The Shop on Greame Street 1972

In early 1972, in Manchester, when I was twenty years old and studying photography at the polytechnic, I rented a disused barber's shop on Greame Street, in the city's Moss Side district and, at weekends, operated a free photography studio there. It's where I made these portraits.

Bodleian Libraries Links >

Wesney Rowbotham. Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Vincent. Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Foster mother with children. Group portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Jazz Cole. Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Angela Loretta Lindsey, aged 8, with her brother Mark Emanuel Lindsey. Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Martin. Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Group portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Football fans on their way to see Manchester City play at Maine Road. Group portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Hell’s Angels. Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Antoinette Rowbotham. Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Peter with his sister Gillian and friend Peter Jackson. Group portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Kurt Preston. Portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Antoinette Robotham (later Anjee McPherson) and Neville Robotham (later Neville Davis), standing. Debra Caines, crouching left, her sister Tricia in pushchair, Crouching right Wanda Bendix. Group portrait from The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Portrait made on the street outside The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Looking at pictures in the window of The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

The Free Photographic Shop at no.79B Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Left Joanne McKenzie, middle Donna Duncan. Teenagers outside the tattoo parlour at no.79C Greame Street, adjacent to The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. 1972

Watching as new pictures are posted in the window of The Shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester. February-April 1972

Group portrait at a christening. Moss Side, Manchester. 1972

Caribbean food store, 79 Greame Street. The sign in the window reads ‘Henry Shop, Bread, Fish, Chow-Chow, Mackrel...’ Left-to-right: Sharon Henry, Michelle Henry, Pauline Crooks, Monica Crooks, Mrs Violet Henry, Freddy Crooks, Janet Henry, Sandra Crooks. Moss Side, Manchester. 1972

Left-to-right: Veronica Thompson, Sharon Richards, Moss Side, Manchester. 1972

Impromptu exhibition of portraits made in The Shop on Greame Street. Caribbean Carnival, Alexandra Park, Moss Side, Manchester. Whitsun Bank Holiday, 1972

Spectators at the Caribbean Carnival, Alexandra Road, Moss Side, Manchester. Whitsun Bank Holiday, 1972

Back to Photographs

Bodleian Libraries Links

Bodleian Libraries | Archive of Daniel Meadows, photographer and social documentarist (CMD ID 12752, 17418.17823) | Meadows' photographic archive of negatives and contact sheets, 1969-1986, Nov 2014 | College 02, Sep 1971-Mar 1972

Also:
Early material, 1970-3 Dec 2020 | Photograph shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, 1972-Sep 2008

Digital masters of photographs originally taken in 1973 at and outside the shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, 14-20 Sep 2008

Digital masters of photographs originally taken in 1973 at the shop on Greame Street, Moss Side, 20 Sep 2008

Born-digital components to digital story no. 5: The Shop on Greame Street, originally made in 2007, 20 Apr 2007-21 Aug 2013

Digital story comprising of audio recording of interview with Neville Davis, accompanied by scanned images from the photographic series 'The Shop on Greame Street', 1972, 18 Mar 2016

Born digital video recording of BBC TV broadcast titled 'Greame Street', transmitted on 16 Oct 2017, 16 Oct 2017

Bodleain Libraries Blogs:
Before Daniel Meadows’ Free Photographic Omnibus there was his free photographic studio, Moss Side, by Kelly Burchmore, archivist, 25 October 2019

Preserved in Time: A Snapshot of Moss Side in the Archive of Daniel Meadows, by Kasturi Pindar, postgraduate student at the University of Oxford, 10 October 2023