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Then and Now: Cheetham

THEN: Waterloo Road and Halliwell Lane in 1915

Contemporary Cheetham is, arguably, only a pale shadow of its former self, and on close inspection found to be a little run-down by modern standards.

In fact, the older image showing Waterloo Road and Halliwell Lane back in 1915 - at the junction with Cheetham Hill Road - has an elegance sadly missing from an updated version distinguished only by wide open spaces.

Wide and cobbled roads clearly showing tramlines were once bordered by grand housing compared with the lacklustre scene we see today.

NOW: The tram lines have gone

By the middle of the last century, Halliwell Lane was renowned as the place to do the weekly shop, with a number of interesting-sounding retailers who helped give a cosmopolitan flavour to the district. They included Lorenzenes, an Italian ice cream parlour, a French patisserie shop called Rouetes, and Titantics the delicatessen.

Avid readers of our Then and Now series who lived in the Cheetham area at the time might also remember the many shops on Waterloo Road, including Timpson's shoes, the Post Office, a chemist, and several baker's shops.

The archive photograph is part of a collection chronicling the changing face of Manchester during the past 250 yearson a computer at Manchester Central Library.

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