Reblogged because we meet in Sacred Trinity Church every Wednesday to rehearse and I frequent this chippie often!
I don’t remember any references to pickled eggs in Lowry’s bleak industrial portraits of folk going t’mill, but maybe I wasn’t concentrating when they took us to Peel Park as primary school kids to see some of his work.
That’s why I’m starting a Lowry collection of my own, beginning with The Lowry Fish Bar in Chapel Street.
I’m fascinated to know what the gentle folk of that there London might think about the north west – and Salford in particular – having paid a visit to the LS Lowry exhibition at Tate Modern.
It’s no longer like that. Honest.
What is Lowry’s Salford like today?
Admittedly, Lowry’s former home in Station Road, Swinton/Pendlebury remains in a bit of a sorry state.
Elsewhere his name lives on over the doors of theatres, shopping centres… and chip shops.
Is Salford best symbolised by the magnificent metallic structure that…
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