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Morrisons, Crown Point, Saxon Street, Denton, Manchester.
The Morrisons supermarket at Crown Point, Denton, Manchester contains memorabilia dedicated to the hatting manufactories that once dominated the town of Denton.
These include terracotta artefacts carefully removed during the dismantling of the Booth & Moore's hat factory in 2003 such as the spheres on the top of the brick columns at the pedestrian gateway junction of Hyde Road and Saxon Street, friezes built into the external walls of the supermarket on Saxon Street and rosettes on the piers in the checkout mall.
Also inside the store may be found entire screens displaying the processes involved in the manufacture of hats and advertisements from past days encouraging men to buy hats.
This much modernised corner of Crown Point once contained a row of interesting shops (on the south side of Hyde Road), roughly where the Morrisons petrol station and car wash now stand, to include my favourite, the Levaggi's ice-cream parlour where I would sometimes be taken for a treat.
Saxon Street was also the turn-round point for the 210x trolleybus service from Manchester Piccadilly that would turn right at Crown Point, left into Inman Street, Saxon Street and Hyde Road before heading back into Manchester (the longer 210 service carried on to Gee Cross, Hyde).
If you have any memories of Crown Point and vicinity then please feel free to add them below.
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Morrisons, Crown Point, Saxon Street, Denton, Manchester.
The Morrisons supermarket at Crown Point, Denton, Manchester contains memorabilia dedicated to the hatting manufactories that once dominated the town of Denton.
These include terracotta artefacts carefully removed during the dismantling of the Booth & Moore's hat factory in 2003 such as the spheres on the top of the brick columns at the pedestrian gateway junction of Hyde Road and Saxon Street, friezes built into the external walls of the supermarket on Saxon Street and rosettes on the piers in the checkout mall.
Also inside the store may be found entire screens displaying the processes involved in the manufacture of hats and advertisements from past days encouraging men to buy hats.
This much modernised corner of Crown Point once contained a row of interesting shops (on the south side of Hyde Road), roughly where the Morrisons petrol station and car wash now stand, to include my favourite, the Levaggi's ice-cream parlour where I would sometimes be taken for a treat.
Saxon Street was also the turn-round point for the 210x trolleybus service from Manchester Piccadilly that would turn right at Crown Point, left into Inman Street, Saxon Street and Hyde Road before heading back into Manchester (the longer 210 service carried on to Gee Cross, Hyde).
If you have any memories of Crown Point and vicinity then please feel free to add them below.
The copyright for this image remains with denton_ian unless otherwise indicated and is displayed for enjoyment, comment and feedback. Please contact me first of all by FlickrMail if you wish to use images for your own purposes and I shall be pleased to assist.