Urmston Photographs

Aerial views: Urmston Library; Urmston Councillors, Flixton Smithy; bombing of Denstone Road; miscellaneous photographs. Lorne Grove, Urmston, undated; HMS Express, ‘E’ Class mine laying destroyer built by Swan Hunter in 1930s (Imperial War Museum catalogue no. A17867), undated; Shell-Mex and BP building, Trafford Park, undated; Mayor’s Sunday Parade, outside Burgon’s Ltd, Crofts Bank Road, Urmston, undated; Mayoral party, L to R: S.N. Penlington, T. Collier, T. Forsyth, T.E. Whitelegg, L. Watkins, Flixton House, undated; Trafford Hall with factory on R and railway in foreground, Trafford Road, Trafford Park, 1950s?; Allotment Inspection, Urmston, 19 Jul 1952; Opening of a house, Urmston, 1 Nov 1953; Lorne Grove prior to demolition, Urmston, May 1957; Woman receiving cup from Mayor and police officer, unidentified location, Urmston, 1958; Urmston Precinct?, Urmston, 1970s?; Opening of Hartford Community Centre, Urmston, 27 Mar 1954; Council meeting with Mr Taylor receiving chain of office, L to R Messrs. Bennett, Taylor, Cartwright, Watkins, Council Chamber, Urmston, undated; Very large pressure vessel, unidentified location, Urmston, undated; Flixton Smithy (demolished 1953?), Flixton Road, corner with Irlam Road, Flixton, Mar 1927; Officials at opening of building, unidentified, 1980s?; Church Road, North side, end of Wamsley Grove, Urmston, 1963; Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, Trafford Park, undated; The Penlington Fountain and group of school boys in uniform, possibly speech day , Flixton House, Flixton, undated; Irlam Ferry, Flixton, undated; transparency of man in hole through which runs a large pipe, Urmston? Undated; HMS Zebra, British Z Class destroyer, (Imperial War Museum catalogue no. A30796), 1945; Irlam Ferry with mayoral party on board, Manchester Ship canal, undated; Old Fire Station Moss Vale Road/Stretford Road (demolished for new motorway), boundary wall of Urmston lodge in background, Urmston, 17 Sep 1958; Urmston Library, Urmston, undated; Tree planting with the mayor, unidentified location, undated; M60 Motorway construction, unidentified location, Urmston, undated; high-level view of roads, possibly work in progress, unidentified, undated; formal photograph of elderly gentleman, unidentified, undated; mayor and mayoress with another man, all unnamed, writing on reverse faded, probably German, relating to ‘community centre’, (17?) September 1938; portrait of unnamed mayor, undated; aerial view of Davyhulme; mayoral opening of ? at Port of Manchester; group photograph (council?) with mayor and mayoress, January 1974, 2 copies, 1 mounted, 1 loose; foundation stone at George H Carnall Sports Complex, January 1974; mayor and a lady at laying of foundation stone for ? Higginson Court, undated; mayoral portrait, unnamed, undated; group of people in Dutch national costume (copyright held by Amsterdam photographer); debris caused by aerial attack, nos. 6 & 8, Denstone Road, Urmston, 8.30 p.m., 7 October 1940; aerial view of Worthington-Wright estate, with Alker Hall, 6 April 1935; aerial view of Davyhulme Circle, 1935; aerial view of Flixton, undated; aerial view of Urmston, undated; aerial view, Barton Airport, undated; mayoral group at tree-planting, in front of gable end of 190 Flixton Road, ARPS mentioned on front; photo portrait of Councillor Marie C. Sharp, J.P., Chairman of Urmston Urban District Council, 1932-33.