The history lesson on the street …………

Now, I like the way that you can come across a bit of history on a Manchester Street.

Which in this case is not a building where you go looking for clues to its past or a whole street which reveals its story in lots of different ways, but a simple slab of writing offering a quirky slant on a bit of the past.

Here on Turner Street Andy encountered just such a bit of history, and when the  lock down is truly, really over, I think he will have a drink in the Abel Heywood to ponder over what he has read.

And then consult his many books to follow up on the story.

Or he may just stay in he pub and have another drink.

We shall see.

Either way I await his next email.

On the other hand he might set himself another project which involves the frequent return to the said street, avoiding the pub and concentrating on the developments in the area, including the one which see a set of apartments rise on the empty piece of land on Red Lion Street.

And for those unsure where this is, it is the road that runs off Turner Street down past the Abel Heywood to terminate at Church Street.

It is a development I have already written about and is the plot is there on his last picture.*

Location; the Northern Quarter

Pictures; a bit of history, a pub and what Ms Jessie Heywood did

*Gaze upon Red Lion Street all you who are curious ….. and lament its passing, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/gaze-upon-red-lion-street-all-you-who.html