Endings ………

Just because the Precinct has closed and awaits its demolition doesn’t mean it can’t still make statement.

Today to be fair it cuts a sad picture ......... a tad more ghost than retail buzz, but there are plenty who remember it in its heyday.

And already pictures are circulating across social media which were taken in the decade after it opened.

Most are “snaps” but they capture the place and each photograph will have a wealth of stories sitting behind them.

Leaving me to hope that over the next month people will come forward with their own tales of the place, which will include working there, or shopping there.

My memories include the wall paper and paint shop, Safeways, Iceland and Tony Adam's whose fruit and veg shop supplied us with fine Christmas trees for nearly forty years.

These will blend with those stories which arose from the project earlier this year which asked people what they remembered about the Precinct.

It is after all a bit of our history that occupied the space for half a century.

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; the Precinct, 2024, from the collection of Andrew Simpson