Bus Station and Precinct – Hanley

Once upon a time almost everywhere there was a bus station and a shopping precinct.

Built in the Sixties from concrete and optimism.

1977

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Once upon a time almost everywhere there wasn’t a bus station and a shopping precinct.

Partially demolished, partially rebuilt, replaced by a new kind of optimism.

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Peopled with a new kind of people.

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Where will the old type of people go?

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Over a number of years I visited the site and recorded its sad demise, heartlessly tinned-up, unloved, windswept and almost devoid of hope.

No more tea and toast in Tony’s Café.

No more nothing.

No more.

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5 thoughts on “Bus Station and Precinct – Hanley

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  2. Tony’s cafe where he did breakfasts, fish and chips and other things in there i loved going in as well as the other café what was in the bus station, good times they were

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  3. Remember back in 1977… knee high to a grasshopper… waiting for a bus to Nana’s with me Mun.(Dividy Road).
    Saw an awesome tall punk rocker… tall too was the ginger dyed mohawk. Wish I had a camera to capture & share image. A memory that I will always remember… oh yes and that smell of the always popular café.

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