Pass me the chips and Halloumi Saganaki ......... the new place on Beech Road

 

This is one of those little bits of Beech Road history, which is changing.

I am standing outside what was the Parlour, as it goes through its transformation into Suburban Green.

Parlour closed many years ago and apart from a brief moment when it was taken over by San Juan it has sat empty.

Judging by the work so far the intention is to give it a similar appearance to its fellow restaurant in  Wilmlsow.

And I suppose the historian in me will miss the old frontage which apart from the addition of the Acres Road extension was not so different from what it looked like at the turn of the last century.

The building has had a varied history, starting off as a hardware shop, becoming a hair dressers and then  briefly selling pianos, before settling down for its long association with food.

And without ever wanting to sound like Methuselah I can claim to have eaten in the place when it first opened as Cafe on the Green, and later when it was known variously as Blue Note, the Nose and Marmalade before reopening as the Parlour.

So because I can here are a few pictures of the place as it slowly evolved into the Parlour.

Leaving me just to observe that while the new restaurant is already beginning to look like Suburban Green, the evidence of its previous incarnation has yet to be taken down.

So, that is it.  I could of course just make the observation that the entire stretch of land from Acres Road up to Chequers was Blomely's Fish pond, which vanished sometime in the 1870s, and that according to our local historian, Mr. Ellwood a small water course ran the length of Acres Road which was paved over.

But that is for another time.

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; the transformation into Suburban Green, the Nose, Marmalade,  and the Parlour, 1990s-2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*Surburban Green, https://www.suburban-green.co.uk/