Shadows at the newsagents …….

Now I have been following the continuing changes to Etchells on Beech Road.

Work began earlier in the month when the tile cladding came off and revealed a bit of the story of the shop which dates to the start of the 20th century.

The removal of the tiles revealed clues to the original lay out of the shop including the front door and a window looking out onto Beech Road.*

Small history perhaps but fascinating none the less for a building which can lay claim to having always been a newsagent.

And one which in its earlier days was run by Lionel Nixon who was the grandson of the family who ran the beer shop which is now 70 Beech Road. 

They were Samuel and Sarah Ann Nixon, and they were in residence offering up beer and cheer from the 1840s, while Samuel’s father was landlord of that pub over the water once known as the Greyhound, but now Jackson’s Boat.

Ever since work started, I have been going down and photographing the progress, and this Sunday with the new rendering on and the sun shining the wall was a backdrop for these shadows.

And that pretty much is that.

Location; Beech Road

Pictures, Shadows at the newsagents ……. 2022, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*When archaeology came to Beech Road ……, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Beech%20Road