Carol Steel's Photographs
- from the neighbourhood she grew-up in -


Crowcroft Park, entrance from the corner of East Road and Stockport Road.


Crowcroft Park Infant School shjowing what used to be the real infants section.


An open area of Crowcroft Park looking towards the bowling green.  On the left was where the old summer shelter and band stand were situated.


The path through Crowcroft Park adjacent to Northmoor Road, which I used to walk every day to get to school.


The area of Crowcroft Park where the tennis courts used to be 60 years ago.


Children's Play Area in Crowcroft Park.


The corner of Crowcroft Park at the East Road/Northmoor Road corner - which is exactly the same as it was 60 years ago.


The entrance to Crowcroft Park from the East Road / Northmoor Road corner.


The dental practice which I used to visit as a child almost 60 years ago.


A new house standing where an old shop stood on this corner.


The new North Road Methodist Church at the junction of East Road and Northmoor Road.


The old North Road Methodist Church at the junction of East Road and Northmoor Road.


Looking down Northmoor Road from the junction of East Road and Northmoor Road.


Above & Below:  The old Co-op stores with the function rooms over the top on Northmoor Road (previously North Road).




Peel Grove looking towards Pink Bank Lane from Northmoor Road.


The old rectory of St. Cyprian's Church on the corner of Northmoor Road and what used to be Norman Grove (now Belgate Close).


Where I used to live on Kirkmanshulme Lane, near the junction with Northmoor Road, then it used to be an old Victorian terrace.


Above and Below:  The old Manchester Central Grammar School for Boys.






A new college now stands on what used to be the Council flats which stood between Pink Bank Lane and Northmoor Road.


Above & Below:  A new church on what used to be the site of St. Cyprian's Church on Rushford Street (Stanley Grove School in the background)




Looking down Stanley Grove towards Stockport Road - the old railway bridge with the new shopping centre beyond.


The new rectory of what used to be St. Cyprian's Church on the corner of Stanley Grove and Rushford Street.


The old bank on the corner of Dickenson Road and Stockport Road.