Showing posts with label Chorlton green. Chorlton lost scenes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chorlton green. Chorlton lost scenes. Show all posts

Monday, 10 March 2025

The Rec in 1933


Long before it was Beech Road Park it was the “Rec” and depending on which name you use marks you out as a newcomer or a local.

 Now we have always called it the Rec and so do all my children which I guess says something about us.

Of all the pictures of the Rec in the collection this is my favourite and I have to own up it’s because it features our house.

The date on the postcard is 1933 and the path running along the inside parallel to Beech Road has long gone.
Otherwise apart from the size of the trees it is a scene not so different from today.

Picture; from the Lloyd collection

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Be careful what you wish for, .... snow on the green circa 1979


Now I know the old saying, be careful what you wish for, but I couldn’t resist this picture of the green in the snow sometime at the end of the 1970s.

Location; Chorlton


Picture; from the collection of Tony Walker, 1970s