| Carol Steele's
Photographs - from the neighbourhood she grew-up in - |
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| Crowcroft Park, entrance from
the corner of East Road and Stockport Road. |
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| Crowcroft Park Infant School
shjowing what used to be the real infants section. |
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| 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. |
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| The path through Crowcroft Park
adjacent to Northmoor Road, which I used to walk every day to get to
school. |
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| The area of Crowcroft Park where
the tennis courts used to be 60 years ago. |
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| Children's Play Area in
Crowcroft Park. |
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| The corner of Crowcroft Park at
the East Road/Northmoor Road corner - which is exactly the same as it
was 60 years ago. |
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| The entrance to Crowcroft Park
from the East Road / Northmoor Road corner. |
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| The dental practice which I used
to visit as a child almost 60 years ago. |
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| A new house standing where an
old shop stood on this corner. |
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| The new North Road Methodist
Church at the junction of East Road and Northmoor Road. |
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| The old
North Road Methodist Church at the junction of East Road and Northmoor
Road. |
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| Looking down Northmoor Road from
the junction of East Road and Northmoor Road. |
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| Above & Below: The old
Co-op stores with the function rooms over the top on Northmoor Road
(previously North Road). |
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| Peel Grove looking towards Pink
Bank Lane from Northmoor Road. |
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| The old rectory of St. Cyprian's
Church on the corner of Northmoor Road and what used to be Norman Grove
(now Belgate Close). |
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| Where I used to live on
Kirkmanshulme Lane, near the junction with Northmoor Road, then it used
to be an old Victorian terrace. |
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| Above and Below: The old
Manchester Central Grammar School for Boys. |
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| A new college now stands on what
used to be the Council flats which stood between Pink Bank Lane and
Northmoor Road. |
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| 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) |
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| Looking down Stanley Grove
towards Stockport Road - the old railway bridge with the new shopping
centre beyond. |
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| The new rectory of what used to
be St. Cyprian's Church on the corner of Stanley Grove and Rushford
Street. |
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| The old bank on the corner of
Dickenson Road and Stockport Road. |