Sunday 11 January 2015

Catch it while you can...... that footbridge over Whitworth Street West, soon to be gone

Now for anyone with a love of a slightly tatty but still unique piece of our recent history I suggest you visit that bridge which connects Deansgate Station with the metro stop at Deansgate-Castlefield because its days are numbered.

As part of the redevelopment of the metro at Deansgate-Castlefield it will be rebuilt.

The bridge has long looked very tired and the patchwork repairs to the sides did nothing to enhance what once was a rather striking walkway.

So there you have it, yet again Andy Robertson has captured a moment in Manchester’s history which will soon be no more.

Already a new island platform has been constructed along with additional trackway, and soon there will be a new staircase and lift down to Whitworth Street West and later the refurbishment of the stairwell near First Street to Deansgate Locks with a modern footbridge.

He took a series of pictures of the metro stop along with the railway station and I am minded with Andy’s permission to post these as the work down there moves on.

Picture; footbridge, December 2014 from the collection of Andy Robertson

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