Having taken the morning
shift keeping my dad company I gave the bus pass an airing in the afternoon and
made the short trip to Swinton town centre, which I found much changed from the
days when it formed the proud hub of the Borough of Swinton & Pendlebury (rather
than an outpost of Salford) and to which my mum would take my sister and me to visit
the library or “the shops”, in the earliest days by a splendid trolley-bus; the
trolley-busses have long gone, the library has moved twice, and the shops are
struggling, but thankfully the distinctive nineteen-fifties town hall, once futuristic,
now historic, remains looking as good as ever.
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