Shakespeare Street .....

[liverpool annie]

Is Shakespeare Street Ardwick still there - does anybody know please ??

Annie 

[tony h]

Good morning Annie,
Shakespeare and Ardwick rang some bells. Shakespeare St produced no hits, but somewhere at the back of my mind I remember attending a meeting so I tried Shakespeare Community Centre and found this

http://www.mancat.ac.uk/community/shakespeare.htm

It is located on Shakespeare Walk M13 which could just about be Ardwick. That area was pretty well knocked about in the 60\70's so perhaps there is an echo of an earlier street name there but I have no idea really

The link to streetmap.co.uk works so you can see it's proximity to Ardwick

 
And i've just found it on 1915 Godfrey map
 

It was in the location of the Shakespeare centre, so there is an echo of the name. It ran between Stockport Rd and Plymouth Grove. Do you want a scan of the map?

Have a great day
Cheers
Tony
 

[Barbara.H]

Hi guys.

Tony has the right place for Shakespeare St. It was there up to 1970 or so, then replace by grim estate centred on Lauderdale Crescent. There was a huge pub called the Plymouth Grove Hotel on the corner of Plymouth Grove end of Shakespeare St that survived a few years longer; http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk   pic no. m19588

  Barbara

[cathaldus]

The only thing I remember about Shakespeare street was the old Victorian School Clinic!.  Many the school kid has come back through those dark doors with a head full of Gentian violet!!  Oh!  happy days!!

[liverpool annie]

Yes please to a scan Tony .... if you have time !! 

And thank you for the photo references Barbara ! ..... but is it still there .... or has it all been torn down ??

Gentian violet cathaldus ! ................ I'd forgotton about that stuff !! 

[tony h]

I don't want to nit pick but Gentian Violet...........................! 

Tony
 

And Annie a scan by my tomorrow if that's OK 

[Barbara.H]

I'm pretty sure its all gone Annie      Further south on Plymouth Grove is Elizabeth Gaskell's house which is preserved and has a blue plaque, but this bit was all redeveloped in the 70s- and is now being redeveloped again. I think this area is now the 'Plymouth Grove Village' referred to here:  http://www.grovevillage.co.uk/regeneration.htm.

School clinics aargh! Mine was in Levenshulme Town Hall as was, later antique market.. I was given the most unflattering NHS glasses in the world, not even the John Lennon sort - nasty white plastic frames    And as for the verruca treatment (involved a large scalpel/scraping implement) I'm still wincing! Never got nits though, maybe the glasses scared 'em off 

Barbara

[tony h]

Hi Annie.
Found the time to scan at last
Let me know if you want better resolution and I will send on e-mail

Cheers
Tony

p.s Should have said its below middle running left with a dog leg, to save your weary eyes

Oh no! my weary eyes, below middle running right with a dog leg

 

[liverpool annie]

Thank you my Friend !

Took me a minute to work out what the heck a dog leg was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

But that's great !! 

And thank you Barbara .... somebody was talking about Mrs Gaskell the other day !!