Slow day in Chorlton ..........

It was a quiet time on Beech Road.

The kids were at school, the commuters were well and truly on their way, leaving just the odd delivery van a couple shopping for a late breakfast and me.

The Lead had yet to open, Etchells, and the Chemist had a few visitors,  leaving me to take a some pictures.

And to reflect on the history of the place.

The Lead as everyone knows was a former police station, the Etchell’s family maintain the continuity of a newsagents which stretches back to the beginning of the last century, and the Chinese takeaway resides in a premise which has an unbroken history of selling fish and chips from when Queen Victoria was on the throne.

Which only leaves me to report that until the 1870s this road was called Chorlton Row and is a pretty old thoroughfare connecting Barlow Moor Lane with the village green.

Stand in the middle of the road  in the early morning before most of the cars have arrived and you can see its twisty turny path which once would have accommodated  the natural obstacles of trees, Blomley's fish pond and field boundaries.

Location; Beech Road

Pictures; Beech Road, 2024, from the collection of Andrew Simpson