Stretford Oversize Photographs

Box contains oversize photographs of the Stretford area:

Trafford Park Road, 1902; Trafford Park Road, Kilverts Lard factory entrance, before 1905; Trafford Park Road Glovers Cable Works, 1902-1905; Trafford Park Road looking towards the entrance at Old Trafford and Throstle Nest Road, c.1906; Trafford Park Road with Lancs Dynamo and the CWS flour mill, 1906; Ashburton Road East with Trafford Park/hotel and corner of Third Avenue; Ashburton Road East with Taylor Brothers Steel Works and a vicar on a bike; Chatham Road (2 copies); Chatham Road and Wellington Crescent (2 copies); Barton Road and Wellington Street, looking towards Robin Hood Hotel and Urmston Lane. Wellington Street now leads to the “Arndale” shopping precinct. House on corner 110 Barton Road, photographed by F Melnotte, 18 January 1908 (3 copies); Barton Road near railway bridge, photographed by F Melnotte 13 December 1906 (2 copies, one split); Barton Road, Lostock, photographed by F Melnotte 13 December 1906 (2 copies); Barton Road, looking towards Urmston Lane, showing terraced houses and the Methodist Chapel on the left, photographed by F Melnotte, 21 April 1908 (3 copies); Council chamber and the installation of Alderman FW Bates, MA JP, as Mayor, 1934-5; 4 views of Old Stretford mounted on card: 1, The Pinfold, with road signs; 2, 221-229 Barton Road with a partially thatched roof; 3, the old Robin Hood Hotel; 4, 191 &193 Barton Road; Chester Road, with a large Hardy’s pub/hotel on the left and a tram in the middle of the road. There is a fork in the road behind the tram, c 1906; Chester Road featuring clock tower, c.1906; 4 views of Stretford mounted on card: 1, an aerial view of the Town Hall; 2, Chester Road seen from Leslie Street, Stretford; 3, another view of Chester Road from Leslie Street; 4, 1220 to 1228 Chester Road on the south-west side of the parish church, undated; Spectators leaving Old Trafford football ground after a match between Burnley and Sheffield United, 1914, Photo taken by F Ingham of Brooks Bar; Public baths on Dorset Street, Photo taken by F Melanotte 16 July 1907; King’s Road, September 1938; Borough of Stretford housing estates’ gardens competition 1934, 2^nd prize winner no 7 Matlock Road, Lostock; 1, ripped photo, probably Talbot Road, Old Trafford, 29 March 1924; 2, photo taken at “Fremont” opposite 107 & 109 Talbot Road, 29 March 1924; 3, photo taken at 72 Talbot Road, 29 March 1924; 4, photo taken at 45 & 47 Talbot Road, 29 March 1924; 5, photo taken at James Jones Schools, Talbot Road, 29 March 1924; First school clinic established by Stretford Education Authority in the basement of the old Council Offices, later Trafford Public Hall. Dr WJ Heslop FRCS Esq, School Medical Officer, Miss May Leach, School Nurse and Arnold Schofield, a junior clerk from the Education Department seen with 3 children, 1916; Pen and ink drawing of the offices of Stretford Local Board, Old Trafford, 1868-1887 (5 Windsor Terrace of 534 Chester Road) later a shop occupied by Burke & Co Ltd, Electrical Engineers; 3 photos mounted on card of the opening of the rebuilt children’s library, King Street, showing Mayor, Councillor F Matthews, Chairman of the Libraries Committee Councillor T Davis, Alderman W Wardle and Librarian Mrs Key, January 1953; 3 more photos mounted on card of the opening of the rebuilt children’s library, King Street, January 1953; a model village exhibition at the Young Readers’ Library, Stretford, undated; the de Trafford Window at the Town Hall, 21 June 1935; a front view of Trafford Town Hall, 11 May 1934.