And time called on two more iconic and favourite buildings

Well it was only a matter of time before the Drum and that grand looking building on Pollard Street were demolished.

Both featured on the blog during the year and yesterday Neil Simpson announced that the Drum was no more.

And in much the same away Angie a few weeks ago had passed that building hard by Great Ancoats Street and photographed the scaffolding surrounding it.

Planning permission had been granted for its demolition some time ago so I think we were all surprised when it clung on for so long.

All that is left is to speculate on what might take their place.

I think the site of the Drum will become a fast food out let while on Pollard Street I guess it will be more residential property.

And with that in mind I shall go looking in the planning applications.

*The Drum Stretford, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/The%20Drum%20Stretford

**Pollard Street, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Pollard%20Street

Painting; The Drum,© 2014 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures
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Picture; of the building on Pollard Street, courtesy of AngieThomas

Perhaps the last few days of the building on Pollard Street

Now I hope this won’t quite be in the end of that building on Pollard Street.

It has excited a lot of interest and I rather hoped much against experience that it might just survive, even given its derelict state and the  granting of a demolition order.

Just last week I published a series of pictures by Andy Robertson which followed an earlier story* and as you do I was drawn to comment on how it was still standing, but on the day the story was posted news came in from people passing that the fencing had gone up .

So I guess the next time I visit the place it will just be a hole in the ground with the promise of something new which if I am honest may not be as exciting.

Not that I shall close on a low note instead here is what it looked like just 47 years ago and for those who like what they see I suggest you get down to Pollard Street before it’s gone.




Pictures; the building today from the collection of  Andy Robertson, 2014 and back in 1967 beside the Auld Lang Syne Inn by H.L. Price, m10453, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass

*Pollard Street, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Pollard%20Street

"See better days and do better things" ....... that old building on Pollard Street still defying the developers

Now I fully expected that this old building would have been swept away by now, but it continues to cling on despite the absence of any other contemporary buildings.

It stands on Pollard Street just off Great Ancoats Street between what is left of Boond Street and Mundy Street.

I was first alerted to it by Angie who told me that
“it dates from 1889 and was the private dining rooms for Hetherington’s Vulcan Works on Pollard Street".*

I wrote about it back in July and said at the time I thought it would soon vanish from the scene.

And yet as Andy Robertson’s pictures show it is still there looking all the more forlorn with its boarded up windows and the gaping holes in its roof.

Added to this the surrounding area is being filled by new flats which adds to the sense that this once proud and busy building has had its day.

But it hasn’t gone yet and maybe it won’t.  With a bit of tender care, and a fair amount of money I reckon it could be back in business again, after all there must be plenty of people passing it on the tram who might just think they could do something with it.

I do hope so.  Consent was granted back in 2013 to demolish it but it has yet to fall to the bulldozer.

But on the day the story was posted news came in from people passing that the fencing had gone up and I guess the next time I visit the place it will just be a hole in the ground with the promise of something new which if I am honest may not be as exciting.

Pictures; the old Hetherington’s Vulcan Works August 2014, from the collection of Andy Robertson

*Another little bit of our history soon to disappear? ............. Out on Pollard Street, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/another-little-bit-of-our-history-soon.html

Another little bit of our history soon to disappear? ............. Out on Pollard Street

Now this building may  now have vanished.  

It stands on Pollard Street just off Great Ancoats Street between what is left of Boond Street and Mundy Street.

I was first alerted to it by Angie who told me that
“it dates from 1889 and was the private dining rooms for Hetherington’s Vulcan Works on Pollard Street.

They made the machinery that went into the cotton mills. 

In 1930 it became W H Barnes & Son a shirt manufacturer it went on to be a printing shop signs etc before ending up as a sewing shop eventually being abandoned sometime in the late 90's.”

And it is one of those places I must have passed loads of times giving it only a second’s thought.

Today it stands out surrounded as it is by open land  and new blocks of flats away in the distance.

An application to demolish was made back in May 2013 and was granted.*

Pictures; the building today from the collection of Angie Thomas and back in 1967 beside the Auld Lang Syne Inn by H.L. Price, m10453, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass

*Manchester City Council Planning Application Documents, 31 Pollard Street, 101896/DEM/2013/N2 http://pa.manchester.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=MJHRFOBC06N00