When the past stubbornly hangs on …..

There will come a time and I am guessing it will not be too long when all those old Chorlton street names will have passed out of living memory.

A little bit of the past, Regents Road, 2024

And that would be a shame.

At present Highfield Road, Regent Road, Church Road, and heaps more cling on remembered by those who knew them.

But that won’t be forever, and then the only record will appear in old directories, some maps, and the former road signs.

And so it is with Regent Road, now Reeves Road, although I doubt this one will last for much longer.

The renaming of many of Chorlton’s roads seems to have occurred in the late 1960s into the 70s and I suppose was about eliminating duplication.

That said it is not new.  Cross Road was variously Cross Street and Cross Lane, while Beech Road was once Chorlton Row, and the start of Whitelow Road was originally Lloyd Street.

Oak Bank, 1959

So never pass an old road sign without recording it for posterity or anyone else.

Location; Reeves Road, 

Picture; When the past stubbornly hangs on, 2024 from the collection of Andrew Simpson, and Oak Bank, 1959, now Silverwood Avenue, A.H.Downes m17489, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass