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Clifton Road, MANCHESTER, M25 3HQ

The road is cut off from Bury New Road. On the right is "All The Shapes" which opened in 2015 as a Bar, Café and Gathering Place. http://www.alltheshapes.co.uk/about/ During the coronavirus pandemic lockdown they have only been able to offer a takeaway service. With restrictions due to be eased they are in the process of preparing a space with tables in the street where customers will be able to get together outside.

Sadly neglected former public house on Bury New Road.

Prestich is a convenient place to make a change from Metrolink to the excellent X43 Witch Way bus to Nelson, which runs along Bury New Road just a short walk from the tram station. If you should require a drink, the White Horse would be a good choice, with Holt's very palatable real ale.

The Istanbul cafe bar and restaurant was originally the Wilton Arms Hotel Image The disused building on the left was previously Barclays Bank.

A silver BMW heads northwards towards the M60 Junction 17 as the man in the red fleece sets off to cross the A56 Bury New Road to Warwick Street. Further south along the road is the curved façade of the 1930s brick building that houses the Cancer Research shop, contrasting with the angular 1960s Longfield Shopping Centre.

Situated adjacent to Poppythorn Lane. The date tiling on the pediment above the building façade indicates that it was built in 1900.

The A56 (Bury New Road) passing through Prestwich.

The Railway and Naturalist public house on Bury New Road, Prestwich. According to one of the posters on this site: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2006/02/10/lists_lancashire_pub_names_feature.shtml BBC Radio Lancashire), the pub's unusual name commemorates Alfred Wallace, a railway surveyor who pioneered a theory of evolution. He reached his startling conclusions, (which were acknowledged by Darwin) after noting the similarities and differences of species along railway routes. Note: An alternative explanation of the name has recently been sent to me. “The pub's name has no link to Arthur Wallace (who had no links with Prestwich) as suggested but is named (I'm told) after three famous botanists Richard Buxton, James Percival and John Horsefield, who used to meet there - and, who are all buried in the nearby Prestwich graveyard. This attribution would appear to make more sense. The pub was named 'The Naturalist' until 1870 when the railway arrived in Prestwich, and it acquired its present name”.