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Shortly after departure from Victoria station, Metrolink M5000 3120 leads 3017 onto Balloon Street towards Shudehill as it works a Piccadilly bound service from Bury 18/04/2021.
The two ladies wait and look on at what was a very different and new thing here in Manchester, as Metrolink's AnsaldoBreda (Naples) 1992 built T-68 Firema tram 1009 climbs up the gradient on Balloon Street away from Manchester Victoria with a Bury-G MEX direct serice,
7th May 1992
The original Manchester Metrolink fleet comprised twenty six AnsaldoBreda T-68 trams, introduced in April 1992 and later supplemented by six T-68As. They were replaced by more modern and reliable trams in early 2014. One of the T-68s is seen here in Balloon Street, Manchester on 6th October 2007.
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This shows Balloon Street in the Manchester city centre. Balloon Street in the Manchestre city center.
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In Manchester, England, on August 10th, 2017, Metrolink tram tracks on Balloon Street, as viewed from Dantzic Street.
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Opposite the directory page containing the entries for the Manchester based Co-operative Wholesale Society, the major supplier of goods and services to the many individual retail Co-operative Societies is this full page advert reminding members to buy CWS 'own brand products'. These, of course, in theory accrued value to the Societies who had a stake int he CWS and so assisted in making more available for the all important 'divi' - dividend - that you got and accrued when you shopped at the Co-Op as a member.
The shopping basket is full of various Co-op brands such as Lutona Cocoa, Waveney canned foods from the Lowestoft factory, strawberry jam from Middleton preserve works, CWS 'Pelaw' shoe polish from Tyneside and the basket could even be made by the CWS as at one time they did have their own works!
I was entirely happy because this was exactly the kind of city weirdness I had come to Manchester to see.
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In Manchester, England, on August 10th, 2017, Victoria Station as viewed from the intersection of Corporation Street and Balloon Street.
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One of the many bee sculptures in Manchester.This one,by artist Judith Berrill,is located in Balloon Street.
You will find many opinions on the merits of all sorts of buses in the comments on images on Flickr. Vehicles which I remember being thought of in the seventies and eighties as the most anodyne and uninteresting are now, like ageing relatives of formerly dubious personal habits, regarded as eccentric treasures to be looked after.
Whether this bus will ever fall into that category I don't know, but it certainly might., For low-floor Ikarus bodies are not common in the UK, and the tall glazing gives this vehicle a certain attractive airiness, though the kick-up at the rear is a little awkward. Blue Bus, Horwich 38 (Y38KNB) is waiting at the stop outside the flamboyant entrance to F. E. L. Harris' Co-operative Bank, built between 1905 and 1909. This is on the corner of Manchester's Corporation Street and Balloon Street, the latter so named after an early baloonist ascended from the site in 1785.
Despite the writing on the front of the bus, I gather buggies of other colours were also permitted on board.
The bus passed with the business to Arriva, where the DAF chassis at least fitted well with their vehicle choice.
The picture is of poor quality, commensurate with the rather dodgy digital camera I had at the time.
The first retail cooperative store to suceed and flourish was started in 1844 in Rochdale, a town covered by this directory as some of the entries show, but Manchester was home to the Co-Operative Wholesale Society. It's roots go back to 1863 when a large number of individual co-operative societies came together to create a single manufacturing and purchasing organisation from which they could source many of their goods and services. For most of its life the CWS was just that but in recent decades it has moved into retail services as many smaller individual societies struggled and effectively sought strength in numbers via the Co-Operative Retail Group directly under the CWS.
However at this date the entries give a good idea of the extent and bredth of the CWS's manufacturing and this was just in the Manchester area. The CWS's factories and farms were spread across England and Wales, there being a separate Scottish CWS although some products, notably tea, was 'jointly' procured.
Some of the well-known CWS products are seen here such as the Crumpsall biscuit works and the Jam factory (preserve works) at Middleton. But you can see they also brewed vinegar, made margarine and jam, milled flour, ran cotton mills and had extensive fresh produce undertakings. They even made their own umbrellas in Ardwick.
Also seen are the allied concerns of insurance, funeral services, printing and banking.
Manchester Metrolink M5000 3097 after departing Manchester Victoria station crosses Corporation Street and begins the climb up Balloon Street to Shudehill.
A undoubted success, the Metrolink now 32 years old has expanded to a 64 mile network with 99 stations and is the largest Light Rail network in the UK.
* How Balloon Street was named:
On the morning of May 12 1785, Mancunians witnessed a balloon ascent in the city for the first time as Oxford-born James Sadler took to the skies.
The flight was made from the garden of a house on Long Millgate, which would later become Balloon Street.
Sadler was accompanied by a cat and landed in Radcliffe, he was the second person ever to make a balloon ascent in Great Britain.
Manchester Metrolink 3015 seen on Balloon Street, Manchester on a service to Altrincham via Market Street
Manchester Metrolink 3003 & 3017 seen passing each other on Ballon Street, Manchester on services to Bury and Piccadilly respectively
1007 'East Lancs Railway' of the T68 fleet, built 1991-92 by Firema, Italy, descending Balloon Street!
3023 of the M5000 fleet, built 2008-2011 by Bombardier, Bautzen (Germany) & Vienna (Austria), with a Manchester Victoria service from St Werburgh's Road
Original Manchester Metrolink T68 Tram 1017, climbing Balloon Street towards Shudehill Interchange having just left Victoria, with a Bury to Piccadilly Service.
Original Manchester Metrolink T68 Tram 1020, leaves the suburban rail system from Victoria Station onto street running, with a Bury to Piccadilly Service.
Original Manchester Metrolink T68 Tram 1017, climbs out of Victoria Station towards Shudehill, with a Bury to Piccadilly Service.
Seen stranded between Victoria and Balloon Street, Manchester due to part of the OHL supports snapping