The door …… Beech Road

So, what else do you do on Beech Road at 7 in the morning? ..............

.............. take a picture of a door.

In this case the one that is now Bar San Juan, but which has been the home of many cafes since Chorlton on the Green.

And before that a piano shop, hairdressers, and ironmonger.

Location; Beech Road

Picture No. 60 Beech Road, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

Shop doors I have known ................... Stamford Street Ashton-Under-Lyne

Now shop fronts and their entrances do get rather overlooked, which is a shame, because the old traditional ones which will date back a century or more are vanishing.

I fully accept that back then they were fairly uniform in their design but the move to big glass fronted entrances in the 1950s and 60s did for many of them.

Since then a lot more have vanished as town and city centers get re designed.

All of which makes a visit to Ashton quite rewarding.

Lots of them still exist and unlike their counterparts in south Manchester have not become smart cafes, or wine bars

Instead they are still offering up the sort of things that elsewhere you can only get online of a big supermarket.

Which just leaves me to thank the owners of Corletts Interiors on Stamford Street for letting me take a picture of their shop.

And I rather think I have a new short series in the offing.

Location; Stamford Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Tameside





Picture;  Corletts Interiors, Ashton-Under-Lyne, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson