Construction of the M67 Motorway

Steve Hill sent us the following photos and note after the appeal yesterday about photos of the building of the M67.
They are fantastic !!
These are exactly the kind of photos that we are looking for..

"Here are a few more pictures of the M67 motorway under construction . Unfortunately they are not good quality as they are taken from Dennis Roylances film, the same film that the Ritz pictures came from but it does show the construction ".




Love this one. It shows the two tower blocks of John Grundy House and Chartist House and don't they look close together. It also shows the building of the DHSS building on New Beech St. Hyde Department Store (now Morrisons) can also be seen middle,far left.


The Astoria can just be seen middle,right of the picture.




Hyde Department Store can be seen top right on this photo.

Thank you so much, Steve.
I have been looking for photos of the construction of the M67 for years !!

Now and Then

 "Now and Then" shots of Hyde Department Store now home to the Morrisons Store.

The store was originally known as Hyde Department Store or FineFare Superstore and with a retail space of 76,000 square feet was the largest store in the FineFare organisation throughout the country.
It was opened by the popular 70's TV actor, Derek Nimmo in March 1976.
(Thanks Susan ) :)


Pictured circa 1976


The same view 2012

Mottram Road views.

 Below are two photos that our resident photographer, Dave, took. :)

The first one shows Mottram Road circa middle to late 1980's and show the "Hypermarket" that was originally Hyde Department store. I think it had become Fine Fare by this time. The Moulders pub can just be seen in the distance on the right hand side, peeping out from behind the tree.   Bradley & Sons Funeral Directors is also still in existence on the corner of Fernally Street behind the Billboards.

Also note how much smaller Fernally Street and Union Street were back then.



The second one shows a recent view.
Union Street took over virtually all the spare ground shown on the above shot whilst Fernally Street became 4 lanes rather than the two shown on the first photo..



It's good to see that it's still looking nice and green despite the increase in traffic.

Thanks Dave, as always :)