great painting of what was on the etihad ground
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bluwes
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Wrong way around Ancoats, you can see the start of Rowsley St bottom left on there. Stuart St is on the Veledrome side
this looks like I was right the towers was on the Etihad site
kippaxblue76
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I googled ''Phillips Park Road Manchester Map'' and got this
From that map it looks like the athletics stadium is now where the rest of Phillips Park Road was. Unless that is where it has always begun and ended.
MaineStandMoaner
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I thought the colliery was where the Etihad is now?
Mad Eyed Screamer
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I thought the colliery was where the Etihad is now?
From this map I would guess the colliery was on the spare open land in between the stadium and Alan Turing Way.
Take a look to the right where Grey Mare Lane is and the stadium is across from there, and would have covered the area just below where the colliery is marked.
Note there was a private canal linking up with the Ashton Canal (obviously since filled in) and you can also see Phillips Park Road (on the left) marked, to answer a poster further back on the thread.
I don't believe the stadium was built exactly over the colliery due to safety fears of subsidence.
I'm positive Gary J could add to the thread.....
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Gary James
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On my way out, but a couple of brief points to add -
Phillips Park road still exists but much shorter. It now ends at the junction with Rowsley St after the railway bridge near the Athletics Arena. It used to continue across the top end of where the athletic arena is, through the area where the City Store is on on to Forge Lane.
Grey Mare Lane carried on to what was Forge Lane, basically to the right of the eastern edge of the stadium. It's bridge over the canal is still there, marooned in the wasteland that's currently used as a car park.
Mill St was widened, moved slightly and extended to become Alan Turing Way, part of the inner ring road.
Stuart St power station was on Stuart Street, not on the stadium site. Part of it still exists if you go and look near the Velodrome, but the Velodrome was built on the main part.
The stadium site covers several street, factories and the pit buildings of Bradford Pit, but the stadium was positioned to avoid some of the shafts.
Lots more to say but hope this helps. Worth remembering that a pub on the corner of Mill St, roughly where the new bridge to the CFA is, was called The a United and named after MUFC. MUFC were based on Bank St, where the new BMX centre is, until 1910.
On Hulme Hall Lane photo/painting. The bridge is still there and the gas holder of course. The image was taken roughly at the corner where Vermillion restaurant is today. The restaurant and its car park are now on the left. The houses and shops have been demolished,though some of the streets behind still exist. Under the railway bridge and on the left is the fire station, then Philips Park. The road angles after the bridge (Mill Street/Alan Turing Way) and the power station is after Philips Park on the same side of the road. Opposite side of Mill Street was Johnson wire works (my gran used to live near there and as a boy we used to visit relatives in the area often).
Phillips Park road still exists but much shorter. It now ends at the junction with Rowsley St after the railway bridge near the Athletics Arena. It used to continue across the top end of where the athletic arena is, through the area where the City Store is on on to Forge Lane.
Grey Mare Lane carried on to what was Forge Lane, basically to the right of the eastern edge of the stadium. It's bridge over the canal is still there, marooned in the wasteland that's currently used as a car park.
Mill St was widened, moved slightly and extended to become Alan Turing Way, part of the inner ring road.
Stuart St power station was on Stuart Street, not on the stadium site. Part of it still exists if you go and look near the Velodrome, but the Velodrome was built on the main part.
The stadium site covers several street, factories and the pit buildings of Bradford Pit, but the stadium was positioned to avoid some of the shafts.
Lots more to say but hope this helps. Worth remembering that a pub on the corner of Mill St, roughly where the new bridge to the CFA is, was called The a United and named after MUFC. MUFC were based on Bank St, where the new BMX centre is, until 1910.
On Hulme Hall Lane photo/painting. The bridge is still there and the gas holder of course. The image was taken roughly at the corner where Vermillion restaurant is today. The restaurant and its car park are now on the left. The houses and shops have been demolished,though some of the streets behind still exist. Under the railway bridge and on the left is the fire station, then Philips Park. The road angles after the bridge (Mill Street/Alan Turing Way) and the power station is after Philips Park on the same side of the road. Opposite side of Mill Street was Johnson wire works (my gran used to live near there and as a boy we used to visit relatives in the area often).
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There's a plaque on one of the houses on Bank Street and as Gary says you can still see some of the old set up from the Stuart Street power station.
I don't know what it's called but there's a ground vent in the grassed area to the left...
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This picture is taken with Alan Turing Way behind the photographer and clearly shows the power station on the Velodrome site. The large house to the right is still standing and is the only thing that remains from this era on that street.
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Looking at the two pictures above does anyone think the bottom one looks as if the housing stock were improved any?
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Agreed the houses look better in the top image, the road looks in better condition aswell