Now, I know it is stating the obvious, and pretty soon the idea behind the series will be a thing of the past.
But until then here, collected on a walk through Chorlton are pictures of the closed shops, starting with that parade which was once a row of posh houses and goes under the name of Highfield.
Although I doubt few now refer to it as Highfield, and you would have to look quite hard to find the stone plaque with the name, which long ago was painted over.
It was years before I realized that the shop fronts had been added sometime after the houses and been built or that back in 1893 all of them were listed as Highfield.
But just two years later only number 12 bore the name, which was occupied by a Mr. Adolph Schobelt.
In that year he paid an annual rent of £36 to Mr. William Mee who owned the row, and commanded between £35 to £38 rent per year for the houses.
The block were still just residential properties in 1903, but sometime between then and 1909 the retail transformation occurred.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; Highfield, Wilbraham Road, 2021, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
I always refer to it as Highfield.
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