March Meeting Teaser for March Meeting
Once upon a time long, long, long ago the River Dene gracefully meandered along Manchester’s Hanging Ditch, in doing so it established a vital connection between the rivers Irk and Irwell, at the northern end of Deansgate, on the city’s oldest thoroughfares. In Roman times, the days of Mamucium, historical evidence shows that there was a mansio on Deansgate opposite the Hilton Hotel, and Roman buildings on the east side of Deansgate on the actual site of the Hilton Hotel. Land on either side of the road was used for agricultural purposes until the encroachment of urban development, which accelerated in the 1730s, around the time when Edward Byrom built a substantial quay on the River Irwell. The area is predominantly characterised by commercial buildings, but it also contains a significant number of places of assembly, such as a church, theatre, concert hall, opera house, synagogue and Masonic temple.
The name Deansgate probably emerged in Anglo Saxon times and applied to that section of road between the present junctions of Cateaton Street and Peter Street. The name’s entomology could well be formed from Dene with the ‘gate’ part deriving from the Norse gata, meaning way.
In the month that the clocks go forward, will see the Society’s meeting taken back, by Keith Warrender, through the history of this familiar road which runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile in length. Keith last visited us in October 2013 The Kinder Trespass
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Network Rail’s plans for Greek Street bridge, Stockport
The bridge is on the West Coast main line, and sees about 400 passenger and 50 freight services passing under it each day, atop the bridge, rather surprislingy, is the Greek Street roundabout, as may seen above.
Built in 1958 the structure is made of about 200 concrete beams, was found to be “at the end of its life", and will be demolished. The building of the new bridge will require that from spring 2025, the Greek Street roundabout will be closed to traffic for approximately one year. Diversion routes for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and motorists are being carefully planned and will be clearly signposted.
More information may be found via. Network Rail, Stockport Council
