industrial stretford

Trafford Park was Europe's largest industrial complexes. The Ford Motor Company and the Westinghouse family were two of the big names to move into it. With it's American style roads of numbered Streets and Avenues it was a site for many Stretfordians to gain fruitful employment in engineering's epicentre.

The early morning shift arrives at Trafford Park

Hometime is a little more enthusiastic.

When the power station opened in 1903 it cost over £35,000.