Let's See Your Town:

Englishman

Here’s mine: http://www.scotphoto.com/englishphoto/categories/Towns/westonsupermare.html

Englishman.

ChuckD

My house is the third one to the right of center, at the second intersection.

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?T=1&S=10&X=1524&Y=23174&Z=19&W=2

Angharad

There is not much to see in Irlam, apart from the canal! So here are pictures of Llandudno & Conwy in North Wales I used to live somewhere in between the two towns

http://www.llandudno.com/photos.html

http://www.conwy.com/castle.html

LB

What's a town??

Never Squat With Yer Spurs On

Nathan Natas

Here's my place. I'm wearing the red carnation in my lapel.

. http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/tile/tile.asp?S=13&T=1&X=343&Y=3298&Z=10

- Nathan Natas, UADNA
(Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America)

Undecided

Hi Englishman,

Here are a few pictures from my part of town.

My back yard.

Across the street.

Lots of trees.

Ken P.

patio34

Undecided, that's beautiful--I love the autumn leaves! Where is this?

Pat
UADNA (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America)

Wow! I just checked out that terraserver site. Way cool!
Ok here's my aerial photo. Unfortunately, the house I live in is in the shadow of the 8-story Massee Apartment Building next door.
Plus, the site said the photo was dated Feb. 1993 so I wasn't living there at the time.
Great idea for a thread!

whatever...

Simon

Angharad has painted a very poor picture of Irlam ...

Ok, so it may not be great now but it's had it's moments:

We were visited by 1 (2?) kings and recently the queen.
We had the first commercial airport in Britain.
We did have a stately home / Irlam Hall (but unfortunately it was allowed to fall into disrepair and had to be knocked down)
The Irlam Ferry over the Manchester Ship Canal had one of the first jet-powered car transporters in Europe.
We had one of the largest steel works in the UK (Europe?).
There was once rowing boats and swans on the river Irwell and people came here for day-trips!

I know there are lots of "we had"'s and "used to be"'s but like so many places it was a nice place once ... then we kind of merged into Salford and it all went pear-shaped. I have a local history book showing the summer fetes and the band playing on the band-stand in the park (I can rmember playing on that when I was little before it was knocked down to make way for a skateboard ramp that laster a couple of years).

It's sad how it changed from a little village into a town and into a suburb of a city ... progress I guess ... by someones definition.

Last time my Dad was over I showed it (the book) to him and he said it made him feel old - seeing himself in a history book. Some of the school pictures of little kids included him and his brothers and another showed my Grandad proudly marching in his uniform with them running alongside. One of the old shopkeepers in another picture was a great uncle (I think - I'm very bad at geneology stuff) of mine.

It's sad seeing how people were ... imagining their trials and triumphs which are now forgotten and reminds me that whatever we do here and now till largely be forgotten by those in the future.

Sorry for turning this into such a depressing post ...