Now, without wanting to call any one old ….. I think if you can admit to being a regular of The Railway in Cornbrook, you will indeed qualify for a concessionary travel pass, or at best remember with fondness the “swinging 60s” and that most misunderstood decade which was the 1970s.
It stood on the corner of Cornbrook Road and Dover Street, but closed long ago, although it lingered on with its walls and even its sign still intact.
Sadly by the time I regularly clocked it, it had lost its roof and upper story.
And its survival became one of Andy’s projects, which like many of his other projects involved revisiting the site at frequent intervals recording the state of what was left.
Each visit was followed up by a blog story, so that together there is a record of the slow demise of this lost Manchester pub.*
Yesterday, Andy was back with a series of new pictures, commenting “What's left of the Railway is clinging on for dear life while its neighbour, the Mancunian Spring Company, has bitten the dust”.
So, for all those new residents of Cornbrook, who inhabit the smart new blocks of flats, here is a reminder of what the area was once like, when factories, warehouses, and rows of terraced houses existed side by side, and the Railway was a place to visit.
Location Cornbrook
Pictures; The Railway Inn, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson, and as it was in 1958, when E Stanley captured it, m 50339, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
*The pub with no door ........ the Railway Inn on Cornbrook Road, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-pub-with-no-door-railway-inn-on.html
A bit of old Cornbrook revealed, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-bit-of-old-cornbrook-revealed.html
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