I was slow to clock the latest developments to the transformation of 93 Beech Road, from bakery and confectioner to the Dough House.
Actually to be more accurate I have watched the work being done over the last few months but was going to wait till it opened, but then I became more and more intrigued by the wooden beams which will support a roof canopy.
And that led me back the City Councils’ planning portal which offers up chapter and verse on the plans to redevelop the frontage to 93 and 95 Beech Road.*
Ever since I came to Chorlton in the 1970s this was Richardson’s the Bakers which opened in 1947, and until its closure was one of the oldest businesses in Chorlton, if not the oldest.
That title has now passed to Ken Foster and his cycle shop on Barlow Moor Road.
But the Dough House will offer up a continuity in that it will be baking its pizzas on site, and will continue a bakery tradition which goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, when Mr. John Hill turned out bread and cakes from nu. 93.
There is more but I think I will wait till the business opens.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; 93 Beech Road, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
* Manchester City Council Planning Portal, 124700/FO/2019, https://pa.manchester.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=PX6ZGPBCHXH00
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