Nostalgia: Celebration street in Glossop

Here is a picture of Bernard Street in the centre of Glossop, its terraced homes decorated for some long and now forgotten celebration.

But in 1964 times were changing for the cobbled street and the adjacent Edward Street.

Many of the houses were being demolished to build a badly-needed car park between them and what the Chronicle reported at the time, ‘a bus station’.

Most neighbouring towns had bus stations and our councillors were concerned that Glossop was missing out.

Our ‘bus terminus’ as they were called in those days, was the then oil-streaked cobbled square in front of the Norfolk Arms. The 125 Glossop to Hyde and Manchester, North Western Road Car Company service, started from there.

As did the SHMD number six which ran through Stalybridge and Ashton to Manchester.

Almost 60 years later, Glossop is still waiting for its bus station. Buses arrive and leave from Henry Street and the front of the town hall.

Both a million miles from the swish set-ups in nearby Hyde and Ashton.