This is a journey through time and space by bicycle, around the rugged, ragged streets of East Manchester.
Undertaken on Sunday September 2nd 2018.
This is type travel – the search for words and their meanings in an ever changing world.
Hyde Road
The Star Inn – former Wilsons pub
Devonshire Street North
Former Ardwick Cemetery
Great Universal Stores former mail order giant
Palmerston Street
The River Inn abandoned pub
Every Street
All Souls Church – listed yet unloved
Pollard Street East
The Bank Of England abandoned pub
Ancoats Works former engineering company
Cambrian Street
The Lunchbox Café Holt Town
Upper Helena Street
The last remnants of industrial activity
Bradford Road
The little that remains of Raffles Mill
Old Mill Street
Ancoats Dispensary loved listed and still awaiting resuscitation
New life New Islington
Redhill Street
Former industrial powerhouse currently contemporary living space
Henry Street
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth passed by in 1942
Jersey Street
Former School the stone plaque applied to a newer building
Gun Street
The last of the few Blossom Motors
Addington Street
Former fruit merchants – refurbished and home to the SLG creative agency
Marshall Street and Goulden Street area
The last remnants of the rag trade
Former bed spring manufacturer – latterly became the County Archive.
Sudell Street
All that’s left of Alexandra Place
Entrance to the former Goods Yard
Back St Georges Road
Sharp Street
Simpson Street
Where once the CWS loomed large
Charter Street
Aspin Lane
Corporation Street
Modern Mooch 
This is so eloquent – great photographs but what it says about civic and social decay is tragic. The quality of some of the architectural details, especially the plaques and cartouches in moulded brick or stone, contrasted with the broken American carwash sign, is very telling. It makes me feel very sad – sorry!
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