Entrances ..... gates .... and doors .... I have passed ...

The story which is pretty much nothing more than pictures.

All were taken at the beginning of the week in and around Shudehill.

Your starter for 10, should you choose to accept the challenge is to identify each, and offer up a comment, a personal memory or a picture.*

Mine for what it’s worth is wandering into the fish market with my old school chum John Coward.

It must have been early in 1970 and I was still new to Manchester having washed up from Eltham in the September of the previous year.

All of the city was still new and exciting, and on an aimless walk through the city we encountered the fish market and there I saw a full cod, from head to tail, not the boil in the bag cod covered in sauce cod, nor the battered and crispy coated fish with accompanying chips but the real thing.

It was big, and I was impressed.

Later, long after that adventure, and after I done with studying and working I spent many happy hours in the old Greater Manchester County Records Office on Marshall Street.

You can still explore these dusty but magic bits of our history in the Archives Library at Central Ref

So that is it. 

Other than to say one building is so good I included it twice.

No prizes if you take part, just the satisfaction of adding something to the story.

Location; Shudehill and round about

Pictures; Entrances, .....gates ... and doors .... I have passed, 2023, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*And if you want the answers but don’t know who to ask, the first is the entrance to the former Co-op Building on Balloon Street, the second is from inside the old Wholesale Fish Market looking towards Salmon Street, the third is looking at the fish market from Shudehill, and the last is the former Greater Manchester County Records Office and formerly Marsden Harcombe & Company Ltd, Marshall Street