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Plymouth Grove
Taken at the junction with Plymouth Grove West and Hathersage Road.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 21 Jan 2009
0.14 miles
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A Manchester bus in Stockport Road
Taken in October 1969, this photo shows a 1964 Daimler Fleetline with Metro- Cammell 76-seater bodywork operated by Manchester City Transport in Stockport Road. It is working route 94 from Southern Cemetery to Levenshulme (Lloyd Road) via Old Trafford and City Centre. An MCT bus stop can be seen to the right of the vehicle. This area has changed considerably in the intervening decades.
Image: © David Hillas
Taken: 12 Oct 1969
0.15 miles
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Manchester from the air
Looking over the hospitals at Upper Brook Street towards Manchester Piccadilly railway station and the city centre from a Prague bound flight from Manchester.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 6 Jul 2020
0.16 miles
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Tree and plaque, Swinton Grove Park
The plaque reads:
In fond memory of our neighbour
ALAN BICKFORD
1944-2013
Founder and secretary of the Friends of Swinton Grove Park 2002-2013
It also has the quote "The Rock of the Park". The colourful wall behind is part of St Chrysostom's C of E Primary School.
Image: © Bradley Michael
Taken: 26 Nov 2015
0.16 miles
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Shops on Stockport Road
Automoney, Nisa Local, Subway, Cash Generator, Greggs and the Salvation Army. The empty shop next to Cash Generator used to be Grove Village Pharmacy.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 29 Jan 2018
0.17 miles
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84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester
"Of note as one of the largest and most elaborate early C19 houses in inner Manchester", wrote Pevsner. Stuccoed with pilasters and porch. Built c1838-40, possibly to the designs of Richard Lane who employed the same unusual style of capital elsewhere (
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A blue plaque records the residency of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell from 1850 to 1865. The Manchester Historic Buildings Trust has been restoring the building with a view to opening it to the public in 2014, perhaps in the hope that it will become this side of the Pennines's equivalent of the Bronte's house.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.17 miles
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Elizabeth Gaskell House
The former home of Elizabeth Gaskell has been renovated and is now open to the public
Image: © Norman Caesar
Taken: 15 Feb 2015
0.17 miles
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Detail of 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester
This unusual style of capital is derived from the Tower of the Winds in Athens.
Full view here:
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Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.17 miles
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Elizabeth Gaskell's House, Plymouth Grove, Manchester
The novelist Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) lived here with her husband (William Gaskell, minister at Manchester's Cross Street Unitarian Chapel) and children, from 1850 until her sudden death. The house is now a museum expanding on her work and on the Gaskells' lives there as a Victorian middle-class family: https://elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 15 Jun 2022
0.17 miles
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Elizabeth Gaskell House
The former home of Elizabeth Gaskell has been renovated and is now open to the public.
Image: © Norman Caesar
Taken: 15 Feb 2015
0.17 miles