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 !!

M67 Construction Picture

Here are a couple of photos sent to us by David Stafford.

Over to David ...

A couple of pictures taken awhile ago, the first one is constructing the M67 motorway.

The second is of the building of the generator house at Godley Waterworks in the late 1950, showing ICI double chimney.

 Great Photos, David. Thanks for sharing with us :)

I'd love to see more photos of the construction of the M67. There must be so many out there !

Carrfield Mill

 This week we received the following from Lee and Judy Brown....

"Enclosed are a couple of photographs I took of Carrfield Mill, when they were still working a night shift. One from Park Road and one from Newton Street. I took them when I went out to photograph the opening of the M67 circa 1978."





Carrfield Mill was founded by the Ashton Brothers, Samuel, Thomas, James and John, of Greencroft and Newton Moor Mills. Erected 1817, Carrfield Mill was intended as a combined spinning and weaving mill from the start and 200 powerlooms weavers were being employed there in 1819.
Carrfield Mill lies in a hollow and not surprisingly it was locally known as "The Hollow Factory".
The partnership known as Samuel Ashton & Brothers was dissolved in 1821 when Samuel left and the remaining three brothers traded as T.J. & J. Ashton. . In September 1823 this partnership too was dissolved, John and James forming another partnership with Robert Ashton, a younger brother, at Newton Moor Mill  and Greencroft Mill. This left Thomas Ashton in sole control of the Carrfield Mill site.

Many thanks for the photos, Lee and Judy & to Ian Haynes for the information about Carrfield Mill from his book, Hyde Cotton Mills . For anyone interested there are sometimes copies of Ians book for sale  at Harrisons Newsagents in Hyde.  :)