Andrew Simpson

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Showing posts with label Ashton Old Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashton Old Road. Show all posts
Friday, 9 January 2026

The way we were ............. just 56 years ago

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Now it is easy to forget that well within the living memory of most of us the City was still full of tiny workshops which wouldn’t have bee...
Friday, 23 October 2015

Whitworth Baths on the Old Road ........... courtesy of Ron Stubley

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Now for the last couple of days I have been thinking and writing about the Whitworth Baths on Ashton Old Road . The stories have brough...
Thursday, 22 October 2015

Inside the Whitworth Baths on Ashton Old Road .......... what we might lose

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I am back with the Whitworth Baths on Ashton Old Road.* They date from 1890, served the community of Openshaw for almost eighty years a...
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Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Going swimming on Ashton Old Road in 1905 in the Whitworth Public Baths

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Outside the Baths in 1960 Whitworth Baths on Ashton Old Road is a place I have passed countless times and never even knew existed. It...
Friday, 13 March 2015

Down on the Old Road at the Seven Stars

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It would be a full seventeen years after these pictures of the Seven Stars Hotel were taken that we moved into to a flat just off the Old...
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