I am well aware that there are plenty of brick walls in Chorlton …. and few people ever bother to record them.
To which my friend Eric will be the first to ask “and why would anyone want to?”
To which the only reply is …… because they are there.
So here are two, taken off Beech Road in the last few days.
The first is the wall of the former Police Station, which has hosted an assortment of residents since the police left.
It stands almost on the site of the old gate house entrance to Beech House, and it's future remains uncertain, for while it is in a prime despite location there has been little interest in the property.
There will be a few who remember the air raid siren which topped the building, and that memorable moment in the 1980s when it went off at a moment when the Cold War took a more menacing turn.
And the other wall is the one down the side of the alley off Beech Road.
Location; Beech Road
Pictures; brick walls, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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| Making your mark, 2020 |
To which the only reply is …… because they are there.
So here are two, taken off Beech Road in the last few days.
The first is the wall of the former Police Station, which has hosted an assortment of residents since the police left.
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| Bricks, plants and pipes, 2020 |
There will be a few who remember the air raid siren which topped the building, and that memorable moment in the 1980s when it went off at a moment when the Cold War took a more menacing turn.
And the other wall is the one down the side of the alley off Beech Road.
Location; Beech Road
Pictures; brick walls, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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