A day in Chorlton …… sometime between 1979 and 83

There is nothing very remarkable about these three images of Chorlton on a winter’s day.

I can’t even be sure just exactly which year I took them added to which the scenes they show are not so different from today.

Bus experts will offer up details of the vehicles, from the make, and the dates they joined the fleet, while someone will chime in with a piece on SELNEC, the company which preceded Greater Manchester Transport.

I can’t ever remember using the 262 but the 82 was the one we occasionally used to go up to Oldham which terminated at Werneth to visit Lois.

It was a long journey but had the advantage of being almost door to door.

All of that said there will be little things in each of the three which will jog memories and may also be a revelation to those who didn’t know Chorlton back then.

Leaving me just to say I will resist all those usual observations, that there “were fewer cars back then” “less litter”, “better shops” or even “there were shops back then”.

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; Barlow Moor Road and Wilbraham Road, 1979-83 from the collection of Andrew Simpson