Walking the canal and following the new developments ………

Now Andy Robertson has been recording the transformation of the twin cities and beyond over the last three decades.

And on Saturday he was out in Castlefield and Pomona which are places he often visits watching as yet more new buildings rise from old industrial sites.

He chose to let the pictures say it all, only commenting that in his first picture “notice the new build going up centre of the photograph taking one of the remaining green spaces on Castlefield Basin”.

Andy is a very modest chap, but in the future his images will stand as an important record of the rebuilding of much of Greater Manchester, particularly as he will go back and back, chronicling the final days of a once proud building, and continuing as it is demolished, the site cleared and the ground broken, all the way through to the completed new development.

And within a decade these will be pretty much all there is to show for what once occupied these bright densely packed examples of urban living.

Allowing those who reside in the swish new apartments to get a sense of the grimy, productive warehouses, factories and long rows of terraced houses which defined the area.  

Here are just a few of the pictures he took that Saturday.

Location; Castlefield and Pomona

Pictures; Out in Castlefield and Pomona, on an April day, 2022, from the collection of Andy Robertson