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Negative No: 1963-1143.2 - Negatives Book Entry: 00-06-1963_Valuation_City Road-Stretford Road CPO Area_Views of City Road-Stretford Road-Rosamund Street CPO Area by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

12v Batteries, £4.19.6. 

 

You can click on these images and zoom in, they're very high resolution and there's heaps of stuff to look at. In fact, I recommend the entire Flickr account - there's thousands of photos of the grimmest parts of Manchester taken at the grimmest possible time. 

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Negative No: 1963-1120 - Negatives Book Entry: 00-06-1963_Valuation_City Road-Stretford Road CPO Area_Views of City Road-Stretford Road-Rosamund Street CPO Area by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

Eagle Motors here specialise in four makes, including Leyland and Ford. They also have discount petrol and a pyramid of oil. I didn't even try and track this one down on Google Maps. It was barely there when the photograph was taken. 

 

I was in Stretford last year on the roof of the tower so had a quick google to see if Rosamund Street was close by.  I was initially confused why Street view wasn't working but soon clicked when I looked at the adjacent street name.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Rosamund+Street,+Stretford,+Manchester+M17+1AU/@53.4706754,-2.3029236,167m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487bae6f4d82428d:0x3982925f61776d00!8m2!3d53.4706962!4d-2.3026534?dcr=0

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Haha, I did the same thing. Then I tried the second Rosamund street, which is the new set.  I quite like how Google mapped them like real streets!

 

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Negative No: 1964-0945 - Negatives Book Entry: 21-04-1964_TP&B_Properties In 17/7 Area (Mancunian Way) by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

Fordspeed distributors, racing specialists. 

 

Spent a while looking for Gloucester Grove on the pre-Mancunian Way map but couldn't find it. They demolished so much for that terrible road. Someone had fun breaking those big windows. 

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Negative No: 1964-1264 - Negatives Book Entry: 24-06-1964_TP&B_School of Music CPO Area by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

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Negative No: 1965-2211 - Negatives Book Entry: 15-06-1965_Education_College of Music CPO_Property for CPO by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

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Negative No: 1964-1266 - Negatives Book Entry: 24-06-1964_TP&B_School of Music CPO Area by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

Searching for the company name yielded one dead link suggesting they were on Oxford Road. There's also a sign for Rex Bodybuilders, which I also searched and regretted doing so. But the photo is titled "school of music compulsory purchase order 1963" and there's a school of music on Oxford Road which they started building in 1968, so I'm going to hazard a guess at this being the location:

 

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Negative No: 1965-1311 - Negatives Book Entry: 07-04-1965_Housing_York Street CPO_Properties for Valuation by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

"The Roy Keeling Guarantee - if the building collapses on your car, your next service is FREE!"

 

 

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Negative No: 1965-1309 - Negatives Book Entry: 07-04-1965_Housing_York Street CPO_Properties for Valuation by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

56 Standard Vanguard (with heater!!) £125

59 Ford Popular £95

58 Ford Consul (this also has a heater) £225

60 Anglia £285

60 Anglia (lower spec grille) £245

58 Morris J type (one owner) £85

 

Since these photos were taken to value the properties for a compulsory purchase, there's no point in seeing if the buildings are still there. A bit of York Street survives, but not Roy's. Maybe it was lost to new development, maybe the noise of the camera shutter caused it to fall down. We'll never know. 

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Took me a while to track down Tamworth Street. It's another huge chunk of Hulme which was wholesale deleted for completely new development, and as such even the street doesn't exist. 

 

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Negative No: 1965-0629 - Negatives Book Entry: 16-02-1965_E&V Housing_Tamworth Street CPO_Property for Valuation by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

Some nice Standard Triumph branding in here!

 

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Negative No: 1965-0626 - Negatives Book Entry: 16-02-1965_E&V Housing_Tamworth Street CPO_Property for Valuation by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

There's more Triumph action down the street. Interesting stance on that van.

 

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Negative No: 1964-0193 - Negatives Book Entry: 14-01-1964_TP&B_Tamworth Street_CPO Property by Manchester Archives+, on Flickr

 

No end of cars for sale on Tamworth Street - even the Shell station is trying to flog you a rather tired looking Minx for £40. If you were jealous of the DS in the previous picture, why not buy this similar, if rather battered, one?

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These are exclusive to Autoshite, send by a gent on Facebook for me to distribute, all taken in Palmers Green, Finchley, Whetstone & Barnet area`s of north London in the 70`s & 80`s, none of them are petrol stations any more, only 2 of the buildings still exist.

They are mobile phone pictures of projected slides & photographs as he has no scanner, he has said I can scan the slides at some point for better quality.

The Triumph was his & was exported to Monaco!

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You can click on these images and zoom in, they're very high resolution and there's heaps of stuff to look at. In fact, I recommend the entire Flickr account - there's thousands of photos of the grimmest parts of Manchester taken at the grimmest possible time. 

 

Grim is certainly the word. Just found one with a photo of a knife entitled "Accident on killing floor". That archive is a new one to me, glad I've now got my fibre connection......

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12v Batteries, £4.19.6.

About 100 Quid in today's dibbs.

 

 

56 Standard Vanguard (with heater!!) £125

59 Ford Popular £95

58 Ford Consul (this also has a heater) £225

60 Anglia £285

60 Anglia (lower spec grille) £245

58 Morris J type (one owner) £85

In today's dosh:

 

56 Standard Vanguard (with heater!!) £2,325

59 Ford Popular £1,767

58 Ford Consul (this also has a heater) £4,185

60 Anglia £5,301

60 Anglia (lower spec grille) £4,557

58 Morris J type (one owner) £1,581

 

Obviously Fords enjoyed a scene tax even back then!

 

 

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While it might not have the Autoshite glamour of Blackpool's old Belle Vue Garage, who wouldn't enjoy stumbling across this beauty in SE Manchester?

 

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Goodness only knows if those pump globes survived being used for decoration, but the building itself has dodged demolition. Unfortunately it looks like this now. 

 

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You know, I'm not deliberately looking for ruined old garages. If I keep looking, surely I'll find one which has been improved upon? Right?

 

Home also of Pheonnix Motors (sic). 

That really annoys me.

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The round Mobil canopy is still there :)  And the building bottom left is still there too.

 

Somewhere I have a photo of my Oxford outside the Hadley Green garage after it had closed but before it got knocked down for some dull residential redevelopment.

Sorry, yes, 2 buildings still exist, not 1! (the ex-Mobil in Whetstone & the ex-Cyma at Barnet/Hadley Green).

 

Would be great if you could dig that picture out Seth, I couldn't work out where the Talbot garage was, & he couldn't quite remember either (he seemed to think it was on the other end of Hadley Green at the end of Dury Rd?).

 

I just realised who you are Seth!

 

 

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Rumbled!  I'm guessing that spot photo was on an Enfield Pageant weekend as I don't go up that way very often.

 

Yes, the Hadley Green Garage was on what is now Boundary Close.

It was, back in 2011!

 

I`d love to see more pics of the Talbot dealer, I had no idea there were commercial premises round there, let alone car related ones.

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