Indeed, he did not drive. I lived in Mottram and my dad and I got on the same bus as him when I was five.
What a great memory for you!
The building to the right of the church. I was wondering if that might be the old infants' school? I attended that school between 1968 and 1971, but it was demolished soon after and replaced with a new school nearby.
Because the Streetview camera is on the street and the 1958 camera is up the bank, the viewpoints are different. The next picture downhill on the Streetview shows that the stone wall on the left of the the 1958 image is still there, and the concrete fence continues uphill from the end of the wall in an area that is out of shot in the old picture.
Thanks @edwin_m - helpful notes.
Many thanks! Not a part of Britain I know at all. Looking at the maps and Google Streetview, it's changed a lot over the 60 years. Not many chimneys now and Spring Street seems to be little more than a pathway these days.
Somewhat OT, but my friends and I used to play hide-and-seek in LS Lowry’s back garden. He had a housekeeper to look after his daily needs, but his large garden was a jungle. He was well known and respected in the village of Mottram, and people would say ‘Good Morning, Mr Lowry’ and he would always politely reply.
Seems like, by comparing the old map with the aerial views now on the Nat Lib Scotland link, that the housing in c1958 has mostly been demolished, presumably in some sort of slum clearance intervention, but seemingly not replaced or redeveloped by much. I may be wrong of course as I am not familiar with the area. Spring Street seems to have been closed off at one end so serves little or no purpose other than as a footpath cut through.
