Dropping down Stoney Brew …….

I am back with Stoney Brew a place I have written about and regularly visit.*

It’s that dramatic Manchester road with the steep incline.

Catch it from the top going down in a car and it can be scary, and equally so trying to reach the top in an under powered vehicle with a heavy load.

Officially it is Jutland Street and connects Ducie Street with Store Street, and it is where the road  goes over the Ashton Canal.  

Historically it was Junction Street and has claimed many unwary drivers over the centuries.

I first came across it in the summer of 1975 in the company of Norman Parry who had grown up here in the shadow of what is now Piccadilly Railway Station.

And it was Norman who told me of the tragic accident sometime in the late 1920s when a carter tried his luck with a heavily loaded horse drawn wagon descending to Store Street.

He lost control and the wagon its load and the horse crashed into the wall of the timber yard at the bottom.

Outside those who lived or grew up around the road which carried the nickname Stoney Brew, there will be few who know of its existence, unless of course you choose to let the sat nav take you that way.

Location; Store Street/Ducie Street

Pictures; Stoney Brew, 2025, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

* Stoney Brew, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Stoney%20Brew