Hardy Lane Scrapbook: Quiet Setting

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Quiet Setting

The photograph is dated August 1975 and shews a tree lined Hardy Lane being the wide cul-de-sac that it is. You have to thank Mr. A. Dawson who took his camera around Manchester in the 1970's taking snaps of ordinary buildings and streets. Even when you do this today you catch some strange looks off passers-by, and maybe he got some odd looks too.

At present we can't go and recreate this scene because of the roadworks blocking Hardy Lane, see the previous post.

Photo : m17868 Courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council. Link

2 comments:

pluralzed said...: Almost the same viewpoint, although sadly not before the roadworks started - one of my photos on Geograph from last December: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2850213; 16 March, 2012 17:49
lorenzo23 said...: Like your photos. I'm going to take the liberty under the Creative Commons to use them. It's not that we make any money from publishing them. It is good that people are using their digital cameras to record how the everyday really looks before it is mis-remembered.; 22 March, 2012 22:47

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The Story

An unremarkable building that is now 83 years old. But it has one of the last meeting rooms, above a Co-op shop still with co-op activity. There used to be thousands of such rooms and halls in Britain. This is maybe the very last room.

It is very likely the oldest shop in Chorlton with continous trading, that is grocery. It's been run as a co-operative society branch since 1929.

Hoping to publish something in either print or video of the history. From a quiet country lane, the building of a housing estate, the opening of the shops and the end of farming. A fascinating story.

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