Pictures From Elaine (1)

This post has been made possible because Elaine contacted me of late and later sent these pictures is.
Three excellent pictures to look over this as well..  and hopefully a bit of information will be forthcoming about each one. I've also done 3 close ups which might be of interest.

Serious damage on John Street 

UPDATE FROM PAUL TAYLOR
 

A bit of info for you. The butchers shop belonged to William Booth, and was at 62 George St, he had taken over from his father George Booth in the 1920's. The butchers dates back to around 1860, when George Booth (not sure if same George or father) established the shop. The shop on the right was Joseph Brunt, newsagents. The picture probably dates to around 1930.

UPDATE FROM PAUL TAYLOR

Just looking through The History of Hyde book page 172, it mentions the great storms of 1927. The main one was October 20th, which has been posted about a few times, but there was another one later on Oct 28th. Quote "On Friday Oct 28th, a destructive gale swept through the town. Commencing at five o'clock in the afternoon it soon reached a velocity of over 70 mph, and during the night it littered every street in the town with debris. Chimney pots and slates were hurled to the ground etc etc etc. Another heavy thunderstorm hit the town on Wed June 18th, 1930, causing deep flooding in all parts of the town. Either of these could be the cause of the damage to the house.

POSSIBLY HOPWOOD'S OUTING

LEFT

MIDDLE

RIGHT

TWO MEN AT A TABLE

Could they be the winners of a Botanical Competition? 

Or perhaps Art Work

These lads have workmens  hands

Would be great to get some names and information on the above pictures,  Elaine has other pictures to share and if they are as good as these I look forward to seeing and sharing them on here.

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Not Quite Disappeared

Dave as been out and about with his camera again for us and took these pictures which show  the remnants of the streets which were largely obliterated by the building of the motorway . 

The first 5 are of John Street, although the first one was once part of Grafton Street, before the demolition of that area took place.. John Street is the only one of those streets on the other side of the motorway which still has houses on it, and it gives just a flavour of what the area must have been like previously. 

The 2 photos below are of Pitt Street. Whilst there are parts of the other streets where the tarmac has worn away to show the cobbles (or should I say setts) underneath, 

I can't remember ever seeing this street with the sets covered it is also interesting that from one end of Pitt Street you can see the Town Hall, and from the other end you can see Flowery Field Church.

I think we could say this is Dave's first posting for use... I have had to do so little as Dave covered everything in both words and pictures.