This article consists of a series of nine images that capture the current state of the GC’s Meadowhall & Wincobank Station building and its surrounding changes. The first image shows the present condition of the station building from a southward angle. It is now in private hands, and the up platform’s ‘Meadowhall & Wincobank’ nameplate is replaced by a caravan behind the building’s wire fence. The photograph also indicates that the Blackburn Road houses on the left still exist, but vegetation obscures them.
A bridge abutment that was once part of the Midland line that intersected the GC line can be seen in the second picture. The former site of this bridge now contains a Travelodge hotel, and the car park takes up the rest of the space. A blue-striped grey building of Chesterfield Special Cylinders, which specialises in high-pressure gas cylinders, stands next to the GC line formation on the right side of the picture.
Graffiti adorns the line-side stonework in the third image. The wording on this artwork appears to be ‘PUKKA’ and is available for sale on websites like Amazon.
The fourth and seventh pictures show the front side of the station building that used to serve passengers. The patch that was once the entrance to the station shows the words ‘There’s No Scrap For Sale Here’ chalked between two windows. The fifth and eighth snaps offer a view of Blackburn Road/Grange Mill Lane and the M1 motorway behind the old Gilmours’ ‘The Sportsman’ pub. The pub is now a mobile/communications tower, and the building on the right is a “Quality Used Car Sales” business. Reflecting the state of buildings in that once bustling area, a low bedroom window on its right has been bricked up.
The sixth and ninth images depict the view from Wincobank looking south towards the gasometer and north towards the old A.J Lee Trubrite site. The GC station at Meadowhall & Wincobank is visible while looking towards the south. In the subsequent photograph taken six months later from an almost similar angle, the size of the available land on the A.J. Lee & Son’s former site, now derelict, is evident. Part of the land has been used for HTC’s crane enterprise, which overhangs the GC’s track-bed formation that is visible below it.
In summary, this photo essay serves as a visual reminder of the present-day conditions of the GC’s Meadowhall & Wincobank Station building, as well as some of the developments around it.
Posted by Image Archive 1 on 2020-02-15 12:06:46