We are in Didsbury by the Old Cock Inn and the year is 1954.
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Just twenty or so years later I would use it as a dinner time haunt, but by then it had changed almost beyond recognition.
The shop and the garage doors had gone and that magnificent porch by the front door reduced in size.
Go back another fifty years and those garage doors didn’t exist instead the shop extended across to the end of the building.
All of which makes this photograph a nice period piece.
In the distance just popping above the tree line is what was once the chapel for the Methodist college but which had long since been converted into a library and lecture rooms first for the Methodist students and then for those young men and women training to be teachers.
The car parked outside clearly dates the picture as does the partially hidden sign for Emergency Water Supply.
The letters EWS could be found all over the city and date from the last war when extra water might be needed to fight fires during an air raid and when the water mains had been damaged.
Most have long since been painted over or have faded with age and when I went looking for this one it too had gone.
It might still have been there in 1974 but I can’t remember, that said I can date the picture to 1954 because it was one of a series produced by the Valentine Company in that year and while the photograph might be a tad earlier it won’t be much.
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Location; Didsbury
Picture; the Old Cock in 1954
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The shop and the garage doors had gone and that magnificent porch by the front door reduced in size.
Go back another fifty years and those garage doors didn’t exist instead the shop extended across to the end of the building.
All of which makes this photograph a nice period piece.
The car parked outside clearly dates the picture as does the partially hidden sign for Emergency Water Supply.
The letters EWS could be found all over the city and date from the last war when extra water might be needed to fight fires during an air raid and when the water mains had been damaged.
Most have long since been painted over or have faded with age and when I went looking for this one it too had gone.
It might still have been there in 1974 but I can’t remember, that said I can date the picture to 1954 because it was one of a series produced by the Valentine Company in that year and while the photograph might be a tad earlier it won’t be much.
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Picture; the Old Cock in 1954
Walking past in 54 to the Didsbury fair we went every year as children.
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