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Rawsthorne Avenue, Gorton
Houses at Rawsthorne Avenue (M18 7GB), in the Gorton area of Manchester, close to the city's boundary with Reddish in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport.
Image: © Steven Haslington
Taken: 18 Apr 2011
0.11 miles
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Flemish Crescent, developing estate
Image: © Alex McGregor
Taken: 26 Oct 2011
0.17 miles
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Reddish Loco Depot
Rows of class 76 1500v DC electric locomotives stand beside the depot buildings. Built for the Woodhead route in the early 1950's, the decision in the late 1950's to go for 25Kv AC traction on future electrifications made them obsolescent overnight. The Woodhead route closed in 1981 and the class were withdrawn en-masse in July of that year.
Image: © Martin Addison
Taken: Unknown
0.18 miles
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Reddish Loco Depot
40055 sits outside Reddish Depot. This shed was constructed in 1954 to be the primary maintenance depot for the 1500v electric locomotives operating over the Woodhead Route between Manchester and Sheffield via Penistone. It also maintained the Manchester - Glossop/Hadfield electric units, one of which can be seen on the right of the photo. The Woodhead Route closed in 1981 and the depot closed in 1983. Although the buildings were subsequently demolished, their footprint is still visible on Google maps at this time.
Image: © Martin Addison
Taken: Unknown
0.21 miles
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Reddish Locomotive Depot, 1981
By 2015, this had mostly become a housing estate.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 22 Jul 1981
0.22 miles
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Darras Road
Off Levenshulme Road.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 17 May 2018
0.22 miles
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Abbey Hey v Ramsbottom United
A match in the North West Counties league. The Manchester to Sheffield railway runs just the other side of the fence.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 5 Feb 2005
0.23 miles
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On the shed
Class 40 40179 is waiting attention outside Reddish shed. At this time Reddish had heavy lifting gear as well as tyre reprofiling equipment. It was quite a busy engineering depot repairing and servicing locomotives for the North West area of British Rail as well as the base for the Woodhead line class 76 electric locomotives. With the closure of the Woodhead line in early 1981 the depot lost most of its work and was shut. The buildings have all been razed to the ground. Even the freight line that went by the depot has closed and been lifted.
Image: © roger geach
Taken: Unknown
0.23 miles
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Gorton Education Village
Gorton Education Village, a secondary-level school in the Gorton area of Manchester, England.
Image: © Steven Haslington
Taken: 18 Apr 2011
0.23 miles
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Shops at Ryder Brow
Opposite Ryder Brow station are a group of shops including an off-licence that appears to be both a Premier store and a Raja Bros store which I'd always thought were separate franchises. Also there is an Internet Cafe, a launderette and an Afro-Caribbean food and spice shop.
Streetview imagery from 2008 shows the internet cafe as a vacant property, the launderette as an off-licence and the end shop as being a part of the Manchester College of Customised Studies. By 2011 the college had closed. The cafe and Afro-Caribbean shop had opened by 2014 but the launderette not until 2016.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 17 May 2018
0.24 miles