Manchester - Photograph Studios, where were they?

[LizzieW]

Hi Migky

Thanks for that.  I know where we are talking about now.  One of my uncles managed a pet shop in Tib Street after WW2, maybe even before for all I know, I wasn't born at the time.

Lizzie

[tony h]

You've done it now Lizzie Pet shops on Tib St   that will start a few walks down memory lane. There used to be about 5-6 of them, perhaps more. After the baths or cinema on sat mornings we used to walk into 'town' to look around the toy shops - wistfully but the day was never complete without a trip to Tib St to look at the puppies, kittens, budgies parrots and all sorts of exotic creatures - sigh! life and pleasures were so simple then. I can smell the sawdust and hay even now

thanks for that memory

cheers
Tony

[LizzieW]

Hi Tony

Glad Tib St brought back some happy memories.  I've also looked on a thread re Manchester Maps that Migky started and now remembered the layout of Manchester as it used to be in the 1950s/60s. Thanks Migky. 

Oddly, I never went to the pet shop my uncle managed, although when we used to go round to visit, I did help him with his book keeping.  I loved arithmetic when I was young and so he gave me all the additions in his ledgers to do.

Lizzie

[tony h]

Hi Lizzie,
What was his name, was he a Smith or was he Walter

http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/web/pages/common/imagedisplay.php?&irn=62157&reftable=ecatalogue&refirn=45057&size=600x454

cheers
Tony

[LizzieW]

Hi Tony

Thanks for the photograph, I do know that website but didn't think to look there.  Now you've confused me -  not too difficult.  I don't think the shop was called Walter, more like something like X X (initials or name) Smith but I can't be sure.  As far as I remember my uncle ran the shop, so I assume he was a manager.  He did have a Ford car rather like the one in the photograph which he drove at a very slow speed.  We went to Wales in it one day in the 1950s from Cheshire and the usual 4 hour or so journey took us about 6 or 7 he drove so slowly.

Lizzie

ps.  Going off line for today.  I've been on jury service all week and still have to catch up on the ironing. 

[tony h]

  He did have a Ford car rather like the one in the photograph which he drove at a very slow speed.  We went to Wales in it one day in the 1950s from Cheshire

thought you were going to say the 1960's

cheers
Tony

[Aulus]

I seem to remember someone told me Knott Mill station is no longer there.

Knott Mill Station is still there and still operating, but it's now called Deansgate Station.

Nice coffee shop, with the twee name Love Saves the Day, just outside at street level (turn left on leaving the station entrance).

[wheeldon]

I'm 37 and when I was little my Gran used to take me to the Barrers and then on to the pet shops on Tib Street, there was only two or three then but I still remember the smell of sawdust

There are only two fruit and veg 'barrers' left now 

Sorry, I don't mean to hijack your thread.

 

[G_Feather]

I was looking through some very old family photos with this same business card like backing.
From the Photographic Studio of James Brown
41. Oxford Street
Corner of Portland St and Lower Mosley St
Manchester
The GPS on google maps seems to be in this area here.
53.476398, -2.242365