Wednesday 1 June 2022

Little Hulton: Milk Round

 

Little Hulton Industrial Co-operative Society, Ltd.


Photographs taken 1961 on Mount Skip Estate, Little Hulton. 


Situated at the corner of Manchester Road and Cleggs Lane
Architect:  J. T. Proffitt, 4, Memorial Road, Walkden, Manchester.
 Terra Cotta : The Hathern Station Brick and Terra Cotta Co., Ltd., Loughhorough, Leicester.[1]





Source: Little Hulton, Urban District Council, 1925.

As it was.
Since then its fine Edwardian façade has been diminished by tawdry signage and tasteless modernization.

[1] Academy Architecture and Architectural Review, vol. 43 (1913).










Tuesday 31 May 2022

Street Party Salford 1936

Street party 1936
to commemorate the coronation of George VI
Hanover Street (off Cross Lane) Salford
Mrs. Wilshire left, Ethel Lomas Wood right


 

Salford Street Party 1953


June 1953
Street party at 8 Branson Street (Ordsall) Salford
to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Standing: Ethel Lomas Wood. Her mother, Frances Ronan Lomas,
is seated to her right.