Taking back the streets ………………

It was the Saturday, before the May Bank Holiday and the sun came out.

So what better way to celebrate the return to near normal.

We had planned just a quick saunter on to Edge Street to take a few pictures for a story.

But the crowds were out, more than I remember for a normal May Saturday, and we decided to stay.

With no particular plans we ended up eating at La Collina on Tariff Street, which advertises itself as “Laid -back Tuscan-style coffee and drinks in the Northern Quarter”, which was just what it said it was.

And from there we wandered across the city to Edge Street, falling across Stevenson Square which was packed and looked the best it has done for a century and a bit.

Everywhere you went streets had been blocked off and tables and diners filled the void.

And along the way, there was a chap doing press up on the street.

All of which I think confirmed that simple observation that we are taking back the streets.

Location; the Norther Quarter

Pictures; Taking back the streets, 2021, from the collection of Andrew Simpson