Now the remorseless onward march of the developers seem to have Radium Street in their sights.
For those who don’t know it runs back from Oldham Road down to the Rochdale Canal, cutting across a series of historic streets dating back to when the area was being developed for the first time.
So here are Silk Street, George Leigh Street and Jersey Street, along with others which have long since been renamed.
Which of course brings me back to Radium, which was originally German Street and its neighbour Prussia Street both of which underwent a name change, and now makes the pattern of streets a little out of kilter given than all the surrounding ones also carry place names, like Poland and Bengal Street.
Not that I suspect the new inhabitants of the renovated old industrial buildings and the modern counterparts which are springing up across the area will be over bothered.
Indeed by the time lockdown is over even more of those open spaces which were once factories, warehouses and terraced properties will have gone.
On a recent visit I noticed the Cheshire Cheese on the corner of Radium Street which closed ages ago has become just a space.
All of which means that the properties Andy recorded are all the more remarkable because they are still there running north from Radium Street along Oldham Road.
Location; New Cross
Pictures; Oldham Road, 2021, from the collection of Andy Robertson
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