🚶🏻The Meander #2: Step across the Irwell into Salford's old Chapel Street

Just a few steps across the Irwell from Manchester's Exchange Square, Chapel Street in Salford awaits the developers

The crown-shaped rotunda of the old police station.

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If one street could symbolise the different faces of Manchester and Salford, it would have to be Chapel Street on the right bank of the Irwell.

Standing just a stone’s throw from Manchester’s most fashionable shops, much of Salford’s “old chap” awaits the march of the developers.

With a number of abandoned shops and empty pubs, a walk down here feels like wandering into a different era.