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Aldermary Road, MANCHESTER, M21 7QN

Another tree lined avenue

The road names on this estate are mounted high on lampposts. This one is for Callingdon Street. The house behind is recently modernised, with a painted rendered surface that was once brick.

This house in Leacroft Road has retained the horseshoe porch it was built with, and most of the decorative leaded glazing in the bay windows, but has augmented them with a rural scene in the window above the front door, unique along this road.

The shopfront, and appeal to use their Moston branch, at Image

This stretch of Barlow Moor Road had at least half a dozen monumental masons, serving the vast cemetery across the road. This was the largest, but is now closed. I understand that they did not adapt well to the changing population, not being able to offer Urdu, Hindi, or Arabic inscriptions. See Image for a thriving competitor in the same block.

A 1940s terrace off Derwent Avenue

Outside Image are several examples of their work. I think we see here an indication of the successes of integration; an indigenous tradition fully adapted to the needs of an incoming population, and an indication of why integration can work - we are all born, die, and love our families. I often wonder about such displays. The stones with finished inscriptions cannot be for sale, perhaps they are awaiting delivery. The central one here may have been rejected, or be waiting for a new plinth, which is inscribed "forever in our herts"

Tree-lined suburban street in Barlow Moor

One of King George's. There is no Regnal number on the Cypher, so it is almost certainly King George V. The box is identified on the plaque as M21 695D