Crookes, Crookes

Image: © Dave Hitchborne Taken: 26 Aug 2008

This view has changed very little in the last 60–plus–years. It’s a bit more colourful and there’s a bit more street furniture, the pub chimneys have gone and so have the tram tracks. Many of the shops have been re–opened as something else, although as far back as 1925 there was a chip shop here, but yes, it still looks pretty much the same. I stood on this very spot in the snow about 40–years–ago, to take a photograph of Crookes at night and within seconds of setting the tripod up, was stopped by a passing policeman who asked what I was doing. I think he thought I was a little ‘off my head’ and quickly went on his way. To the right is Bolehill Lane, to the left is Springvale Road.

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