Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look now.
This week our main picture shows Heaton Park in 1906. Its previous owner the Earl of Wilton had sold it to Manchester City Council just four years earlier in 1902.

Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look in 2017.
This week it’s the turn of Manchester Road in Chorlton-cum-Hardy and the familiar landmarks of the former Gaumont Cinema, now the Co-op Funeral Home, and the former snooker hall, now the Sedge Lynn pub.

Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look now.
This week we look down Farmside Place, off Stockport Road in Levenshulme – an area located approximately halfway between Stockport and Manchester’s city centre 4 miles away

Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look today.

This week our main image shows soldiers marching along London Road in 1919 after returning from Belgium at the end of the First World War

Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look in 2017.
This week it’s the turn of Cheetham Hill Road, which runs from Corporation Street in the city centre to Crumpsall where it changes its name to Bury Old Road. Today it’s a busy street lined with shops, churches, synagogues, mosques and temples as well as terraced houses.

Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look now.
This week our main picture shows the junction of Cateaton Street and Victoria Street in the centre of Manchester.

Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look now.

This week it’s the turn of Lower Mosley Street, looking toward the bus station which once occupied the site of the Bridgewater Hall.

Our main image, which dates from November 1937, shows the Kwong Shang Lung store and neighbouring restaurant at the heart of the Chinese community.

Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look today.

This week our main image shows soldiers marching along London Road in 1919 after returning from Belgium at the end of the First World War

Welcome again to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Merseyside streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look today.

Our main image this week shows the opening of the new Coffee House bridge over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Bootle in December 1937.

Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look today.

This week our main image shows soldiers marching along London Road in 1919 after returning from Belgium at the end of the First World War