Days I remember ….. shopping in Chorlton 46 years ago

I don’t do nostalgia.

But here are four pictures of a day on Wilbraham Road on a winter’s afternoon in 1979.

It was a time when Chorlton still offered that traditional range of shops which would have been familiar to people a century earlier.

Now, I know today there is an excellent fresh fish shop on Wilbraham Road which is always busy.

Back 46 years ago I never visited In Shore Fisheries, and I can’t remember when it closed, nor can I work out if it turned into that chain of fish shops under the banner of MacFisheries.

But I did call into the cooked chicken shop regularly and rather think it continued to do the biz of all things chicken into this century.

All of which is a lesson to anyone interested in history which is always record what you see because there will be a moment when it has gone.

So, no nostalgia, just a bit of our past.

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; on Wilbraham Road, 1979 from the collection of Andrew Simpson