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Urban Avenue, ALTRINCHAM, WA15 8HS

These were the first, post-war 'Prefabs' to be built in Altrincham, to relieve the acute housing shortage created by German bombing - aimed at the nearby armaments factories in Broadheath. When first erected, in the 1940s, they consisted of naked concrete panels slotted together on site. More recently, they received brick cladding, which improved both the aesthetics and the insulation. They were on the corner of the street leading to the then Altrincham Gas Works, and rail tracks - set into the roadway of Moss Lane - periodically carried coal wagons from Altrincham to the Works, past their front doors.

Urban Road, Altrincham

In Stamford Park

The footpath leading into the north west corner of Stamford Park.

Special paving slabs were laid in 1990 beside all the street lights in Charter Road, Altrincham [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4540395] to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the granting of the town's charter in 1290.

The road's name commemorates Altrincham's borough charter, which was granted in 1290.

Most of the residents of Copper Moss will not know that their property lies on the site of the 1837 Altrincham Gas Works, which remained in use well after WWII. Coal wagons, from a storage depot at Altrincham Station, used to run along adjacent Moss Lane, on a branch line, to supply the plant with fuel. When the Works was finally demolished, heavy trucks spent months removing contaminated top soil before new construction could begin.

An L.R.V.set, based in Manchester, at a Station shared with B.R. I would suspect that the L.R.V's. run on ex-B.R. right-of-way??

Another variety of B.R. self-propelled stock.

A set of L.R.V.'s setting off back to Manchester. The B.R. tracks are on the right-hand side of the Platform on which I was standing.