Surprising and not so surprising scenes travelling through Stretford

If you take your inspiration from that 1946 song by Bobby Troup and plan to motor west, ….. travelling the highway that's the best, you can get your kicks on Kingsway and down Urmston Lane.*

Face at the window, Eastern & Western Boutique,2025

Well I might be stretching the credulity of even the best friends of Stretford, but on a warm sunny Saturday  walking through the township there was plenty to taken in .

Car Park, 2025

On the way I bumped into my old Facebook chum Bill Sumner and his wife who let me into the secret of that old farm on Urmston Lane, clocked the sad and lonely looking Robin Hood and took pleasure in the odd Stretford scenes, from the face in a shop window and a bit of carpark, while remembering that tip to “never point your camera into the sun”.

So istorically the farm will offer up some interesting stories and there will be lots more to find out about the  the Robin Hood.

And no doubt more than a few helpful hints about how to take pictures into the sun.

Looking in from Urmston Lane, 2025

We shall see.

“Never point your camera into the sun” 2025

Location; Stretford

Pictures; Face at the window, Eastern & Western Boutique,  car park,  “never point your camera into the sun”, Kingsway, passing farm buildings Urmston Lane, 2025, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*Route 66, Bobby Troup, 1946, version by Chuck Berry, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqhQSfFtOVE