ASTORIA

Another building in Hyde left empty.. with little sign of it opening in the near future. I recently read that the multistory car park is to be demolished. The area has been earmarked for sometime as a place suitable for retail development.. I wonder just what Tameside Council have planned for the town in the long term. Without a full scale attack on T.M.B.C. I wonder what you would like to see done to improve our town.  

Construction of the M67 Motorway

Steve Hill sent us the following photos and note after the appeal yesterday about photos of the building of the M67.
They are fantastic !!
These are exactly the kind of photos that we are looking for..

"Here are a few more pictures of the M67 motorway under construction . Unfortunately they are not good quality as they are taken from Dennis Roylances film, the same film that the Ritz pictures came from but it does show the construction ".




Love this one. It shows the two tower blocks of John Grundy House and Chartist House and don't they look close together. It also shows the building of the DHSS building on New Beech St. Hyde Department Store (now Morrisons) can also be seen middle,far left.


The Astoria can just be seen middle,right of the picture.




Hyde Department Store can be seen top right on this photo.

Thank you so much, Steve.
I have been looking for photos of the construction of the M67 for years !!