Plastered over cracks

The M&M discount grocery store on Clarendon Place closed a few months ago. A little later I noticed the cracks in the plastering on the side wall and took a photograph.


Since then the cracks have been plastered over and some of the signage painted over too. It would seem that the premise will reopen soon as a furniture store.

A wider view of the rear of the store can be seen on Hyde Daily Photo.

Frames Snooker Club

Frames Snooker and Pool Hall as viewed across the gardens of Chartists House.

I'm not certain but I think it has closed down. A taxi-driver I asked yesterday said he hadn't heard of it closing but when I tried to telephone the advertised number for the club it was unobtainable.

A sepia close-up can be seen on Hyde Daily Photo.

New Tarmac on Dowson Road

A few days ago I showed you Dowson Road awaiting re-surfacing and on Hyde Daily Photo I showed how the road looked on Monday morning when re-surfacing work began.

Today on Hyde Daily Photo you can see how the work was progressing on the Tuesday morning when the guys using the machine you see above were busy.


Nothing much else happened after Tuesday until Saturday morning when they were back again causing traffic disruption whilst putting down the top layer of tarmac. By the middle of Saturday afternoon they had packed up and gone and this is how it looked then.

Dowson Road Awaits

Dowson Road from the end of Garside Street last Wednesday. On Monday there will be traffic chaos as the roadgangs come in to resurface the road. They'll be working from 9 till 4 for a week working on one side of the road at a time and allowing traffic along the other side controlled by temporary traffic lights. The delays will be horrendous.

See how it looked on Monday morning on Hyde Daily Photo.

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Looking Up from the Bottom of Market Street

A view up Market Street showing the colonnade that shelters the row of shops leading up from the entrance to the bus station.

A closer view of the shadows in the window of Waterways can be seen on Hyde Daily Photo.

Hyde Cemetery

Looking here into the older part of Hyde Cemetery from a bench near the entrance.


This is a view along a path near the South-East corner of the cemetery. The patch of grass marks the site of one of three chapels that were built originally. Two have long been demolished and the one remaining chapel, which you can see on Hyde Daily Photo is now also under threat.

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