.
Location; Salford
Additional research Alan Jennings
Picture; the Jolly Carter, Gravel Lane, 1900, Samuel L Coulhurst, m08787, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
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