Now Mayfield is back in the news.
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| Mayfield Railway Station, 2020 |
It’s the area just a little east of London Road and situated in the loop of the River Medlock.
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| Mayfield, 1819 |
In 1857 it got a set of Public Baths and Washhouse and in 1910 a Railway Station.
By the last decades of the last century, it had become a sorry place, having lost the Baths to enemy action during the last world war and its railway station to rationalization.
Added to which most of the industrial buildings had also gone along with the residential properties.
All of which made it ripe for development which is going on as I write, which includes a new exciting urban garden along with business and residential plans.
And not to be short changed I have posted stories about that development, the history of the railways station and most recently the rediscovery of the Public Baths.
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| Inside Mayfield Railway Station, 2020 |
So, my old friend Andy Robertson, couldn’t resist a trip to the area where he encountered the interior of the Railway Station.
Not that he is the first to have recorded the place, but as ever his will be unique as he returns, Covid restrictions permitting, to photograph how Mayfield changes.
And that is, and will be one of Andy’s major contributions to the history of the twin cities. I doubt that there is anyone else who has consistently recorded chosen sites, from their slow decline, through to demolition and redevelopment, making his work part of how we will view the story of Manchester, Salford and Greater Manchester during the closing decades of the last century into the new one.
Location; Mayfield
Pictures; Mayfield Railway Station, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson, Mayfield, 1819, from Johnson’s map of Manchester, 1819, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
*Mayfield, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Mayfield
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