This was 31 Liverpool Road in 2016.
Now I say that because I haven’t been down to see the progress on the redevelopment of the property since the lockdown.
It had been a sweet shop and newsagents and I can still remember buying stuff from it during the early 2000s.
But like many of the shops on this stretch of Liverpool Road, its days as a traditional small retail outlet were almost over.
Already the shop next door which had been a TV repair shop and the insurance company had closed, and so I wasn’t surprised that Castlefield News had ceased trading sometime between 2008 and 2009, and that a plan to turn it into an art gallery had been given planning permission in 2016.
Now there will be someone who can tell me what progress has been made, but I know that in July of 2019 the property was still boarded up but work had been done to replace the large workshop window on the third floor while preparations were being made to add a new window on the 2nd floor.
The heritage report which accompanied the planning documents suggest a date of between 1820 and 1830, but I rather think they date from sometime between 1793, and the following year. They are missing from Laurent’s map of 1793 but are there on Green’s map of 1794.
And as you do I have become interested in the property.
In 1901 it was occupied by Miss Mary Ann Sturgess who ran a secondhand furniture business with a brother. She was still there in 1903 but by 1911 was living around the corner at 7 Collier Street and described herself as a “Dressmaker”.
No. 7 has gone, but it looks to have been a small property occupying just two rooms.
All of which will require more research which in turn will take me into the life of Miss Sturgess, who I know was born in 1868, baptized at St Matthew's on Liverpool Road in the same year and died in 1932.
So, lots more to uncover.
Location; Liverpool Road
Pictures; Liverpool Road, 2016 and circa 2007, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
* Change of use of building to an art gallery/shop (sui generis), or Shop (A1), or Office (B1) at ground floor and a residential apartment on the first and second floors (C3), including installation of new shop front and replacement of windows to the rear elevation and the first floor front elevation.
31 Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4NQ Manchester City Council Planning Portal,
Ref. No: 109234/FO/2015/C1 | Validated: Thu 31 Mar 2016 | Status: Decided https://pa.manchester.gov.uk/online-applications/pagedSearchResults.do?action=page&searchCriteria.page=2
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| No. 31, 2016 |
Now I say that because I haven’t been down to see the progress on the redevelopment of the property since the lockdown.
It had been a sweet shop and newsagents and I can still remember buying stuff from it during the early 2000s.
But like many of the shops on this stretch of Liverpool Road, its days as a traditional small retail outlet were almost over.
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| In happier times, 2006 |
Now there will be someone who can tell me what progress has been made, but I know that in July of 2019 the property was still boarded up but work had been done to replace the large workshop window on the third floor while preparations were being made to add a new window on the 2nd floor.
The heritage report which accompanied the planning documents suggest a date of between 1820 and 1830, but I rather think they date from sometime between 1793, and the following year. They are missing from Laurent’s map of 1793 but are there on Green’s map of 1794.
And as you do I have become interested in the property.
In 1901 it was occupied by Miss Mary Ann Sturgess who ran a secondhand furniture business with a brother. She was still there in 1903 but by 1911 was living around the corner at 7 Collier Street and described herself as a “Dressmaker”.
No. 7 has gone, but it looks to have been a small property occupying just two rooms.
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| And in 2005 |
So, lots more to uncover.
Location; Liverpool Road
Pictures; Liverpool Road, 2016 and circa 2007, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
* Change of use of building to an art gallery/shop (sui generis), or Shop (A1), or Office (B1) at ground floor and a residential apartment on the first and second floors (C3), including installation of new shop front and replacement of windows to the rear elevation and the first floor front elevation.
31 Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4NQ Manchester City Council Planning Portal,
Ref. No: 109234/FO/2015/C1 | Validated: Thu 31 Mar 2016 | Status: Decided https://pa.manchester.gov.uk/online-applications/pagedSearchResults.do?action=page&searchCriteria.page=2
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