EAW002531 ENGLAND (1946). The J C Naylor & Co Ltd Emery Mills on Hyde Road and environs, Woodley, 1946

WW2 communal surface blast shelter.

WW2 communal surface blast shelter.

Gravel Bank Road. The sharp corner below this point has gone. The road now runs more straightly to join Manor Road just by Hyde Road. There is a remnant of the curve to the right in Hall Lane, which continues around to return back to Gravel Bank Road near its Hyde Road junction.

This field now has housing on it - Legh Drive runs parallel to the hedge boundary above this point.

The lift bridge remains but the pedestrian over bridge has gone.

Bankfield Road

Peak Forest Canal. To the top of the picture is goes to Ashton where there is a junction and you can turn left for Manchester or right for Diggle and the Standedge Tunnel, and on to Huddersfield. To bottom left it passes to a large set of canal locks at Marple then on to Furness Vale and another junction - turn right for Macclesfield or left for Buxworth Basin.

Manor Road

Railway Line. This section remains in place but is now used only for freight, serving a waste site and a concrete works both to the left. To the right the line passes through Woodley station towards Manchester. At the time of this image the line was a through line going to the left to Stockport Tiviot Dale and on towards Manchester Central. When originally built the line terminated to the left at Stockport Portwood but was extended in 1865. In 1980, motorway work in Stockport damaged the line there, it was closed and not reopened, leaving just the two small freight spurs in operation.

Manor Road

Hyde Road